Am I Running On A User Device?

July 17, 2018 | 1 Minute Read

A common problem every iOS developer has to solve is finding out whether the app is being executed on a user device (via AppStore), a test device (via TestFlight) or a dev device (via Xcode). This is useful for deciding the level of logging, showing and hiding “admin” features, and connecting to the right backend environment.

After a few backs and forths the code I came up with for testing that is we came up with a solution which gave us a simple isLive boolean which we use throughout the app. Here it goes:

var isLive: Bool {
	if Device().isSimulator { return false }
	let isTestFlight = Bundle.main.appStoreReceiptURL?.lastPathComponent == "sandboxReceipt" // see https://stackoverflow.com/a/26113597/67667
	let isDebugConfiguration = _isDebugAssertConfiguration() // see https://stackoverflow.com/a/34532569/67667
	return !isDebugConfiguration && !isTestFlight
}

You can see in the comments where we got our inspiration. As for the Device().isSimulator part - we are using the wonderful DeviceKit framework.

Hope you find this helpful! If you have any suggestions for improving it, please ping me on Twitter @gimly.