Check OS version in Swift?

IosMacosSwift

Ios Problem Overview

I'm trying to check system information in Swift. I figured out, that it could be achieved by code:

var sysData:CMutablePointer<utsname> = nil
let retVal:CInt = uname(sysData)

I have two problems with this code:

  1. What should be sysData's initial value? This example gives -1 in retVal probably because sysData is nil.
  2. How can I read information from sysData?

Ios Solutions

Solution 1 - Ios

For iOS, try:

var systemVersion = UIDevice.current.systemVersion

For OS X, try:

var systemVersion = NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion

If you just want to check if the users is running at least a specific version, you can also use the following Swift 2 feature which works on iOS and OS X:

if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
    // use the feature only available in iOS 9
    // for ex. UIStackView
} else {
    // or use some work around
}

BUT it is not recommended to check the OS version. It is better to check if the feature you want to use is available on the device than comparing version numbers. For iOS, as mentioned above, you should check if it responds to a selector; eg.:

if (self.respondsToSelector(Selector("showViewController"))) {
    self.showViewController(vc, sender: self)
} else {
    // some work around
}

Solution 2 - Ios

Update:
Now you should use new availability checking introduced with Swift 2:
e.g. To check for iOS 9.0 or later use can this:

if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
  // use UIStackView
} else {
  // show sad face emoji
}

or can be used with whole method or class

@available(iOS 9.0, *)
func useStackView() {
    // use UIStackView
}

or with guard

guard #available(iOS 14, *) else {
    return
}

For more info see this.

UPDATE: based on Allison's comment I have updated the answer, check is still runtime, but compiler can know in advance & can show better error or suggestion while you are working on it.

Other ways to check:

if you don't want exact version but want to check iOS 9,10 or 11 using if:

let floatVersion = (UIDevice.current.systemVersion as NSString).floatValue

EDIT: Just found another way to achieve this:

let iOS8 = floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_1)
let iOS7 = floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) <= floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_1)

Solution 3 - Ios

I made helper functions that were transferred from the below link into swift:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7848766/how-can-we-programmatically-detect-which-ios-version-is-device-running-on

func SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
        options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedSame
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
        options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
        options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) != NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
        options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
        options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) != NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending
}

It can be used like so:

SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO("7.0")

Swift 4.2

func SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == .orderedSame
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == .orderedDescending
}
    
func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) != .orderedAscending
}
    
func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == .orderedAscending
}
    
func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) != .orderedDescending
}

Solution 4 - Ios

Swift 5

We dont need to create extension since ProcessInfo gives us the version info. You can see sample code for iOS as below.

let os = ProcessInfo().operatingSystemVersion

switch (os.majorVersion, os.minorVersion, os.patchVersion) {
case (let x, _, _) where x < 8:
    print("iOS < 8.0.0")

case (8, 0, _):
    print("iOS >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.0")

case (8, _, _):
    print("iOS >= 8.1.0, < 9.0")

case (9, _, _):
    print("iOS >= 9.0.0")

default:
    print("iOS >= 10.0.0")
}

Reference: http://nshipster.com/swift-system-version-checking/

Solution 5 - Ios

Swift 5

func run() {
    let version = OperatingSystemVersion(majorVersion: 13, minorVersion: 0, patchVersion: 0)
    if ProcessInfo.processInfo.isOperatingSystemAtLeast(version) {
        runNewCode()
    } else {
        runLegacyCode()
    }
}

func runNewCode() {
    guard #available(iOS 13.0, *) else {
        fatalError()
    }
    // do new stuff
}

func runLegacyCode() {
    // do old stuff
}

Solution 6 - Ios

I made this Singleton for simple use, created an IOSVersion.swift file and added this code :

import UIKit

public class IOSVersion {
    class func SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(version: NSString) -> Bool {
        return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version,
            options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedSame
    }
    
    class func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(version: NSString) -> Bool {
        return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version as String,
            options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending
    }
    
    class func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: NSString) -> Bool {
        return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version as String,
            options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) != NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending
    }
    
    class func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(version: NSString) -> Bool {
        return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version as String,
            options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending
    }
    
    class func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: NSString) -> Bool {
        return UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare(version as String,
            options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) != NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending
    }
}

USE :

IOSVersion.SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO("8.0")
IOSVersion.SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN("8.0")

Thanks @KVISH

Edit Swift 2 :

if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
    // 👍 
} else {
    // 👎
}

Solution 7 - Ios

Details

  • Xcode 10.2.1 (10E1001), Swift 5

OperatingSystemVersion

Solution

extension OperatingSystemVersion {
    func getFullVersion(separator: String = ".") -> String {
        return "\(majorVersion)\(separator)\(minorVersion)\(separator)\(patchVersion)"
    }
}

let os = ProcessInfo().operatingSystemVersion
print(os.majorVersion)          // 12
print(os.minorVersion)          // 2
print(os.patchVersion)          // 0
print(os.getFullVersion())      // 12.2.0

Solution 8 - Ios

If you're using Swift 2 and you want to check the OS version to use a certain API, you can use new availability feature:

if #available(iOS 8, *) {
    //iOS 8+ code here.
}
else {
    //Code for iOS 7 and older versions.
    //An important note: if you use #availability, Xcode will also 
    //check that you don't use anything that was introduced in iOS 8+
    //inside this `else` block. So, if you try to use UIAlertController
    //here, for instance, it won't compile. And it's great.
}

I wrote this answer because it is the first question in Google for the swift 2 check system version query.

Solution 9 - Ios

Update for Swift 3.0+

func SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedSame
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedDescending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) != ComparisonResult.orderedAscending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedAscending
}

func SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) != ComparisonResult.orderedDescending
}

Solution 10 - Ios

The easiest and the simplest way to check system version (and a lot of other versions) in Swift 2 and higher is:

if #available(iOS 9.0, *) { // check for iOS 9.0 and later
        
}

Also, with #available you can check versions of these:

iOS
iOSApplicationExtension
macOS
macOSApplicationExtension
watchOS
watchOSApplicationExtension
tvOS
tvOSApplicationExtension
swift

Solution 11 - Ios

let Device = UIDevice.currentDevice()
let iosVersion = NSString(string: Device.systemVersion).doubleValue

let iOS8 = iosVersion >= 8
let iOS7 = iosVersion >= 7 && iosVersion < 8

and check as

if(iOS8)
{

}
else 
{
}

Solution 12 - Ios

Mattt Thompson shares a very handy way

switch UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare("8.0.0", options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) {
case .OrderedSame, .OrderedDescending:
    println("iOS >= 8.0")
case .OrderedAscending:
    println("iOS < 8.0")
}

Solution 13 - Ios

Swift 4.x

func iOS_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: NSString.CompareOptions.numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedSame
}

func iOS_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: NSString.CompareOptions.numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedDescending
}

func iOS_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: NSString.CompareOptions.numeric) != ComparisonResult.orderedAscending
}

func iOS_VERSION_LESS_THAN(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: NSString.CompareOptions.numeric) == ComparisonResult.orderedAscending
}

func iOS_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
    return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: NSString.CompareOptions.numeric) != ComparisonResult.orderedDescending
}

Usage:

if iOS_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: "11.0") {
    //Do something!
}

P.S. KVISH answer translated to Swift 4.x with renaming the functions as I am specifically using this snippet for the iOS app.

Solution 14 - Ios

Note: Available in iOS 8.0 and later. OS X v10.10 and later

var majorVersion: Int    { return NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion.majorVersion }
var minorVersion: Int    { return NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion.minorVersion }
var patchVersion: Int    { return NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion.patchVersion }
var myOSVersion:  String { return NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersionString        }

Solution 15 - Ios

Based on Matt Thompson's answer, here is a method with respective unit tests that works with Swift and Objective-c on iOS 7 and above (including iOS 9 which no longer let's you check the NSFoundationNumber):

+ (BOOL) isAtLeastOSVersion:(NSString *)osVersion
{
    switch ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion compare:osVersion options:NSNumericSearch]) {
        case NSOrderedSame:
        case NSOrderedDescending:
            return YES;
        default:
            return NO;
    }
}

.

@interface ANFakeCurrDevice : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *systemVersion;
@end
@implementation ANFakeCurrDevice
@end


@implementation MyHelperClassUnitTests

- (void)setUp {
    [super setUp];
}

- (void)tearDown {
    [super tearDown];
}

- (void)test_isAtLeastOSVersion
{
    id deviceMock = [OCMockObject niceMockForClass:[UIDevice class]];
    ANFakeCurrDevice *fakeCurrDevice = [ANFakeCurrDevice new];
    fakeCurrDevice.systemVersion = @"99.9.9";
    [[[deviceMock stub] andReturn:fakeCurrDevice] currentDevice];
    XCTAssertTrue([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion isEqualToString:@"99.9.9"]);

    fakeCurrDevice.systemVersion = @"1.0.1";
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"1"]);
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"1.0"]);
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"1.0.1"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"1.0.2"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"1.1.0"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"2"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"2.0"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"2.0.0"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"2.0.1"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"2.1.0"]);
    

    fakeCurrDevice.systemVersion = @"8.4.0";
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"7.0.1"]);
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8"]);
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8.4"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8.4.1"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8.4.2"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"9.0"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"9.0.1"]);
    XCTAssertFalse([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"9.0.2"]);
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8.4"] && ![ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"9.0"]);
                  
    fakeCurrDevice.systemVersion = @"8.4.1";
    XCTAssertTrue([ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"8.4"] && ![ANConstants isAtLeastOSVersion:@"9.0"]);
}


@end

Solution 16 - Ios

let osVersion = NSProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion
let versionString = osVersion.majorVersion.description + "." + osVersion.minorVersion.description + "." + osVersion.patchVersion.description
print(versionString)

Solution 17 - Ios

Also if you want to check WatchOS.

Swift

let watchOSVersion = WKInterfaceDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion
print("WatchOS version: \(watchOSVersion)")

Objective-C

NSString *watchOSVersion = [[WKInterfaceDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];
NSLog(@"WatchOS version: %@", watchOSVersion);

Solution 18 - Ios

Get current version of system and split it. So you can get major and minor version.

let sys_version = UIDevice.current.systemVersion
let all_version = sys_version.components(separatedBy: ".")
print("Major version : \(all_version[0])")
print("Minor version : \(all_version[1])")

Solution 19 - Ios

Most of sample codes written here will get unexpected result with extra-zero versions. For example,

func SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(version: String) -> Bool {
return UIDevice.current.systemVersion.compare(version, options: .numeric) != ComparisonResult.orderedAscending
}

This method won't return true with passed version "10.3.0" in iOS "10.3". This kind of result does not make sense and they must be regarded as same version. To get accurate comparison result, we must consider comparing all of number components in version string. Plus, providing global methods in all capital letters is not a good way to go. As version type we use in our SDK is a String, it's make sense that extending comparing functionality in String.

To compare system version, all of the following examples should work.

XCTAssertTrue(UIDevice.current.systemVersion.isVersion(lessThan: "99.0.0"))
XCTAssertTrue(UIDevice.current.systemVersion.isVersion(equalTo: UIDevice.current.systemVersion))
XCTAssertTrue(UIDevice.current.systemVersion.isVersion(greaterThan: "3.5.99"))
XCTAssertTrue(UIDevice.current.systemVersion.isVersion(lessThanOrEqualTo: "10.3.0.0.0.0.0.0"))
XCTAssertTrue(UIDevice.current.systemVersion.isVersion(greaterThanOrEqualTo: "10.3"))

You can check it out in my repository here https://github.com/DragonCherry/VersionCompare

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