iPhone & iPad
model identifier.

Apple gives every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch two names. There's the marketing name (the one on the box — "iPhone 14 Pro") and the internal identifier ("iPhone15,2") that the OS reports to crash logs, analytics SDKs, and developer tools.

The internal identifier is in the hw.machine sysctl on iOS. Two numbers separated by a comma: the first is the device family generation, the second is the SKU within that generation. iPhone15,2 is the 2nd SKU of the 15th family — the iPhone 14 Pro. iPhone15,3 is the 14 Pro Max.

You'll see this identifier whenever you're closer to the hardware:

• Crash logs and stack traces
• Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Bugsnag, AppsFlyer dashboards
• Xcode's "Devices and Simulators" window
• iTunes / Finder backups
• iOS provisioning profiles and the Apple Developer Portal
• The UTType-style metadata stored alongside your UDID

When a tester reports "the app crashes on iPhone15,2 but works fine on iPhone14,5", you need the lookup above to know they mean iPhone 14 Pro vs iPhone 13. Hence this page.

Common iPhone identifiers, cheat-sheet

Some of the most-searched-for identifiers, for skimming or Ctrl+F:

• iPhone15,2  → iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone15,3  → iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone16,1  → iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone16,2  → iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone17,1  → iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone17,2  → iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone17,3  → iPhone 16
• iPhone17,4  → iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone14,2  → iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone14,3  → iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone14,5  → iPhone 13
• iPhone14,8  → iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone13,2  → iPhone 12
• iPhone13,3  → iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone13,4  → iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone12,1  → iPhone 11
• iPhone12,3  → iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone12,5  → iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone12,8  → iPhone SE (2nd gen)
• iPad14,5  → iPad Pro 12.9" (6th gen, Wi-Fi)
• iPad13,8  → iPad Pro 12.9" (5th gen, Wi-Fi)
• iPad14,3  → iPad Pro 11" (4th gen, Wi-Fi)
• iPad16,3  → iPad Pro 11" (M4, Wi-Fi)
• iPad16,5  → iPad Pro 13" (M4, Wi-Fi)

Why does Apple use these names at all?

Internal identifiers don't get renamed when Apple ships a marketing rebrand. The "iPhone XR" and the "iPhone 11" both share the same processor family but ship as separate iPhone11,8 and iPhone12,* generations. The identifier captures hardware reality; the marketing name captures the model year.

For developers debugging device-specific bugs, the identifier is what you actually want to log — it's stable, machine-readable, and tells you which CPU/GPU/screen-size combination you're dealing with.