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IOS Get User current country reliably

In my iOS App, I need to obtain the user current country.

I know that I can use CLLocation to retrieve the location and then reverseGeocodeLocation to get the country, but it will not work if the user doesn't authorize my app to get his location. I could maybe use (Locale.current as NSLocale).object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.countryCode); but I wonder if the countryCode change when the user travels or only when he manually change his settings?

Is it possible to retrieve this information from the current carrier operator ?

Solution

  • You can find the country code using carrier by using this

    CTTelephonyNetworkInfo *netInfo = [[CTTelephonyNetworkInfo alloc] init];
CTCarrier *carrier = [netInfo subscriberCellularProvider];
NSString *mcc = [carrier mobileCountryCode];