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deviceName not updating when user updates device name on device

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Summary


Version	8.1.4
Affected OS	iOS
OS Version	14.7

Current behavior

after changing the device name and then calling DeviceInfo.getDeviceName() I’m still getting the old value.

open app (device name reports as iPhone)
close app and change device name in settings to iPhone new
open app and call DeviceInfo.getDeviceName()
returns iPhone and not iPhone new

Expected behavior

DeviceInfo.getDeviceName() should report the current device name

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:11 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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mikehardycommented, Jun 13, 2022

No workaround to suggest, please investigate using standard troubleshooting techniques / debugging tools and if there’s a problem, we can merge and release a PR really quickly

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mikehardycommented, Aug 6, 2021

Ah ha! @chrisdrackett if you post a PR removing the memoization there, can happily merge + release

tangent: oh man, the semantic release bot is golden here @schie, thank you so much for that

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