I ran into this problem the other day as well. I just pushed a change to the library so the register() method will return the newly created users id if the registration was successful, otherwise it will return false.
So an example of how you get the users id now is:
Code:
$user_id = $this->ion_auth->register(......
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Hey Ben,
Sorry about not getting back to you sooner, busy week!