From what I gather, the iPad is using iPhone OS, but with a different screen resolution from the iPhone and iPod touch. So many sites may have to change their user agent detection to adapt to the iPad.
So, can anyone with access to the iPad or the iPad SDK give us the user-agent string?
From the simulator, in iPad mode:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9(this is for 3.2 beta 1)Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10 (this is for 3.2 beta 3)
and in iPhone mode:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.20 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B298g
I don't know how reliable the simulator is, but it seems you can't detect whether the device is iPad just from the user-agent string.
(Note: I'm on Snow Leopard which the User Agent string for Safari is
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
)
It's worth noting that when running in web-app mode (using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag) the user agent changes from:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B405 Safari/531.21.10
to:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405
It seems to be general consensus that every mobile apple device, iphone, ipad, or ipod uses a user agent that contains both 'Mobile' and 'Safari'.
However, using the latest SDK (4.0.1) and reading the user agent on my rails server (using request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]), we never get the 'Safari' part.
No matter whether the request is being made from the simulator or a real device, debug or release, it always looks something like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7D11"
Just no 'Safari'. :-( So we have to use the 'iPhone' part to be sure. That is something apple does not recommend doing.
Safari on iPad user agent string in iPhone OS 3.2 SDK beta 3:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10
More info: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#technotes/tn2010/tn2262/_index.html
I think it is worth mentioning that you don't generally need to use the whole agent string, unless perhaps you find a reason where you need to tailor the website to a specific model.
You can check for iPhone, iPad and iPod in the agent string and cover all your bases.
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i))) {
appleMobileDevice = true;
}
else {
appleMobileDevice = false;
}
From iOS 13, can not find 'iPad', i use this js current-device, it work.
this core:
const iPadOS13Up = navigator.platform === 'MacIntel' && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1
https://github.com/matthewhudson/current-device/blob/master/src/index.js#L55
you can see you die type : http://matthewhudson.github.io/current-device/
