What is the iPad user agent?

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?

> Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10

(almost 10 years later...)

From iOS 13 the iPad's user agent has changed to Mac OS, for example:

> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Safari/605.1.15

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

)

From a real device:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 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

iPad 2 under 4.3.5:

>Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5

Mine says:

>Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; da-dk) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5

Here you go!

>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

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.

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/

From Simulator 3.2 final:

> 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/7B367 Safari/531.21.10

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;
}

Since Apple VERY HELPFULLY changed their userAgent strings in iOS, you can't use a regex for ipad/iphone reliably anymore.

I suggest a combo of a regex for older and current iOS versions (/i(?:pad|phone)|mac os/i) with and additional check for navigator.maxTouchPoints. maxTouchPoints will always be 0 on a Macbook, but greater than 0 on an iPad, iPhone (usually 5).

If you further need to differentiate between iPad and iPhone, you can work with window.outerWidth and window.outerHeight to get the viewport size and orientation. This will only help so much as some of the larger iPhones have viewports that are larger than the smallest iPads.

THANKS, Apple!

For iPad Only

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