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Setup basics
Make your iPhone your own
Take great photos and videos
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Use iPhone for your daily routines
Expert advice from Apple Support
What’s new in iOS 17
Turn on and set up iPhone
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Set up cellular service
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Subscribe to iCloud+
Find settings
Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
Learn the meaning of the status icons
Charge the battery
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Use Low Power Mode
Read and bookmark the user guide
Learn basic gestures
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Adjust the volume
Silence iPhone
Find your apps in App Library
Switch between open apps
Quit and reopen an app
Multitask with Picture in Picture
Access features from the Lock Screen
Use the Dynamic Island
Perform quick actions
Search on iPhone
Get information about your iPhone
View or change cellular data settings
Travel with iPhone
Change sounds and vibrations
Use the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
Create a custom Lock Screen
Change the wallpaper
Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
Keep the iPhone display on longer
Use StandBy
Customize the text size and zoom setting
Change the name of your iPhone
Change the date and time
Change the language and region
Organize your apps in folders
Add, edit, and remove widgets
Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
Remove or delete apps
Use and customize Control Center
Change or lock the screen orientation
View and respond to notifications
Change notification settings
Set up a Focus
Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
Turn a Focus on or off
Stay focused while driving
Customize sharing options
Type with the onscreen keyboard
Dictate text
Select and edit text
Use predictive text
Use text replacements
Add or change keyboards
Add emoji and stickers
Take a screenshot
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Draw in documents
Add text, shapes, signatures, and more
Fill out forms and sign documents
Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video
Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos and videos
Lift a subject from the photo background
Subscribe to Apple Arcade
Play with friends in Game Center
Connect a game controller
Use App Clips
Update apps
View or cancel subscriptions
Manage purchases, settings, and restrictions
Install and manage fonts
Buy books and audiobooks
Annotate books
Access books on other Apple devices
Listen to audiobooks
Set reading goals
Organize books
Create and edit events in Calendar
Send invitations
Reply to invitations
Change how you view events
Search for events
Change calendar and event settings
Schedule or display events in a different time zone
Keep track of events
Use multiple calendars
Use the Holidays calendar
Share iCloud calendars
Camera basics
Set up your shot
Apply Photographic Styles
Take Live Photos
Take Burst mode shots
Take a selfie
Take panoramic photos
Take macro photos and videos
Take portraits
Take Night mode photos
Take Apple ProRAW photos
Adjust the shutter volume
Adjust HDR camera settings
Record videos
Record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
Record ProRes videos
Record videos in Cinematic mode
Change video recording settings
Save camera settings
Customize the Main camera lens
Change advanced camera settings
View, share, and print photos
Use Live Text
Scan a QR code
See the world clock
Set an alarm
Change the next wake up alarm
Use the stopwatch
Use multiple timers
Add and use contact information
Edit contacts
Add your contact info
Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact info
Use other contact accounts
Use Contacts from the Phone app
Merge or hide duplicate contacts
Export contacts
Get started with FaceTime
Make FaceTime calls
Receive FaceTime calls
Create a FaceTime link
Take a Live Photo
Turn on Live Captions in a FaceTime call
Use other apps during a call
Make a Group FaceTime call
View participants in a grid
Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
Share your screen in a FaceTime call
Collaborate on a document in FaceTime
Use video conferencing features
Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
Change the FaceTime video settings
Change the FaceTime audio settings
Change your appearance
Leave a call or switch to Messages
Block unwanted callers
Report a call as spam
Connect external devices or servers
Modify files, folders, and downloads
Search for files and folders
Organize files and folders
Set up iCloud Drive
Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
Use an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service
Share your location
Meet up with a friend
Send your location via satellite
Add or remove a friend
Locate a friend
Get notified when friends change their location
Notify a friend when your location changes
Turn off Find My
Add your iPhone
Add your iPhone Wallet with MagSafe
Get notified if you leave a device behind
Locate a device
Mark a device as lost
Erase a device
Remove a device
Add an AirTag
Share an AirTag or other item in Find My on iPhone
Add a third-party item
Get notified if you leave an item behind
Locate an item
Mark an item as lost
Remove an item
Adjust map settings
Get started with Fitness
Track daily activity and change your move goal
See your activity summary
Sync a third-party workout app
Change fitness notifications
Share your activity
Subscribe to Apple Fitness+
Find Apple Fitness+ workouts and meditations
Start an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
Create a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness+
Work out together using SharePlay
Change what’s on the screen during an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
Download an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
Get started with Freeform
Create a Freeform board
Draw or handwrite
Apply consistent styles
Position items on a board
Search Freeform boards
Share and collaborate
Delete and recover boards
Get started with Health
Fill out your Health Details
Intro to Health data
View your health data
Share your health data
View health data shared by others
Download health records
View health records
Monitor your walking steadiness
Log menstrual cycle information
View menstrual cycle predictions and history
Track your medications
Learn more about your medications
Log your state of mind
Take a mental health assessment
Set up a schedule for a Sleep Focus
Turn off alarms and delete sleep schedules
Add or change sleep schedules
Turn Sleep Focus on or off
Change your wind down period, sleep goal, and more
View your sleep history
Check your headphone levels
Use audiogram data
Register as an organ donor
Back up your Health data
Intro to Home
Upgrade to the new Home architecture
Set up accessories
Control accessories
Control your home using Siri
Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
Set up HomePod
Control your home remotely
Create and use scenes
Use automations
Set up security cameras
Use Face Recognition
Unlock your door with a home key
Configure a router
Invite others to control accessories
Add more homes
Get music, movies, and TV shows
Get ringtones
Manage purchases and settings
Get started with Journal
Write in your journal
Review your past journal entries
Change Journal settings
Magnify nearby objects
Change settings
Detect people around you
Detect doors around you
Receive image descriptions of your surroundings
Read aloud text and labels around you
Set up shortcuts for Detection Mode
Add and remove email accounts
Set up a custom email domain
Check your email
Unsend email with Undo Send
Reply to and forward emails
Save an email draft
Add email attachments
Download email attachments
Annotate email attachments
Set email notifications
Search for email
Organize email in mailboxes
Flag or block emails
Filter emails
Use Hide My Email
Use Mail Privacy Protection
Change email settings
Delete and recover emails
Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
Print emails
Get travel directions
Select other route options
Find stops along your route
View a route overview or a list of turns
Change settings for spoken directions
Get driving directions
Get directions to your parked car
Set up electric vehicle routing
Report traffic incidents
Get cycling directions
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Delete recent directions
Get traffic and weather info
Estimate travel time and ETA
Download offline maps
Search for places
Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
Get information about places
Mark places
Share places
Rate places
Save favorite places
Explore new places with Guides
Organize places in My Guides
Clear location history
Look around places
Take Flyover tours
Find your Maps settings
Measure dimensions
View and save measurements
Measure a person’s height
Use the level
Set up Messages
About iMessage
Send and reply to messages
Unsend and edit messages
Keep track of messages
Forward and share messages
Group conversations
Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
Collaborate on projects
Use iMessage apps
Take and edit photos or videos
Share photos, links, and more
Send stickers
Request, send, and receive payments
Send and receive audio messages
Animate messages
Send and save GIFs
Turn read receipts on or off
Change notifications
Block, filter, and report messages
Delete messages and attachments
Recover deleted messages
View albums, playlists, and more
Show song credits and lyrics
Queue up your music
Listen to broadcast radio
Subscribe to Apple Music
Play music together in the car with iPhone
Listen to lossless music
Listen to Dolby Atmos music
Apple Music Sing
Find new music
Add music and listen offline
Get personalized recommendations
Listen to radio
Search for music
Create playlists
See what your friends are listening to
Use Siri to play music
Change the way music sounds
Get started with News
Use News widgets
See news stories chosen just for you
Read stories
Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
Listen to Apple News Today
Subscribe to Apple News+
Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues
Use Offline Mode to read downloaded News content
Manually download Apple News+ issues
Listen to audio stories
Solve puzzles in Apple News
Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles
Solve Quartiles puzzles
Search for news stories
Save stories in News for later
Subscribe to individual news channels
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Add or remove accounts
Create and format notes
Draw or write
Add photos, videos, and more
Scan text and documents
Work with PDFs
Create Quick Notes
Search notes
Organize in folders
Organize with tags
Use Smart Folders
Export or print notes
Change Notes settings
Make a call
View and delete the call history
Answer or decline incoming calls
While on a call
Have a conference or three-way call on iPhone
Set up voicemail
Check voicemail
Change voicemail greeting and settings
Select ringtones and vibrations
Make calls using Wi-Fi
Set up call forwarding
Set up call waiting
Block or avoid unwanted calls
View photos and videos
Play videos and slideshows
Delete or hide photos and videos
Edit photos and videos
Trim video length and adjust slow motion
Edit Cinematic mode videos
Edit Live Photos
Edit portraits
Use photo albums
Edit, share, and organize albums
Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
Make stickers from your photos
Duplicate and copy photos and videos
Merge duplicate photos and videos
Search for photos
Identify people and pets
Browse photos by location
Share photos and videos
Share long videos
View photos and videos shared with you
Watch memories
Personalize your memories
Manage memories and featured photos
Use iCloud Photos
Create shared albums
Add and remove people in a shared album
Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
Import and export photos and videos
Print photos
Find podcasts
Listen to podcasts
Follow your favorite podcasts
Use the Podcasts widget
Organize your podcast library
Download, save, or share podcasts
Subscribe to podcasts
Listen to subscriber-only content
Change download settings
Make a grocery list
Add items to a list
Edit and manage a list
Search and organize lists
Work with templates
Use Smart Lists
Print reminders
Use the Reminders widget
Change Reminders settings
Browse the web
Search for websites
Customize your Safari settings
Change the layout
Use Safari profiles
Open and close tabs
Organize your tabs
View your Safari tabs from another Apple device
Share Tab Groups
Use Siri to listen to a webpage
Bookmark favorite webpages
Save pages to a Reading List
Find links shared with you
Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
Automatically fill in forms
Get extensions
Hide ads and distractions
Clear your cache and cookies
Browse the web privately
Use passkeys in Safari
Check stocks
Manage multiple watchlists
Read business news
Add earnings reports to your calendar
Use a Stocks widget
Translate text, voice, and conversations
Translate text in apps
Translate with the camera view
Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, or an Apple TV channel
Add your TV provider
Get shows, movies, and more
Watch sports
Watch Major League Soccer with MLS Season Pass
Control playback
Manage your library
Change the settings
Make a recording
Play it back
Edit or delete a recording
Keep recordings up to date
Organize recordings
Search for or rename a recording
Share a recording
Duplicate a recording
Keep cards and passes in Wallet
Set up Apple Pay
Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
Track your orders
Use Apple Cash
Use Apple Card
Use Savings
Pay for transit
Access your home, hotel room, and vehicle
Add identity cards
Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
Check your Apple Account balance
Use Express Mode
Organize your Wallet
Remove cards or passes
Check the weather
Check the weather in other locations
View weather maps
Manage weather notifications
Use Weather widgets
Learn the weather icons
Find out what Siri can do
Tell Siri about yourself
Have Siri announce calls and notifications
Add Siri Shortcuts
About Siri Suggestions
Use Siri in your car
Change Siri settings
Contact emergency services
Use Emergency SOS via satellite
Request Roadside Assistance via satellite
Set up and view your Medical ID
Use Check In
Manage Crash Detection
Reset privacy and security settings in an emergency
Set up Family Sharing
Add Family Sharing members
Remove Family Sharing members
Share subscriptions
Share purchases
Share locations with family and locate lost devices
Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
Set up parental controls
Set up a child’s device
Get started with Screen Time
Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
Set up Screen Time
Set communication and safety limits and block inappropriate content
Set up Screen Time for a family member
Charging cable
Power adapters
MagSafe chargers and battery packs
MagSafe cases and sleeves
Qi-certified wireless chargers
Use AirPods
Use EarPods
Apple Watch
Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
Connect to a display with a cable
HomePod and other wireless speakers
Pair Magic Keyboard
Enter characters with diacritical marks
Switch between keyboards
Use shortcuts
Choose an alternative keyboard layout
Change typing assistance options
External storage devices
Bluetooth accessories
Share your internet connection
Allow phone calls on your iPad and Mac
Use iPhone as a webcam
Hand off tasks between devices
Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPhone
Start SharePlay instantly
Use AirDrop to send items
Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
Transfer files between devices
Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
Transfer files or sync content with the Finder or iTunes
Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
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Connect to CarPlay
Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
Get turn-by-turn directions
Change the map view
Make phone calls
View your calendar
Send and receive text messages
Announce incoming text messages
Play podcasts
Play audiobooks
Listen to news stories
Control your home
Use other apps with CarPlay
Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
Change settings in CarPlay
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Turn on accessibility features for setup
Change Siri accessibility settings
Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
Change color and brightness
Make text easier to read
Reduce onscreen motion
Customize per-app visual settings
Hear what’s on the screen or typed
Hear audio descriptions
Turn on and practice VoiceOver
Change your VoiceOver settings
Use VoiceOver gestures
Operate iPhone when VoiceOver is on
Control VoiceOver using the rotor
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Write with your finger
Keep the screen off
Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
Use a braille display
Type braille on the screen
Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
Use VoiceOver for images and videos
Use VoiceOver in apps
Use AssistiveTouch
Adjust how iPhone responds to your touch
Use Reachability
Auto-answer calls
Turn off vibration
Change Face ID and attention settings
Use Voice Control
Adjust the side or Home button
Use Apple TV Remote buttons
Adjust pointer settings
Adjust keyboard settings
Control iPhone with an external keyboard
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Control several devices with one switch
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Adjust audio settings
Play background sounds
Display subtitles and captions
Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
Get live captions of spoken audio
Type to speak
Record a Personal Voice
Lock iPhone to one app with Guided Access
Use built-in privacy and security protections
Set a passcode
Set up Face ID
Set up Touch ID
Control access to information on the Lock Screen
Keep your Apple ID secure
Use passkeys to sign in to apps and websites
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Automatically fill in strong passwords
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View your passwords and related information
Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
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Manage information sharing with Safety Check
Control app tracking permissions
Control the location information you share
Control access to information in apps
Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
Control access to hardware features
Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
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Use Stolen Device Protection
Receive warnings about sensitive content
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Turn iPhone on or off
Force restart iPhone
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Restore purchased and deleted items
Sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone
Erase iPhone
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Customize your Safari settings on iPhone

Customize your start page

When you open a new tab, you begin on your start page. You can customize your start page with new background images and options.

The start page in Safari, which shows favorite websites, websites saved to the Reading List, and websites open on your other Apple device. At the bottom of the screen is the Edit button.

Scroll to the bottom of the page, then tap Edit.

Choose the options you want to appear on your start page:

Favorites: Display shortcuts to your favorite bookmarked websites. See Bookmark a favorite website .

Frequently Visited: Go straight to the websites you visit most.

Shared with You: See links shared with you in Messages, Mail, and more. See Find links shared with you .

Privacy Report: Stay updated on how many trackers and websites Safari blocked from tracking you. See View the Privacy Report .

Siri Suggestions: As you search, allow websites shared in Calendar and other apps to appear.

Reading List: Show webpages currently in your Reading List. See Add the current webpage to your Reading List .

Recently Closed Tabs: Go back to tabs you previously closed.

iCloud Tabs: Show open tabs from other Apple devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID and Safari is turned on in iCloud settings or preferences. See Organize your tabs with Tab Groups .

Note: Your custom start page settings are updated on all your Apple devices where you have Use Start Page on All Devices turned on, and you’re signed in with the same Apple ID using two-factor authentication .

Change the text size for a website on Safari

Use the Page Settings button to increase or decrease the text size.

Tap the large A to increase the font size or the small A to decrease it.

Change the display controls for a website on Safari

You can hide the search field, switch to Reader, and more.

Hide the search field: Tap Hide Toolbar (tap the bottom of the screen to get it back).

See a streamlined view of the webpage: Tap Show Reader (if available).

To return to the normal view, tap Hide Reader.

See what the webpage looks like on a desktop computer: Tap Request Desktop Website (if available).

You can also adjust Safari settings in Accessibility settings. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Per-App Settings. Tap Add App, choose Safari, then tap Safari to adjust the settings.

Choose where to save downloads

When you download a file in Safari, you can choose whether to save it to iCloud or on your iPhone.

iCloud Drive: Select this option to save downloads to the Downloads folder in iCloud Drive. This allows you to access the downloaded file on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID .

On My iPhone: Select this option to save downloads to the Downloads folder on your iPhone.

Share website passwords with a group

You can create a group of trusted contacts and share a set of passwords. Passwords stay up to date for everyone in the group, and you can remove someone at any time.

See Create shared password groups .

Adjust privacy settings for Safari

You can choose what privacy settings you want across Safari, and create individual exceptions for websites. See Browse privately .

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How to Change User Agents in Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox

Discover how to change user agents in web browsers for testing purposes. Learn how to ensure your campaigns are running properly and target the right audience.

Whether you are an SEO pro, marketer, or web developer, you might often need to change your browser’s user-agent to test different things.

For example, imagine you’re running a MAC-OS-specific campaign. To find out if your campaign is running properly and not targeting Linux users, changing the user-agent of your browser can help you test.

Changing user-agents is almost a daily task for web developers, as they need to test how websites behave in different browsers and devices.

What Is A User-Agent?

A user-agent is an HTTP request header string identifying browsers, applications, or operating systems that connect to the server.

Browsers have user-agents, and so do bots and crawlers such as search engines Googlebot , Google AdSense, etc.

Here, we will learn how to change your browser’s user-agent.

The process is called user-agent spoofing .

Spoofing occurs when a browser or client sends a different user-agent HTTP header from what it is and fakes it.

While the term may be alarming, this is not a dangerous activity and will not cause you any problems. (Feel free to spoof your user-agent as much as you want.)

How To Change Your User-Agent On Chrome & Edge

Since Microsoft Edge is now using Chromium , the settings for both Chrome and Edge are the same.

1. Right Click Anywhere On Webpage > Inspect

Alternatively, you can use CTR+Shift+I on Windows and Cmd + Opt +J on Mac.

2. Choose More Tools > Network Conditions

Screen new.

Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner.

3. Uncheck Select Automatically Checkbox

4. Choose One Among The Built-In User-Agents List

If the user-agent you want doesn’t exist, you can enter any string you want on the field below the list.

For example, you can enter the following (Googlebot’s user-agent) into the custom field:

This may be useful for SEO professionals to identify if there is a cloaking on the website where the webpage shows specific content to Googlebot and different content to website visitors.

Alternatively, you can use the Chrome extension User-Agent Switcher and Manager .

That said, I try not to use browser extensions when the browser can perform the action I want. This is to avoid overloading the browser with add-ons.

Also, extensions have a habit of breaking websites unexpectedly sometimes.

While you might think the website you visited has an issue, the root cause can be one of the add-ons you’re using.

How To Change User-Agent On Safari

1. go to preferences.

2. Enable Develop Menu Bar

Go to Advanced and check Show Develop menu in menu bar .

3. Navigate To Develop > User-Agent

You can again select from a predefined list or enter a custom user-agent string by choosing “Other…”

How To Change User-Agent In Firefox

In Firefox, it is possible to change user-agents via the browser’s built-in settings.

However, it is not as user-friendly as on Chrome or Safari.

It is a real pain to use the browser’s built-in feature.

Instead, we will use a Firefox add-on called User-Agent Switcher .

After installing the add-on, you will see an icon in the upper right corner.

You can select one of the predefined user-agents or enter a custom user-agent by clicking on the pen icon below.

Another extension you can use is User-Agent Switcher and Manager .

User-Agents Are Easy To Spoof

The user-agents are easy to spoof, and anyone can use these easy tricks to alter them.

This feature is useful for testing web apps against various devices, especially when the HTML is different for mobile or tablet devices.

It is a cost-efficient way to test websites as one doesn’t need to have many physical devices to be able to test.

However, certain issues may appear on the real device but not when testing by changing the user agent and using a browser emulator.

In that case, if you want to test on multiple real devices, I suggest using Browserstack , which offers testing opportunities on almost all devices.

What is a user agent?

User agent is a HTTP request header string identifying browser, application, operating system which connects to the server. Not only browsers have user agent but also bots, search engines crawlers such as Googlebot, Google Adsense etc. which are not browsers.

What is user-agent spoofing?

When browser or any client sends different user-agent HTTP header from what they are and fakes it that is called spoofing .

How does changing the user-agent help SEO professionals?

SEO professionals may find changing the user-agent to be a critical part of their audit process. It is beneficial for several reasons:

Identifying cloaking issues : By mimicking different user-agents, such as Googlebot, SEO experts can uncover whether a website presents different content to search engines than users, which violates search engine guidelines.
Compatibility: It ensures web applications are compatible across various browsers and devices.
User Experience : Developers can optimize the user experience by understanding how content is rendered on different systems.
Debugging: Changing the user-agent can help pinpoint browser-specific issues.
Quality Assurance: It’s an essential step in quality assurance and helps maintain the integrity and performance of a website.

Can changing your browser’s user-agent pose a security risk?

No, changing your browser’s user-agent, commonly called user-agent spoofing, does not inherently pose a security risk. While the term “spoofing” might suggest malicious intent, this practice in the context of user-agents is harmless. It is a tool for developers and marketers to test how websites and applications interact with various devices and browsers.

More resources:

An Introduction to Rendering For SEO
Using Chrome DevTools To Diagnose Site Issues In An Audit
7 Essential SEO Browser Extensions & Plugins

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In the early days of the internet, websites didn't care what browser you used, because most pages were static. But today's dynamic websites often adapt to the operating system, browser, or screen size your device uses.

They typically do so through a bit of text called the user agent. So, let's look at what a user agent is, what it does, and how you can make your browser pretend to be another browser or another device.

What Is a User Agent?

A user agent is a string (line of text) that your browser sends to websites when you access them. It basically serves to tell the website that you're using the Chrome browser on Windows 10, for example.

If you'd like, you can see your user agent by visiting a site like WhatIsMyBrowser .

User agents are important because sites can use them to modify the content they send to your browser. For example, if you visit most modern sites in Internet Explorer 6, you'll see a message that you need to upgrade your browser for proper compatibility. User agents also come into play when browsing on a mobile device, so websites know to show you the mobile-friendly version of a page.

As it turns out, your user agent isn't permanent. It's easy to change if you know where to look, and some extensions let you change it in just a few clicks.

How to Change Your User Agent

Let's look at how to change your user agent in major browsers. This will let you trick websites into thinking you're on a different type of computer or browser.

Change Your User Agent in Chrome

Open Chrome's Developer Tools by right-clicking anywhere and choosing Inspect , hitting Ctrl + Shift + I , or by pressing F12 .

At the bottom of the resulting panel, you should see a section with the tabs Console , Network conditions , and What's New . Press Esc to show this if you don't see it.

On the Network conditions tab, uncheck Select automatically and you can then choose a new user agent from the list. Refresh to update the page with the new agent.

Note that this setting will revert back to normal when you close the developer panel, and only applies to your current tab.

For more control, check out Google's official User-Agent Switcher for Chrome extension . This lets you easily switch your user agent, including setting certain sites to use a different agent all the time.

Change Your User Agent in Firefox

The process to change your user agent in Firefox is clunky, as it requires you to manually paste a new user agent string. You're better off using an add-on to easily change your user agent.

User-Agent Switcher by Alexander Schlarb is well-reviewed and easy to use.

Change Your User Agent in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge uses a similar setup to Chrome for changing your user agent. Press F12 or right-click on an empty spot of the page and choose Inspect element to open the developer tools window.

Along the top bar, select the Emulation tab---you may need to click the dropdown arrow to show it if it's hidden.

Here, change the User agent string box to trick the website into thinking you're something else. You can also change Browser profile from Desktop to Windows Phone to view the mobile version of webpages. Like Chrome, this only applies to the current tab while the developer tools panel is open.

Unfortunately, there are no extensions that easily change your user agent for the current version of Edge. When Microsoft's revised browser launches, this will hopefully change.

Change Your User Agent in Safari

You'll need to enable the hidden Develop menu in Safari before you can change your user agent. To do this, visit Safari > Preferences and go to the Advanced tab.

There, check the box labeled Show Develop menu in menu bar .

Next, select Develop > User Agent and pick the option you'd like. Safari even lets you choose Other to specify your own user agent string.

Request Desktop Site on Android and iPhone

While there's no quick toggle to change your user agent in the mobile versions of Chrome and Safari, you can easily make websites think your phone is a computer.

On Android, open Chrome and tap the three-dot Menu button in the top-right. Check the Desktop site box and it will reload to show you the full version.

On Safari for iOS, tap the aA button to the left of the address bar and choose Request Desktop Website . You'll find the same option in Chrome for iPhone by tapping the Share button at the top-right, followed by scrolling down and choosing Request Desktop Site .

Reasons to Change Your User Agent

Now you know how to trick websites into thinking you're on another device. But why would you change your browser's user agent when you can just install another browser?

Here are some situations where changing your user agent could prove to be fun, useful, or convenient.

1. Website Development

If you're developing a website (or learning about website development), it's important to make sure your site looks good and functions properly in a variety of browsers. While swapping your agent can't accommodate every possible real-world situation, it lets you get some basic testing done in a fraction of the time.

Perhaps you can test Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer just fine on your own. But what if you don't have a Mac to run Safari, or don't have a tablet to test mobile versions of the page?

Further, if backward compatibility is important for your site, swapping your user agent to IE 8 is a lot easier than installing a copy of ancient browsers manually.

Whether for efficiency or because you don't own some of the devices needed to test your site, seeing how your site looks in a variety of browsers is easy using this method.

2. View Mobile Sites on Limited Connections

On a lot of sites, the mobile version offers a slimmed-down amount of content to reduce data usage for the mobile users. While we looked at how to view the full desktop site on a mobile browser, it's not as common to see desktop pages offer their mobile versions.

By changing your user agent to act as a mobile browser, you can force this change the next time you're using your phone as a mobile hotspot or working on a limited connection. Browsing mobile versions of pages means you only get the basics and aren't wasting data on multimedia or other large items.

3. Get Around Browser Restrictions

While not as common as it once was, sometimes you'll come across websites that tell you Firefox doesn't work with the page, or you must use Internet Explorer, or other similar warnings. If you know the site works fine in whatever browser you're using, you can swap your user agent to oblige the website without actually changing browsers.

Remember that changing your user agent doesn't actually modify the software you're running---it only changes what your browser reports to the website. Thus, this doesn't work if a website is truly IE-only because it uses archaic ActiveX controls or something similar. However, you're unlikely to come across such sites today.

4. Better OS Compatibility

Another uncommon reason for switching your user agent appears in reviews for user agent switching extensions. Some people explain that they use these services to get around sites that block entire operating systems.

While there's really no good reason for a site to block an entire OS, you could run into a page that complains about you using Linux. If this happens, you can just tell it you're using Internet Explorer and the site will think you're on Windows.

This could also come in handy if you're using an out-of-date operating system. Those still using an outdated browser on Windows XP will likely see warnings on most websites that the browser is no longer supported. As Windows 7 is left behind, this will also happen as major browsers drop support for it.

We recommend jumping ship to a modern operating system as soon as possible. But in the meantime, you can try swapping your user agent to squeeze a little more life out of your current system.

5. See a Different Perspective and Have Fun

Are the above options too boring for you? If so, you can still use agent switching just to have a bit of fun.

If you've used Windows all your life, you can jump around some sites and see if they look any different when using Mac or Linux. Or change your user agent to an ancient version of Internet Explorer, then see how many sites still support it. What kind of messages do they display, and how many block you from using the outdated browser?

Some browser-switching agents even allow you to pose as Googlebot, the robot Google uses to crawl and index the web. It could be interesting to see what content sites serve to the bots!

Seeing the web from a different perspective could be enjoyable once in a while, even if you can't get much practical use out of it.

Trick Websites With a New User Agent

We've looked at how to make your browser pretend it's something else by changing your user agent. While it's not something you'll probably need to do often, it comes in handy at times.

Keep in mind that the user agent isn't the only way to identify your browser, so sites may still be able to tell what you're actually using. Even though it is fun to trick websites, it's not a true measure of privacy.

For a deeper way to protect yourself online, you should start using a VPN if you don't already.

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How to Emulate iPhone (Change User Agent) in Safari and Firefox Web Browser

W hen web browser accessing the web server to download web page’s contents, it send an user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. Useragent allows web server to respond separately to different system or apply different behavior and features to different browser.

With the popularity of iPhone soaring high, which sales will surely climb higher with the release of iPhone 3G at ridiculously low price, and advanced sophisticated futuristic iPhone, a lot of content providers have create unique, interesting, and sometimes free contents specifically just for iPhone users. Some websites even prepare an individual special user interface for iPhone user, normally just nicely fit into the screen orientation and size of iPhone LCD.

To access these contents from the desktop or laptop and notebook computer, which has a bigger LCD screen, instead of having to view the web pages on the comparably small screen, user can change the user agent string on the PC web browser. Changing web browser’s user agent to emulate and imitate as iPhone usually work because this is the check most web servers depends on.

To use Firefox web browser as if it’s the Safari browser inside the iPhone, follow this guide to change the user agent of Firefox . The user agent string to use is as follow:

For general.useragent.override in about:config preference:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

For User Agent Switcher add-on:

Description: iPhone User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) App Version: Version/3.0 Platform: Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

To fake iPhone’s Safari using Safari in Windows or Mac OS X , run Safari , click on Edit -> Preference , then go to Advanced tab. Check the checkbox for Show Develop menu in menu bar option.

Exit from the Preference dialog window, a new “Develop” menu will show in the menu bar. Click on Develop , and then select User Agent in the pull down menu. Click to select Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone .

Now the both Firefox and Safari browsers is surfing the web by telling everybody that you’re indeed using an iPhone to connect to Internet.

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You've probably been annoyed at one time or another when visiting a website that requires a specific browser. Luckily, you can fool a website into thinking you're using a different browser and you can do this with most, including Safari.

User agent "spoofing" is not a new thing. It was sometimes necessary when there was a so-called browser war. Website designers would often design pages to render and deliver different content depending on the user's browser. The solution to this was often to send a false "user agent string," which would fool the web server into delivering you the preferred content.

Today, users are less likely to have a problem since websites and browsers are better at adhering to web standards. That's not to say you won't still encounter one every now and then.

If you use Apple OS X's Safari, here's how you change the user agent, and even create custom ones as well.

When Safari visits a website, it will send a string of text such as this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18

This tells the web server that this particular user is running Safari 8 on a Mac running OS X 10.10.2.

It will obviously be different per the operating system and web browser. A computer running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 10 would appear as such:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)

The list of user agent strings is quite extensive because there are so many browsers on different operating systems. By the way, it's possible to see what information your browser reveals about you , which includes your screen resolution, IP address, and more.

Changing Your User Agent on Safari

We've discussed the ways you can change the user agent on Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox . Let's discuss now how to change it on Apple OS X's Safari.

First, open Safari's preferences from the "Safari" menu or with "Command + ,".

With the preferences open, click on the "Advanced" tab. At the very bottom, you want to check the box next to "Show Develop menu in the menu bar" and then exit out of the preferences.

Now Safari will have a new menu devoted solely to development tools.

The "User Agent" menu is at the top. There's already quite a few options available including preceding versions of Safari on OS X and iOS, Chrome on Mac and Windows, as well as an "Other..." option.

The "Other..." option allows you to specify a user agent other than those listed, such as if you're curious to see how Google Chrome on an iPad running iOS 8.2 renders, you'd use the appropriate string.

When you open the "Other..." option from the User Agent menu then, you'd simply type of copy the user agent string for the browser you want to test.

Afterwards, the new user agent will appear in the User Agent menu. Note, however, you can only have one "other" user agent at a time.

As we suggested in the introduction, it's unusual to have to change your user agent because most browsers are fairly good now at adhering to standards, and most websites are browser agnostic (though some browsers work better on some sites than others).

On a related note, if you're curious to see how your browser does with regard to web standards, you can always try the Acid Tests developed by the Web Standards Project .

That said, we hope you've found this article useful. If you have anything you'd like to add, such as a question or a comment, please provide feedback in our discussion forum.

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Open the Settings app, then select Safari to change your iPhone’s user agent for Safari. Select “User Agent” from the General menu. Tap the name of the user agent you want to use to change to that one.

In Safari, you can switch users in a few different ways. First, if the current user is logged in, you can click their name in the window’s upper-left corner and choose “Sign Out” from the menu that appears. – To add a user if the user is not logged in, click the “Users” button on the toolbar. Alternatively, you can open Safari’s preferences and select the “General” tab.

On an iPhone or iPad, launch the Settings app and select Safari to modify the browser’s settings. Open the Watch app, then choose Safari to modify the Safari settings on an Apple Watch. Open the Safari browser on your Mac and choose Preferences to modify Safari’s settings.

User Agent Switcher: How Do I Use It?

User-Agent Switcher’s usage is very easy. Open the website you want to view in a different browser, then click the user-agent extension to choose the browser you want to view the website in.

Regardless of the operating system or browser you prefer, User-Agent Switcher is an easy-to-use but incredibly effective add-on. To switch between the various frequently used user-agent strings, it offers a toolbar button. Simply put, it’s the quickest way to change your browser’s user agent.

Every web request includes a user agent, which is a brief text description of the device being used by the requester. Websites are able to recognize the user’s browser and deliver tailored content, which explains why iPhone and Android users access unique mobile websites when browsing the internet. Anyone can quickly and easily switch between user-agent strings with the help of this browser extension. Additionally, they can program particular URLs that they want to spoof constantly.

One can imitate, spoof, or fake other browsers or devices by changing the User-Agent.

How can I change my Safari user agent permanently?

Normally, one would select “Preferences > Advanced >Show Developer Mode” in the menu bar. Then, for instance, “Develop > User Agent > Chrome on Windows”.

Hello everyone. I need assistance editing the plist file to permanently change Safari’s user agent.

Go to “Preferences Advanced Show developer mode in the menu bar” normally. Define the User Agent Chrome – Windows, for example.This returns to Default (Safari) when you open a new tab or window, though. This kind of conduct is normal.

In the past, it was possible to edit a line in “/Users/(user)/Library/Preferences/com” that determined the user agent: apple, Safari, and plist.

On my iPhone’s Safari, how do I remove browser hijackers?

Force Quit Safari. This will fix a browser hijack on Apple Safari. Choose Force Quit from the Apple menu. dot. 2: Check the homepage settings. The websites that load when your web browser is opened depend on the homepage preferences you’ve set. dot. 3: Take away Extensions dot. 4. Clear the browser’s cache. dot. Page 5: Test Search.

In Safari, how do I remove the user agent stylesheet?

Once you’ve changed your Safari preferences: Advanced: Set StyleSheet to None; delete all of your browsing history and cache. To get rid of the “User agent stylesheet” properties, you will need to close and reopen Safari. Download and run the free version if the issue continues after paragraph 1.

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How to remove the classes that are applied by the “User Agent Stylesheet” in MAC Safari.
Mac OS X version 10.6; Safari 4.0, 4). Safari version 5 is also.

How do I modify permissions in Safari?

Click Websites under Safari > Preferences to modify these settings. On the left is a list of the settings you can change, including Reader and Content Blockers. Select the setting first, then select the desired option from the pop-up menu next to the website to apply it to one of the websites on the right.

On: Constantly use Safari Reader to display articles on the website without ads or other interruptions.
Off: The site shouldn’t automatically use Reader. (You can still select Reader to read specific website articles.l.
On: Prevent the website from displaying advertisements and other unwanted content.

User agents override support

Ctrl Shift P (Windows, Linux) or Command Shift P (macOS) will open the Command Menu, which can be used to override the user agent string from Microsoft Edge DevTools. To launch the Network Conditions tool, enter network conditions, choose Show Network Conditions, and then press Enter.

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To access the Command Menu, press Ctrl Shift P (Windows, Linux) or Command Shift P (Mac OS).

How do I remove the user-agent stylesheet in Safari?

Once you’ve changed your Safari preferences: Advanced: Set StyleSheet to None; delete all of your browsing history and cache. To get rid of the “User agent stylesheet” properties, you must close and reopen Safari. After reading paragraph 1, if the issue still exists, download and run the file.

How to remove the classes that the “User Agent Stylesheet” applied to MAC Safari.
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Can you override the user-agent stylesheet?

User-agent stylesheet declarations may be overridden by author styles. When you write your CSS, you do exactly that every day. User styles and user agent styles are superseded by author styles.

Una used the impending CSS cascade layer revolution as an opportunity to look into the CSS cascade in a brief YouTube article.

I discovered a new fact regarding the CSS keyword!important while watching the article. Let’s look at where styles can originate first, though, before moving on to the important stuff. The appearance and feel of a website are governed by three different CSS origins:

User stylesheets appear to be obsolete today. They are forbidden by Chrome, and Firefox intends to gradually stop supporting them by placing the feature behind a development flag.

Is spoofing permitted?

The Truth in Caller ID Act makes it illegal for anyone to transmit false or inaccurate caller ID information with the intention of defrauding, causing harm, or fraudulently obtaining anything of value. Spoofing in violation of the law can result in fines of up to $10,000 per offense.

In order to hide their identity, callers who spoof caller ID intentionally alter the data sent to the display. Scammers frequently use neighbor spoofing to make it seem as though an incoming call is coming from a local number, or they may spoof a company or government agency whose number you may already know and trust. If you respond, they will attempt to use scam scripts to steal your money or important personal data that they can use for fraud.

For more information on spoofing and how to avoid being conned, watch the article and explore the tabs.

The FCC is the place to go if you believe you are the victim of a spoofing scam.

What is Safari’s user agent on the iPhone?

AppleWebKit/605.1 and Mozilla/5.0 (both running on iPhones with CPUs running iPhone OS 16_3_1 like Mac OS X) are the most recent user agents for Safari on iOS. Version 16.3 (KHTML, similar to Gecko) Mobile 15E148 Safari 604.1.

Apple’s Safari web browser is compatible with macOS computers and mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. The user agent will vary a little depending on the platform you’re using (or want to pretend you’re using!).

These are the most recent Safari user agents for desktop and mobile devices.

Standard Safari will never reveal the precise model number of the device being used, and there are typically much fewer additional fragments added by installed addons or apps—toolbars, etc.—compared to some other popular browsers and platforms.

The Safari web browser’s user agent is

A user-agent of “Safari” is used to identify the Safari browser.
Document. querySelector(“output-safari”). textContent.
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Document. querySelector(“output-opera”). textContent.

What is user agent spoofing?

Simply right-click any page to choose your user agent. To switch between user agents, this Chrome extension adds a toolbar button and a menu. Use one of our predefined user agents or add one of your own. You can imitate, spoof, or fake other browsers, gadgets, or search engine spiders by changing your user agent.

By installing extensions, you can upgrade Chrome with new features. You can find tens of thousands of extensions for bloggers, shoppers, designers, photographers, chefs, students, lifehackers, and much more by visiting the Chrome Web Store on your desktop computer.

The Chrome Web Store also offers a huge selection of themes. To give your Chrome a completely new look, find the one that is ideal for you.

From a mobile device, you can install extensions and apps on your computer. Start by browsing or searching the web in a Chrome window to find the extension or app you want, then tap the link to launch it. Study More.

How do I get around Safari’s limitations?

Launch the Settings application and tap on Screen Time to disable restrictions in iOS 12 or later. Press the Content and Privacy Restrictions button when the Screen Time menu appears. On the next screen, enter your passcode and turn off content.

How can I remove the restrictions that prevent me from accessing Apple News on my iPhone?

You can restrict which apps can be used and for how long by using the Restrictions feature on your iPhone. You can turn off the feature, which will remove all restrictions from your device and allow you to access any apps that are blocked on your device due to restrictions. How to disable restrictions on the iPhone is explained in the following guide.

It takes under a minute to restrict an app. It is also fairly simple to remove the restrictions if you know the passcode for the restrictions feature. In iOS 12, the Restrictions feature has been updated and relocated to Screen Time. Therefore, there are different procedures for removing restrictions. The steps are listed below.

How do I unlock Safari’s access restrictions?

IPhone Settings: By adjusting iPhone Settings, you can use Safari to access websites that are blocked. Choose Screen Time in the Settings app. Choosing Content Restrictions Select unrestricted access by clicking Web Content.

On occasion, Safari won’t let you open a website. Web filtering and geographic restrictions are typically to blame for this. Safari restricts access to websites that have been flagged as having malware or phishing. When you attempt to access web content from a location where it isn’t accessible or hasn’t yet been made public, geo-restrictions happen.

You can employ the following techniques to unblock websites in Safari for Mac:

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iOS is Apple's Operating System for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.

Here you can find the latest user agents for some of the most popular web browsers which run on iOS: Starting with Apple's own web browser: Safari, we've also got user agents for other browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

Explore our huge user agent listing , download our user agents database , (or you can search it ) if you're curious about other user agents.

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Our Web Browser/Operating System Version Numbers API endpoint will provide you with the latest user agents for all sorts of popular web browsers and operating systems.

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You can use our User Agent Parser page to try out different user agent varieties, or to test if your user agent switcher is working properly.

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If you're interested in our database of many millions of user agents, please check out our API which provides access to our user agent database . You can perform very detailed and specific queries on it to find user agents that match your exact criteria - version numbers, hardware types, platforms and so on.

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I am pretty new to Mac so be easy.

The website used by the company I work for only runs smoothly with IE. If I don't use IE the pages are jumbled, but if I change the user agent on Safari to IE it works correctly. How can I set it up so that the default user agent when Safari opens a new window or tab will IE. It is annoying to have to constantly change the user agent every time I open a new window or tab when doing work from home.

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User Agent in Safari on iPadOS

During authentication flow in Safari, we have a case when in order to satisfy a condition policy, user needs to install the app on his device. Depending on the OS, we ask him to install different applications. Since on iPadOS User Agent in Safari is same as on MacOS Catalina, what is recommened way to distinguish OS on server side?

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

MacOS Catalina:

Safari : Mozilla/5.0 ( Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0 ) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

I have a similar situation as antrix1989 where our webclient determines if a user is browsing via an iPad with JavaScript and alters/restricts the content. We can then market our clients to a subscription on/with our native iOS app. Would be super helpful if the User Agent stated it was iPad OS instead of Mac OS X:

so a regex match could be done to fairly certain determine a user was on iPad.

Hopefully this will change closer to or after the release?

Any update on this? Will the issue be solved before ios13 is released? I'm facing the same issue on iPads.

In our case we use the user agent to detect if the browser belongs to a mobile device.

This is important because on mobile devices we set our web application to listen the touch events such touchstart, touchend, etc, to drag some elements. But currently we cannot subscribe to those events since we cannot detect it is a mobile device.

Somebody in another forum suggested me to verify if Safari browser is not set to show the desktop version of the web site. I'll check that today. But I think this is still an issue because even if user agent is retrieved as the desktop device, mouse events are not being emulated by safari.

I opened Settings -> Safari -> Request Desktop Website -> All websites. That option is enabled by default. I disabled it and the proper User Agent is now displayed.

Mozilla/5.0 ( iPad ; CPU OS 13_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

IMO it should be disabled by default and if a user enables it a modal window should be displaying indicanting not all web sites will be supported properly. Or maybe you may consider to add the iPad word to the first user agent to allow us to detect if it is an ipad emulating safari desktop or enable mouse event emulation, because I think when it is released several websites will fail.

I have the same issue with one of our sites, we render certain functionality for mobile devices (ipad included) based on the user agent.

The workaround esteban26 suggested works, but it's not ideal if it's enabled by default, It would be great if Apple considers adding the iPad word, or any other identifier to the user agent string.

Agree this should be disabled by default. The current user-agent lies about both the OS and the chipset (Intel vs Arm)

I had submitted a request to add a User Agent change function similar to the Desktop. On my desktop, there are some enterprise web apps speicifally look at browser versions and break on the latest version even though the app would work perfectly fine. I've done this several times where I change the Safari user agent to Chrome or IE11 and apps function just fine. It's just one more thing that would release corporate users from a desktop.

We have same issue here, certain functinalities are dependent on iPad word as well. I also expecting also Apple added back iPad or other keyword to identify iPad.

I have a similar situation.

Any solution or update ?

Again we need some way of determining an iPad

FYI, I submitted feedback/bug report via the Feedback app on the iPad back on July 3rd, 2019. Apple responded on the 19th wanting specific details/steps on how to reproduce the error... I gave specific steps on how to view the user agent via the safari developer console and have yet to hear back from them. The feeback app is reporting "More than 10" recent similar reports and the resolution is still "Open".

Starting to think they're not concerned about this.

Hopefully it will be resolved before launch.

This will impact thousands of our users 😟

Any news on this?

This is a problem for one of our application which is provided for major clients.

Would there be any meta tag which if present by default will launch the site in mobile?

Anyone else have any update on this?

Hi Antrix1989,

from what I've observed another way to load a mobile version of a given website on iPadOS is to ensure that the browser's width is compact. To achieve this you must use the multi-tasking feature and place safari in a popup or split paned with another app such that Safari now has compact width.

This doesn't work for me running iOS 13.1.2 on iPad. I turned "Request Desktop Website On All Websites" OFF and UserAgent still reports "Macintosh".

Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I am shocked this isn't causing complete chaos with all the web apps out there.

I'm starting to wonder if 'iPadOS' is code for Catalyst.

After all, we're told we can build one app for mac and ipad...where is the bifurcation to help websites deliver their mobile-centric version?

Now that ios13 is out of Beta and deployed does anybody else still see the UA issue for Safari

Is there any fix on the horizon - We can't ask the entire Safari iPad using internet to know about and toggle this Dev tools fix

I can't believe they set this option to default on iPads, from minimal testing it's the Safari and Firefox browsers on iPads that default to "Desktop View" (Chrome still defaults to mobile website on ipads) and no one is offering a way for developers to get around this.

I collapse my menus on mobile devices and remove/add certain elements that are different from my desktop site and this completely destroys all of that coding.

This is still an issue. Yes, the Desktop settings workaround does help get a sensible userAgent, but nobody on a large iPad is ever going to set that. The main issue I have is that I'm developing an HTML5 Audio player where we want to hide our volume control interface when the device is an iPhone or iPad, since there is no way to control HTML5 Audio volume property via Javascript on these devices. Does anyone have a sane solution to this?

OK I have a solution.

Simply create an HTML5 Audio object and attempt to set the .volume property.

Mobile Safari can't do this.

You're welcome.

Agreed. This is a devasting user experience for the iPad. And you want people to choose an iPad over a Mac and you make completely stupid moves like this? For example, iPadOS does not auto-uncompress .zip files like a Mac. Users come on the support saying how nothing works, because when they tap the download it's broken. Even sophisticated users have to poke around to find "Uncompress" buried at the bottom of the the long-touch menu. If you didn't LIE to my web server, I could offer the uncompressed link, and everything would be fine.

Do not LIE about your user-agent, certainly CPU architecture and operating system. That is the kind of schmuck moves the old Microsoft would make. Perhaps they hired the MSIE team. So short sighted. *** Apple?

Hi, so it looks like User Agent "sniffing" will no longer work for iPad iOS 13+. If you have control over the devices, you could turn off the setting "Request Desktop Website" (Settings -> Safari -> Request Desktop Website (under Settings for Websites), but... I'm assuming you don't have control over the client device settings.

I did find this fix Repeated link if the embedded one doesn't work: ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9038625/detect-if-device-is-ios ).

Essentially, just tack on the solution to whatever current User Agent detection you are running.

(copied below in case the answer is lost on Stack)

Maybe Apple specifically wants iPadOS users to experience desktop websites by default, so they made its default user agent look like it's macOS?

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Apple Launches New Safari Ad Campaign: 'A Browser That's Actually Private'

Apple today shared a new privacy-focused Safari ad, which is designed to highlight the ways that Safari protects user privacy compared to other browsers.

The video is accompanied by billboards in cities around the world and short digital ads that are being shown on social networks. Apple has also highlighted some of the recent privacy updates made to Safari on its WebKit blog .

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