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 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/
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!