Detecting iOS / Android Operating system
You can test the user agent string:
/**
* Determine the mobile operating system.
* This function returns one of 'iOS', 'Android', 'Windows Phone', or 'unknown'.
*
* @returns {String}
*/
function getMobileOperatingSystem() {
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent || navigator.vendor || window.opera;
// Windows Phone must come first because its UA also contains "Android"
if (/windows phone/i.test(userAgent)) {
return "Windows Phone";
}
if (/android/i.test(userAgent)) {
return "Android";
}
// iOS detection from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9039885/177710
if (/iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(userAgent) && !window.MSStream) {
return "iOS";
}
return "unknown";
}
Detect if user is using webview for android/iOS or a regular browser
Detecting browser for iOS devices is different from the Android one. For iOS devices you can do it by checking user agent using JavaScript:
var userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(),
safari = /safari/.test( userAgent ),
ios = /iphone|ipod|ipad/.test( userAgent );
if( ios ) {
if ( safari ) {
//browser
} else if ( !safari ) {
//webview
};
} else {
//not iOS
};
For Android devices, you need to do it through server side coding to check for a request header.
PHP:
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] == "your.app.id") {
//webview
} else {
//browser
}
JSP:
if ("your.app.id".equals(req.getHeader("X-Requested-With")) ){
//webview
} else {
//browser
}
Ref:detect ipad/iphone webview via javascript
Detecting a mobile browser
Using Regex (from detectmobilebrowsers.com):
Here's a function that uses an insanely long and comprehensive regex which returns a true
or false
value depending on whether or not the user is browsing with a mobile.
window.mobileCheck = function() {
let check = false;
(function(a){if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i.test(a)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i.test(a.substr(0,4))) check = true;})(navigator.userAgent||navigator.vendor||window.opera);
return check;
};
For those wishing to include tablets in this test (though arguably, you shouldn't), you can use the following function:
window.mobileAndTabletCheck = function() {
let check = false;
(function(a){if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino|android|ipad|playbook|silk/i.test(a)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i.test(a.substr(0,4))) check = true;})(navigator.userAgent||navigator.vendor||window.opera);
return check;
};
Using navigator.userAgentData
You may also use navigator.userAgentData.mobile
, but userAgentData
is still experimental, so it is not recommended for use in production.
const isMobile = navigator.userAgentData.mobile; //resolves true/false
Compatibility chart for userAgentData
The Original Answer
You can do this by simply running through a list of devices and checking if the useragent
matches anything like so:
function detectMob() {
const toMatch = [
/Android/i,
/webOS/i,
/iPhone/i,
/iPad/i,
/iPod/i,
/BlackBerry/i,
/Windows Phone/i
];
return toMatch.some((toMatchItem) => {
return navigator.userAgent.match(toMatchItem);
});
}
However since you believe that this method is unreliable, You could assume that any device that had a resolution of 800x600 or less was a mobile device too, narrowing your target even more (although these days many mobile devices have much greater resolutions than this)
i.e
function detectMob() {
return ( ( window.innerWidth <= 800 ) && ( window.innerHeight <= 600 ) );
}
Reference:
- Detecting Browser and Devices with javascript
Detect if device is iOS
Detecting iOS
With iOS 13 iPad both User agent and platform strings are changed and differentiating between iPad and MacOS seems possible, so all answers below needs to take that into account now.
This might be the shortest alternative that also covers iOS 13:
function iOS() {
return [
'iPad Simulator',
'iPhone Simulator',
'iPod Simulator',
'iPad',
'iPhone',
'iPod'
].includes(navigator.platform)
// iPad on iOS 13 detection
|| (navigator.userAgent.includes("Mac") && "ontouchend" in document)
}
iOS
will be either true
or false
Worse option: User agent sniffing
User Agent sniffing is more dangerous and problems appear often.
On iPad iOS 13, the user agent is identical with that of a MacOS 13 computer, but if you ignore iPads this might work still for a while:
var iOS = !window.MSStream && /iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.userAgent); // fails on iPad iOS 13
The !window.MSStream
is to not incorrectly detect IE11, see here and here.
Note: Both navigator.userAgent
and navigator.platform
can be faked by the user or a browser extension.
Browser extensions to change userAgent or platform exist because websites use too heavy-handed detection and often disable some features even if the user's browser would otherwise be able to use that feature.
To de-escalate this conflict with users it's recommended to detect specifically for each case the exact features that your website needs. Then when the user gets a browser with the needed feature it will already work without additional code changes.
Detecting iOS version
The most common way of detecting the iOS version is by parsing it from the User Agent string. But there is also feature detection inference*;
We know for a fact that history API
was introduced in iOS4 - matchMedia API
in iOS5 - webAudio API
in iOS6 - WebSpeech API
in iOS7 and so on.
Note: The following code is not reliable and will break if any of these HTML5 features is deprecated in a newer iOS version. You have been warned!
function iOSversion() {
if (iOS) { // <-- Use the one here above
if (window.indexedDB) { return 'iOS 8 and up'; }
if (window.SpeechSynthesisUtterance) { return 'iOS 7'; }
if (window.webkitAudioContext) { return 'iOS 6'; }
if (window.matchMedia) { return 'iOS 5'; }
if (window.history && 'pushState' in window.history) { return 'iOS 4'; }
return 'iOS 3 or earlier';
}
return 'Not an iOS device';
}
Is there a way to detect if a specific app is installed on (Android\iOS) device from Javascript?
Following a few hours of research + consulting with top experts I came to the conclusion that there is no legitimate way of achieving the goal of detecting whether a specific app is installed on the device without having the browser re-direct to the app if it is installed.
In iOS for example, there was an app just removed from the App Store because of violating the rules: SysSecInfo. The app managed to pull list of all running processes for example.
From: https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/16-05-09-system-and-security-info.html
See https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/703/ "App
Detection" starting at 08:34During this talk they discuss several APIs used to gather information
about processes currently running on your system (around 12:12 in the
video) and claimed to have fixed them. However as so often Apple has
only partially fixed the problems they claim to have fixed. Therefore
they have actually never stopped malicious applications from gathering
information about what other applications run currently on your
device, but only removed access to detail information that is only
relevant for harmless system information tools anyway.System and Security Info is therefore still able to show the list of
running processes and enriches this list with information from the
codesigning information including the list of entitlements running
processes have.
How to detect if the user has the mobile application from a website and open the app
On Android, you can use app links for your domain. On iOS, you have a similar technique, universal links. Set up these in your mobile apps and redirect a user to such deep link to open content inside your app. If the app is installed, it seizes that redirect and can continue to interact with the user. And if not, a web-page hosted on the link is opened.
Detect if a browser in a mobile device (iOS/Android phone/tablet) is used
Update (June 2016): I now try to support touch and mouse input on every resolution, since the device landscape is slowly blurring the lines between what things are and aren't touch devices. iPad Pros are touch-only with the resolution of a 13" laptop. Windows laptops now frequently come with touch screens.
Other similar SO answers (see other answer on this question) might have different ways to try to figure out what sort of device the user is using, but none of them are fool-proof. I encourage you to check those answers out if you absolutely need to try to determine the device.
iPhones, for one, ignore the handheld
query (Source). And I wouldn't be surprised if other smartphones do, too, for similar reasons.
The current best way that I use to detect a mobile device is to know its width and use the corresponding media query to catch it. That link there lists some popular ones. A quick Google search would yield you any others you might need, I'm sure.
For more iPhone-specific ones (such as Retina display), check out that first link I posted.
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