The new fixed positioning introduced in iOS5 corrupted my webapp and I need a way to detect iOS5 users.
How can I detect iOS5? What is the browser agent string? JavaScript preferred. Thanks!
The new fixed positioning introduced in iOS5 corrupted my webapp and I need a way to detect iOS5 users.
How can I detect iOS5? What is the browser agent string? JavaScript preferred. Thanks!
From the SO question: What is the iOS 5 user-agent string:
iPhone:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3
iPad:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3
And here is way to test for ios 5.x in javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/OS 5(_\d)+ like Mac OS X/i))
// this helps detect minor versions such as 5_0_1
document.write("You have iOS 5! Aren't you special!");
</script>
I've developed chown's answer a bit further, with a check for any iOS5 device, be it 5 or 5.0.1 or any later versions:
var ios5 = navigator.userAgent.match(/OS 5_[0-9_]+ like Mac OS X/i) != null;
if(ios5) {
// Now you can do specific stuff for devices on any version of iOS5
}
You could be using Modernizr and detecting for Web Workers as they were not available prior to iOS 5. You need to still exclude Android as Android 2.0+ has supported them. This will give you forward compatibility with iOS6 which you aren't going to get with either of the user agent parses already provided.
You need to account for "CPU OS 5_0" and "CPU iPhone OS 5_0", rough and dirty regex:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPad|iPhone);.*CPU.*OS 5_\d/i))
{
alert("On iOS 5")
}
else
{
alert("Not on iOS 5"); //could be either 4- or 6+
}
</script>