detect ipad/iphone webview via javascript

Question

Is there a way to differ via javascript if the website runs inside the ipad safari or inside an application WebView?

Answer 1

Yeah:

// is this an IPad ?
var isiPad = (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) != null);

// is this an iPhone ?
var isiPhone = (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) != null);

// is this an iPod ?
var isiPod = (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i) != null);

Answer 2

Neoneye's solution does not work anymore (see comments) and can be simplified. On the other hand, testing only "Safari" in the UA adresses much more than the ios handheld devices.

This is the test i'm using :

var is_ios = /(iPhone|iPod|iPad).*AppleWebKit.*Safari/i.test(navigator.userAgent);

Answer 3

I think that you can just use the User-Agent.

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UPDATE

Page browsed using iPhone Safari

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7

I will try in a second with UIWebView

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8B117

The difference is that the Safari one says Safari/6531.22.7

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Solution

var isSafari = navigator.userAgent.match(/Safari/i) != null;

Answer 4

User Agents

Running in UIWebView

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/98176

Running in Safari on iPad

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B176 Safari/7534.48.3

Running in Safari on Mac OS X

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.5 Safari/534.55.3

Running in Chrome on Mac OS X

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19

Running in FireFox on Mac OS X

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0

Detection Code

var is_uiwebview = /(iPhone|iPod|iPad).*AppleWebKit(?!.*Safari)/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
var is_safari_or_uiwebview = /(iPhone|iPod|iPad).*AppleWebKit/i.test(navigator.userAgent);

Answer 5

This uses a combination of window.navigator.userAgent and window.navigator.standalone. It can distinguish between all four states relating to an iOS web app: safari (browser), standalone (fullscreen), uiwebview, and not iOS.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/6qrbn/

var standalone = window.navigator.standalone,
    userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(),
    safari = /safari/.test( userAgent ),
    ios = /iphone|ipod|ipad/.test( userAgent );

if( ios ) {
    if ( !standalone && safari ) {
        //browser
    } else if ( standalone && !safari ) {
        //standalone
    } else if ( !standalone && !safari ) {
        //uiwebview
    };
} else {
    //not iOS
};

Answer 6

Last time I needed this (JUST for WebView purposes), I used this check:

function isIOS() {
     return !/safari/.test( window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()) || navigator.platform === 'iOS' || navigator.platform === 'iPhone';
}