So the people at Apple are bad bad people and made it much more difficult to detect iPad OS
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/119186
iPad OS 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 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
There are three major sniffable differences as best I can tell - ordered by seemingly most to least important.
- The
Mac OS X version includes 3 places in macOS but only two places in iOS
- iPad OS does not claim to be chrome
- The version of AppleWebKit in macOS only has two places rather than 3
While I don't normally support meddling with this kind of UA shenanigans, iPadOS seems important enough to bother.
So the people at Apple are bad bad people and made it much more difficult to detect iPad OS
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/119186
iPad OS Safari
MacOS Safari
There are three major sniffable differences as best I can tell - ordered by seemingly most to least important.
Mac OS Xversion includes 3 places in macOS but only two places in iOSWhile I don't normally support meddling with this kind of UA shenanigans, iPadOS seems important enough to bother.