How can I detect with php that the user uses an ipad when my user agent doesnt conatin something like that

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Hey I'm trying to detect if I am requesting a php website with an ipad. I know this should be possible with

if(stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iPad')) {

but if I just echo my User agent I get this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

I know there are many classes etc. to detect that like mobiledetect.. but they are all using the User agent and mine has no ipad in. So what am I doing wrong?

Use [browscap](https://browscap.org/) to detect. – Markus Zeller Jun 11 '20 at 11:27 — Markus Zeller, Jun 11 '20 at 11:27

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 11:58

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Unfortunately, as of right now, this is no longer possible. This is due to Apple making changes to create "Desktop-Class Browsing with Safari", where, on iPadOS, users are presented with the Desktop version of a website. There isn't anything in the user agent anymore that will allow for distinguishing between the iPad and Desktop.

answered Jun 11 '20 at 11:58

TJBeanz

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I hope Apple will reconsider this, as having that information is useful. – TJBeanz Jun 11 '20 at 12:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 11:29

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Since you understand how to use PHP:

How to detect iPad Pro as iPad using javascript?

Here is the Javascript equivalent with a lot of answers. You will have no problem to copy them to PHP.

answered Jun 11 '20 at 11:29

ChrisG

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How can I detect with php that the user uses an ipad when my user agent doesnt conatin something like that

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