iOS Chrome detection

javascript ios google-chrome mobile
cr1msaun picture cr1msaun · Dec 10, 2012 · Viewed 35.2k times · Source

I use Javascript code

if( (Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry).test(navigator.userAgent) ) {}

for mobile device detection, but Chrome at iOS is not detected. Is there a way to detect it? Thanks.

Answer

Charlotte picture Charlotte · Dec 10, 2012

According to Google Developers, the UA string looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/534.46.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/19.0.1084.60 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3

Where it differs from iOS Safari in that it says CriOS instead of Version. So this:

if(navigator.userAgent.match('CriOS'))

Should do it.

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