detect ipad/iphone webview via javascript
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
};
I think that you can just use the User-Agent
.
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
Solution
var isSafari = navigator.userAgent.match(/Safari/i) != null;
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);
I've tried all these solutions but didn't work in my case,
I was going to detect the Webview inside Telegram. I think it uses SFSafariViewController
.
I noticed Safari app changes all phone style texts to links with "tel:" prefix but a webview doesn't.
So, I used that.
test it here : jsfiddle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<ul id="phone" style="opacity:0">
<li>111-111-1111</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
<script>
var html = document.getElementById("phone").innerHTML;
if (navigator.platform.substr(0,2) === 'iP') {
if (html.indexOf('tel:') == -1)
alert('not safari browser');
else
alert('safari browser');
}
else
alert('not iOS');
</script>