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Internet Explorer User Agent - Apple Community

The user agent of Safari on iPadOS beta is at this point exactly the same as Safari on macOS. Is there any other way to tell an iPad from a Mac? IPad running iOS Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 1033 l. Since on iPadOS User Agent in Safari is same as on MacOS Catalina, what is recommened way to distinguish OS on server side? IPadOS: Safari: Mozilla/5.0 ( Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 1015 ) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Safari/605.1.15.

Or you could use one of several third-party browsers that let you set the user agent to desktop Safari, such as iCab Mobile.

One of the issues with all third-party browsers in iOS is that javascript performance is several orders of magnitude slower then it is with Safari, because Apple restricts their 'Nitro' JIT compiler to Safari. For this reason, I stick to Safari on iOS devices.

There's an easier way to do this, just install Atomic Web Browser and change the user string. You can set it as Mobile Safari (Default), Safari desktop, Firefox, Explorer or Wap Device; you can even select some specific versions. If you need the function spend some money and don't mess with your backup files. As I mention before, you have to get the payed version, but is only 0.99 and have some other handy functions.
I use this when a mobile site is underdeveloped and basically useless. Anyway, sometimes, the websites are so bloated that Atomic Web becomes very slow, I believe that the same thing would happen with Safari.

I have enough apps, I don't need another one clogging my memory just because I want to view the desktop version of a web page. This hack is excellent.

This hack involves downloading another app, if you read the blog post.

I use the Atomic Web Browser as well. Works great, has a full screen mode, can import Safari's bookmarks and you can use it when set as Desktop Safari to access icloud.com.

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I'll also recommend Atomic Web Browser for this. It offers settings to appear as several different browsers. I don't use it a lot, but it's handy just in case.
Rich

How To Troubleshoot When Safari App Extension Not Appear In Safari Preferences?