Determine if user navigated from mobile Safari

Question

I have an app, and I\'d like to redirect the users to different pages based on where they are navigating from.

If navigating from web clip, do not redirect. If navig

Answer 1

See https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent#chrome_for_ios_user_agent - the user agent strings for Safari on iOS and for Chrome on iOS are inconveniently similar:

Chrome

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

Safari

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

Looks like the best approach here is to first of all check for iOS as other answers have suggested and then filter on the stuff that makes the Safari UA unique, which I would suggest is best accomplished with "is AppleWebKit and is not CriOS":

var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;
var iOS = !!ua.match(/iPad/i) || !!ua.match(/iPhone/i);
var webkit = !!ua.match(/WebKit/i);
var iOSSafari = iOS && webkit && !ua.match(/CriOS/i);