Detect if device is iOS

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to detect whether a browser is running on iOS, similar to how you can feature detect with Modernizr (although this is obviously device detec

Answer 1

After iOS 13 you should detect iOS devices like this, since iPad will not be detected as iOS devices by old ways (due to new "desktop" options, enabled by default):

let isIOS = /iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.platform)
|| (navigator.platform === 'MacIntel' && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1)

The first condition for iOS < 13 or iPhone or iPad with disabled Desktop mode, the second condition for iPadOS 13 in the default configuration, since it position itself like Macintosh Intel, but actually is the only Macintosh with multi-touch.

Rather a hack than a real solution, but work reliably for me

P.S. As being said earlier, you probably should add IE checkup

let isIOS = (/iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.platform) ||
(navigator.platform === 'MacIntel' && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1)) &&
!window.MSStream