Check if iOS version is 3.0 or higher with PHP or Javascript

Question

I need to check if an iOS device visiting my Website has iOS 3.0 or higher installed. Can I do that?

Answer 1

If you wish to check what browser/mobile device is accessing you site - then the answer is that you can use read the userAgent string and search for OS and the number. For example:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7

and another useful online tool to check your browser UA is: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/