[CB-5420] userAgent incorrect in iOS simulator

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios

Environment

iOS 6.1 simulator from xCode 4.6.3, running as an iPhone

• Assignee: Andrew Grieve
• Reporter: Jacob Weber
• Created: 16/Nov/13 17:54
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:27
• Resolved: 03/Jan/14 19:29

Description

If I launch a Cordova/PhoneGap app on the iOS 6.1 simulator, running in iPhone mode, and inspect it with Safari on the Mac, the value of navigator.userAgent is:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/10B141 (187887888)"

Note that it says "iPad", although it should be "iPhone".

If I launch Safari in the same simulator, the userAgent string is:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B141 Safari/8536.25"