What is device user agent?

A User-Agent is a string of characters which contains information about your device. 51Degrees translates this string into a multitude of attributes specifically related to your device.

What is Safari user agent?

Essentially, a user agent is a way for a browser to say “Hi, I’m Mozilla Firefox on Windows” or “Hi, I’m Safari on an iPhone” to a web server. The web server can use this information to serve different web pages to different web browsers and different operating systems.

How are user agent strings used in iPhone?

iPhone User Agents. Below are examples of User Agent strings used by the most popular iPhone devices. As Apple do not pass much info through the User Agent, version numbers don’t allow us differentiate between iPhone models. However, with DeviceAtlas client-side, you can classify these user agents to return correct device model.

Where can I find list of user agents?

Here is a list of example User-Agents for different device types that can be detected. If you’d like to learn more on these devices, just copy and paste the UAs to our User-Agent testing tool. You’ll see all the properties of a detected device. Android User Agents. iPhone User Agents. MS Windows User Agents.

Can a device be detected by a user agent?

Every device type, including phones, tablets, desktops, may come with its own UA that makes it possible to detect this device for any purpose. Interestingly bots and crawlers also come with their unique UAs. Here is a list of example User-Agents for different device types that can be detected.

Can a user agent differentiate between different iPhone models?

As Apple do not pass much info through the User Agent, version numbers don’t allow us differentiate between iPhone models. However, with DeviceAtlas client-side, you can classify these user agents to return correct device model. The Complete Guide To User Agents. What is a User Agent?