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I'd like to know what precise version of Mobile Safari the iPad I'm using has. Is there any way to find out (preferably from the device itself)? There doesn't seem to be any menu in Safari Mobile, and thus none to choose "About" from. If you go to Settings | Safari, you see various useful things, but no "About" or "Version" or similar, which surprised me.

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+1 good question. Apparently Safari does not support any of the about: pages en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme – Thilo Nov 10 '11 at 4:53

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The only way I've found to do this is to use an external website (there are plenty to choose from, just search on "what's my browser"), which will report my user-agent string back to me. So I suppose it works, but it feels unsatisfying...

So for instance, these sites will report back to me that my user-agent string is:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5

...from which I can tell that I'm using Mobile Safari 5.0.2.

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For example: show-ip.net/browserinfo – Gerry Nov 9 '11 at 16:41
@Gerry: Yes. I was specifically avoiding calling any specific examples out, because as I said, if you search for "what's my browser" you'll find a lot of them. – T.J. Crowder Nov 9 '11 at 16:41
I didn't even realize you were answering your own question, but to confirm: yes that would be the only way. You could condense a list of iOS versions and installed Mobile Safari and use that for reference, if no one else has done it already... – Gerry Nov 9 '11 at 16:45
@Gerry: Thanks. – T.J. Crowder Nov 9 '11 at 16:46
@T.J.Crowder, you should probably accept your own answer - it's the best way of doing what you asked. – JW8 Nov 9 '11 at 23:39
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You can visit http://spiderip.com to check the user agent and version of safari

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Could you explain why this works, not just a link. Just goiving a link makes me think of viruses and trojans etc. – Mark May 9 at 12:17

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