IOS Orion Browser UA (user agent)

ShalanahDawson

UA is indistinguishable from iOS Safari - this is a problem for deciphering the difference between SFSafariViewController and Orion. https://github.com/shalanah/inapp-spy/issues/37

Orion

iPhone OS 26.1 Orion 19 maybe?

Michal

What is the motivation here?
Orion is too small for their own UA.
Creating our own UA increases fingerprinting vector and may break web compatibility due to websites still using UA to gatekeep features sometimes.

ShalanahDawson

Would love if feature detection always worked but it is difficult or nearly impossible for things like successful downloading - SFSafariViewController seems indistinguishable from Orion browser except for properties client-side (attached to the window). Having a reliable UA helps webdevs mitigate an array of ios issues client or server side. Ideally Apple would make SFSafariViewControllers downloading experience less awful or easier to detect but I haven't seen that happen yet.

Michal

Thanks for the explanation. Our strategy is to follow Safari's UA for the time being.
Unfortunately UA checks are widely used and having a custom one may break web compatibility in many ways.
For Brave example in your github issue, it took them many years to stop mimicking Safari/Chrome, they only did it once they got big enough userbase.