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Mobile Safari: Is there a way for a web site to detect an iOS user's "Region Format"?

  • Trying to get the iOS device's: Settings > International > Region Format I looked at the environmental variables using: http://www.ranks.nl/rools/envtest.html But the closest I got was the HTTP Accept Language, and it only seems to update based on: Settings > International > Language So for instance, if I set "Language" to be English, and "Region Format" to be "Thailand", in the browser when I try to get "window.navigator.language", I just get "en-us". How can I get the Thailand part? Note, this is a web page, not a native app. Thanks!

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    You cannot get region info of a user, no matter if they are on desktop or mobile. All you can get is about what the browser reads OS information and sends to your website. I believe iOS Safari only sends you OS language in the browser for now. Your only chances are as you said HTTP Accept-Language header and navigator.language.

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iOS Safari only gives you the language information, not region. Your desktop browsers usually give the region as well. Just ran some tests with a desktop Chrome on a Mac (set on English + GB) and iOS Safari (set on English + GB) and the Accept-Language headers are the following: Chrome on Mac set on English + GB: en-GB iOS Safari set on English + GB: en-US (because it defaults to the standard locale) This is similar when you are for instance French Canadian. Accept-Language will return fr-fr.

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