Using Safari with Your Computer to Access iPhone Only Sites
Update: This tip is used in the popular "Playboy and Penthouse Free On Your iPhone" article originally broken by iSmashPhone - and stolen by many others :) The Issue: Follow these extremely easy and quick steps in order to access web pages intended for iPhone usage through your Safari browser. Why? You can preview iPhone only sites (even if you don't own an iPhone). You can access information that was geared toward mobile web surfers like yourself. And most importantly, because you can! The Lesson: |
1. Open your Safari Browser 2. Go to Edit, then down to Preferences |
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3. In Preferences, go to Advanced |
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4. Check the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" at the bottom |
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5. Now a "Develop" menu appeared in your Menu Bar |
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6. Click on the Develop Menu, scroll down to User Agent, and Select Mobile Safari 1.1.3 - iPhone |
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Ta Da! Your computer's Safari Browser is now an iPhone Safari Browser. Enjoy it you little non-conformist. Here's what Google looks like now: |
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What says the... Geek: I will take great joy in skewing the statistics of web-browsing information databases by constantly keeping my User Agent as iPhone, hence raising the amount of iPhone browsing done daily. Socialite: You mean this is something that my friends don't know about yet? Let's start learning. Soccer Mom: I thought Safari's were in Africa. |
This seems so simple I can't believe i never knew about it before.
Posted by: Johny Big Cheeks | May 06, 2008 at 04:32 PM
This is definitely useful, particularly for web developers who will be using the iPhone SDK..they wont need to get their iPhone out every 10 seconds to test out their app.
Posted by: Amanda | May 06, 2008 at 04:33 PM
I'm a Computer Science major at UPenn and one of my development professors is actually having us write a program via the iPhone SDK for a project. I don't have an iPhone and i heard about this but didn't know how to actually do it. Thanks guys!
Posted by: Josh | May 06, 2008 at 04:36 PM
Is there a way to get Safari to display in iPhone landscape mode?
Posted by: Tom | May 25, 2008 at 03:57 PM
Yes, just go to file page setup (ctrl+shift+p). Change from portrait to landscape
Posted by: DewMountain | May 25, 2008 at 04:08 PM
I have Safari 3.0.4 installed on my Vista computer and as God as my witness i do not have a "Show develop menu in menu bar" checkbox. Proxies is the bottom option. What gives!
Posted by: Markus | May 31, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Idiot...
Follow ALL the instructions, don't just look at the images !
Posted by: Andrei | August 19, 2008 at 04:31 AM
fuck you Andrei
Posted by: Tenk | November 16, 2008 at 06:30 PM