Using Safari with Your Computer to Access iPhone Only Sites

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– 05/06/2008Posted in: iPhone Hacks

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

3. In Preferences, go to Advanced

4. Check the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" at the bottom

5. Now a "Develop" menu appeared in your Menu Bar

6. Click on the Develop Menu, scroll down to User Agent, and Select Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone

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:

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.

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11 Comments

1. Reply

   Johny Big Cheeks

   Posted May 6, 2008 at 4:32 PM

   This seems so simple I can’t believe i never knew about it before.

2. Reply

   Amanda

   Posted May 6, 2008 at 4:33 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.

3. Reply

   Josh

   Posted May 6, 2008 at 4:36 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!

4. Reply

   Tom

   Posted May 25, 2008 at 3:57 PM

   Is there a way to get Safari to display in iPhone landscape mode?

5. Reply

   DewMountain

   Posted May 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM

   Yes, just go to file page setup (ctrl+shift+p). Change from portrait to landscape

6. Reply

   Markus

   Posted May 31, 2008 at 10:41 AM

   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!

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   Andrei

   Posted August 19, 2008 at 4:31 AM

   Idiot…
   Follow ALL the instructions, don’t just look at the images !

8. Reply

   Tenk

   Posted November 16, 2008 at 6:30 PM

   fuck you Andrei

9. Reply

   omer

   Posted February 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM

   hı,
   I dont have edit menu in my i phone how ı can see this menu please help

10. Reply

    Bad Economy

    Posted April 8, 2009 at 12:19 AM

    I will have to give this a try, since I don’t own an iphone yet.

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