Desktop mode on iPad doesn't always work

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Description of the issue:

Desktop mode, selected in Brave settings, on iPadOS 15.7 on 2017 iPad works on Reddit but not on Wikipedia (en) or on Whatsmyua

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Go to website eg Wikipedia (en)

  2. Desktop version appears by default

  3. Select mobile version in Brave settings (or leave in Desktop but refresh webpage)

  4. Mobile version appears

  5. Select desktop version in Brave settings, refresh repeatedly

  6. Mobile version persists

Expected result:

Webpage view on iPad switches between mobile and desktop version

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Version 1.43 (22.9.9.14)

BraveCore 1.43.91 (105.0.5195.102)

Device iPad 5 (iPadOS 15.7)

Mobile Device details

2017 iPad (Australia regional settings); iPadOS 15.7;

Additional Information:

https://whatsmyua.info/ for Brave reports device as iPad for for mobile setting and iPad for desktop setting. In Safari on iPad, it reports iPad for mobile setting and Macintosh for desktop setting.

In more detail, for Brave, in mobile and desktop setting, user agent results are the same (according to useragent v2.2.1):

ua

  • rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 15_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
  • string:
  • family: Mobile Safari
  • major: 15
  • minor: 5
  • patch: 0
  • device: iPad 0.0.0

For Safari in mobile mode, user agent results are:

ua

  • rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 15_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6,2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
  • string:
  • family: Mobile Safari
  • major: 15
  • minor: 6
  • patch: 0
  • device: iPad 0.0.0

For Safari in desktop mode, user agent results are:

ua

  • rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6,2 Safari/605.1.15
  • string:
  • family: Safari
  • major: 15
  • minor: 6
  • patch: 0
  • device: Other 0.0.0
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