{"id":17457,"date":"2012-03-22T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=17457"},"modified":"2012-03-22T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:02:53","slug":"how-to-change-the-android-browsers-user-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/17457\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Android Browser’s User Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love using well-designed\u00a0mobile webapps. But I hate it when a site blocks me from using its desktop version to do something the mobile one doesn’t support.<\/p>\n

Some browsers like Opera Mobile and the UC Browser let you change their User Agent header to impersonate a desktop browser and thus gain access to most blocked desktop sites. The Android browser lets you do this on a few devices and with some custom ROMs. \u00a0To see if yours does, press the Menu<\/em> key, tap “More<\/em>” and then “Settings<\/em>” and look for an option labeled “UAString<\/em>“. If it’s there, tap it to get a menu that lets you change the User Agent (image,right). The choices vary between phones but always include an option labeled “Desktop<\/em>” which makes the browser send a User Agent that makes it look like you are using Safari on a Machintosh\u00a0running\u00a0OSx.<\/p>\n

If your browser doesn’t give you a UAString option don’t despair, there’s an easy way to enable it that’s known to most mobile web developers and browser geeks but probably many end users. Heres how:<\/p>\n