Apple

Your iPhone or iPad has an AXXXX code printed on the back or buried in Settings. It tells you which model the device is, but only if you have the mapping. Here is the full A-code to device-name reference 51Degrees uses, along with a note on how Apple's three different identifiers fit together and where to find each one.

This blog explains how Apple’s web crawlers, including Applebot and Applebot-Extended, work across its ecosystem to surface content in Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. It outlines the different crawlers, their purposes—such as search indexing, feed updates, and AI training—and how enabling them can improve content visibility, traffic, and control over how content is used, particularly in generative AI.

Apple has made it difficult to detect between iPhone devices, and it’s rare to resolve the detection result to one singular model. This blog discusses the different detection methods and what you can do if the iPhone is detected as a group of models.

iOS 17 is due to be released soon and our device detection can now detect the new release. During testing, we spotted a small change to the iOS 17 desktop mode User-Agent that can affect other device detection solutions.

The iPhone 14 range and iOS 16 are now available. We updated our Device Detection ready for the increase of users with these devices and operating system.

With the event streamed online on Tuesday, Apple announced details on their upcoming devices. Not only that, but they continue to bolster their privacy features with iOS 15. Let’s discuss the big announcements made at the event.

Apple adding new privacy features for its users is a good thing, right? Well, not everyone is happy about it. We discuss the new App Tracking Transparency feature within this blog.

51Degrees now detects all four new iPhone 12 models. Ensure that your web offerings will be up-to-date and ready to take on these new devices.

iOS 14 is one of Apple's biggest iOS updates to date, introducing Home screen design changes, major new features, updates for existing apps, Siri improvements, and many other tweaks that streamline the iOS interface.

New iPhones, new innovative features, but only one feature stood out to us, the A13 Bionic Chip. Apple is claiming the new iPhone has the fastest CPU and GPU of any smartphone, let us see why.