Load desktop version WKWebView iOS 9

Question

Up until recently

let url = NSURL (string:http://asite.com)        
let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url!)         

//iOS loads the mobile version of         


        

Answer 1

One way to resolve this it's by setting applicationNameForUserAgent property of WKWebViewConfiguration.

The default value is "Mobile/13C75", but you can set it with "Chrome/23.0.1271.6 Safari/537.11" or just "Chrome Safari" and you will get the desktop version of the requested URL.

WKWebViewConfiguration *wkWebConfig = [[WKWebViewConfiguration alloc] init];    
wkWebConfig.applicationNameForUserAgent = @"Chrome Safari";    
WKWebView *webView = [[WKWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero
                                        configuration:wkWebConfig];

Answer 2

To help any who find themselves here for an answer. The solution was

UserDefaults.standard.register(defaults: ["UserAgent" : "Chrome Safari"])

Answer 3

Swift 4:

@IBOutlet weak var webView: WKWebView!

override func viewDidLoad() {
      super.viewDidLoad()
      self.webView.customUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/601.6.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.1 Safari/601.6.17"
}