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Need better version detection for macOS #19832

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KingsLine opened this issue Oct 7, 2022 · 4 comments
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Need better version detection for macOS #19832

KingsLine opened this issue Oct 7, 2022 · 4 comments
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@KingsLine
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I am using the latest version of Matomo (4.12.0) and have noticed for awhile now that every version of macOS since Catalina (10.15) is reported as 10.15. While, in fact, Big Sur (macOS 11.0 released in 2020) and Monterey (macOS 12.0 released in 2021) are subsequent releases to Catalina.

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I have confirmed this via BrowserStack by testing in a clean browser environment using macOS 12.2.1. Matomo reports it as a visit from a macOS 10.15 device.

Someone must have noticed this, right? Is this just my installation somehow?
@Findus23
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Findus23 commented Oct 8, 2022

Hi,

Can you share the user agent your browser is sending to Matomo? (And which browser you are using)
(e.g. by visiting https://devicedetector.lw1.at/)

If that's what the user agent is telling Matomo (and if I remember Apple is intentionally freezing the UA), there is not much that can be done here.

@KingsLine
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Ah, I see now.

Yes, here is the UA string: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.0 Safari/605.1.15.

So it appears it's an operating system limitation as this happens in both the latest versions of Safari and Chrome on macOS 12.6.

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Update: it appears that Matomo can sniff the OS version from Chrome (due to JSON/headers) but not Safari on macOS. I confirmed this using BrowserStack. So, apparently, I have a bunch of visitors using Safari.

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sgiehl commented Oct 10, 2022

@KingsLine with Matomo 4.12 we have added support for client hints. In browsers using client hints like chrome, it might be possible to detect the correct OS version using such now. For Safari and other brothers not supporting client hints, there is actually not much we can do, as the useragent reports the incorrect version...

@sgiehl sgiehl closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Oct 10, 2022
@justinvelluppillai justinvelluppillai added the answered For when a question was asked and we referred to forum or answered it. label Oct 18, 2022
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