What device am I using?
See what device type your browser reports, desktop, mobile or tablet, plus touch and platform hints. Detected live, nothing uploaded.
A summary of the device your browser reports is shown above: whether it looks like a desktop, mobile or tablet, and the capability hints that back that up, such as touch support and platform. Browsers do not hand over a clean device name, so this is inferred from several signals together.
The inference blends the user agent's platform tokens, the mobile Client Hint where available, touch support, and screen size. No single one is decisive (a touchscreen laptop muddies the water), so treating device type as a confident guess rather than a fact is the honest approach.
This matters because sites branch heavily on it: mobile users get larger tap targets and simplified navigation, desktop users get denser layouts and hover interactions. Getting the guess wrong leads to the familiar frustration of a mobile layout on a big screen or vice versa.
What you should know
Why sites collect it
Sites use device type to choose layouts, input assumptions (touch versus mouse), and features. App download pages use it to offer the right store link, and analytics use it to understand their audience mix.
Privacy implications
Device type is a coarse, low-entropy signal on its own, since it only sorts you into a few broad buckets. Its privacy relevance comes from the underlying signals (user agent, touch, screen) that combine into it, each of which is discussed on its own page here.
How to change or hide it
You influence device detection mainly through the user agent and touch settings. Requesting a desktop site on mobile flips the reported type, and privacy browsers normalise these signals. There is no single device-type toggle.
Frequently asked questions
How does a site know if I am on mobile?
It combines your user agent, a mobile hint, touch support and screen size into a best guess. No single signal is definitive, which is why touchscreen laptops can confuse it.
Can I make a site treat my phone as a desktop?
Yes. Most mobile browsers have a request-desktop-site option that changes the user agent, which usually flips the detected device type.