Question

I want to change my user-agent string for a reason, so I want to know; Is there a way to change the Google Chrome user-agent string on iPadOS 14.5.1? chrome://version shows

Google Chrome   90.0.4430.78 (Official Build) stable (64-bit)
Revision    5efbfe317610ba1c007cae2c17a1387b25023954-refs/branch-heads/4430@{#1273}
OS  iOS
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 14_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/90.0.4430.78 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Command Line    /var/containers/Bundle/Application/E45C7263-8110-4FD7-816A-7F1716519B62/stable.app/Chrome --gaia-url=https://accounts.google.com/ --lso-url=https://accounts.google.com/ --google-apis-url=https://www.googleapis.com/ --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Variations  90a7075b-ca7d8d80
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59b6f412-ca7d8d80
60d4b352-fcb701
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Compiler    LLVM clang

So please can someone answer my question?

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Solution

TL;DR: No, you can't. Unless there're any other browsers that support switching User Agent natively.

It's sad news, since all browsers on iOS/iPadOS share the same technology (WebKit) under the hood as Safari, per requirement by Apple. You can't install existing Chrome extensions to switch UA string either (also not doable on Chrome for Android).

WebKit surely provided abilities to change UA string, but Chrome on iOS sadly didn't expose this feature.

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