Question

What will [[UIDevice currentDevice] model] return for “iPad”?

Answer 1

You can use UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM(), which will either return UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone or UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad. Bear in mind that on any device < 3.2, this is unavailable, so first check to see whether the property can be retrieved – in this case, it is not an iPad.

Or, alternatively, to specifically work out whether the platform is an iPad or not, use

if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] model] containsString:@"iPad"]) {
    // Your code goes here
}

Hope this helps 😉