Iphone Drift

iPhone Drift is a simple to use application that recreates the experience of browsing the Internet on an iPhone device.

It replicates the physical design of the device and uses the same browser interface as that of the Safari browser. With it you can navigate back and forward through the opened pages, store and view bookmarks. Even the onscreen keyboard is identical to the phones’ and fully functional.

To open a website in its mobile version, the application uses a custom user-agent that tricks the website into thinking that it is being accessed from an actual mobile device. You can modify this agent and assign it a different phone identity, allowing you to test how a particular website looks on that device model.

Using iPhone Drift, you are able to set a homepage, choose a default search provider, as well as the display orientation. iPhone Drift also allows you to view and copy the source page of the currently opened website.

One of the downsides of the app is that you encounter websites that don’t load in their mobile versions and don’t fit into the screen entirely. Switching to landscape view doesn’t seem to solve this problem.

Another thing that you might find as an inconvenience, is the fact that you can store only four bookmarks.

On one side, iPhone Drift is an interesting application. It can serve as a handy tool if you are a web designed and want to know how a loaded website looks on an iPhone device. On the other hand, the built-in browser itself needs improving.