How would I know if the user is on console, mobile or PC?

[RootEntry (RootAlNaser)]

Hello, this is my first time scripting for phones, and I would like to know how know if the user is on phone, console or mobile.

What’s the best way of doing it (for accuracy)?

[starmaq]

At the moment, there is no official way to check for that sadly. This topic by crazyman32 made a feature request for it, but it got no response.

Device Type Detection

I’ve made a similar request in the past, but I’m coming back with a more refined request. Sometimes it can be very useful to tell what type of device a user is on (such as console, PC, mobile…). However, there is currently no way to explicitly check and see what device the user is on. And so game devs are forced to do hacky tricks to figure out what device the user might be on. I emphasize “might” because it is not a guarantee and there are holes in the logic. My proposal: Player.DeviceType …

There is a :GetPlatform() method, but it can only be used by Roblox core scripts.

This page shows some possible ways you might be able to check for the console.
There is also this hacky way to do so.

[un1ND3X (ice)]

You can check whether someone’s on mobile

if UIS.TouchEnabled and not UIS.KeyboardEnabledand not GuiService:IsTenFootInterface()

However it is not only not very robust, but it also won’t always work generically with many devices

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

What’s your use case?

You can dynamically adapt to what device a user is using with the methods available to you in UserInputService rather than an unsupported workaround, given that devices can have unexpected input devices checked off. Specifically here, for example, GetLastInputType.