diff --git a/.changeset/witty-windows-unite.md b/.changeset/witty-windows-unite.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..999e4064e91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/witty-windows-unite.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@firebase/auth": patch
+---
+
+Update user agent detection to better detect iPad; fixes bug for some iPad devices running Cordova apps
diff --git a/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.test.ts b/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.test.ts
index cea528cb6bf..d759f42fc2f 100644
--- a/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.test.ts
@@ -16,84 +16,106 @@
  */
 
 import { expect } from 'chai';
-import { _getBrowserName, BrowserName } from './browser';
+import { _getBrowserName, BrowserName, _isIOS } from './browser';
 
-describe('core/util/_getBrowserName', () => {
-  it('should recognize Opera', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36 OPR/36.0.2130.74';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.OPERA);
-  });
+describe('core/util/browser', () => {
+  context('_getBrowserName', () => {
+    it('should recognize Opera', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36 OPR/36.0.2130.74';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.OPERA);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize IE', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.IE);
-  });
+    it('should recognize IE', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.IE);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Edge', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.EDGE);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Edge', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.EDGE);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Firefox', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.FIREFOX);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Firefox', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.FIREFOX);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Silk', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Silk/44.1.54 like Chrome/44.0.2403.63 Safari/537.36';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.SILK);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Silk', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Silk/44.1.54 like Chrome/44.0.2403.63 Safari/537.36';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.SILK);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Safari', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11-4) AppleWebKit/601.5.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1 Safari/601.5.17';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.SAFARI);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Safari', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11-4) AppleWebKit/601.5.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1 Safari/601.5.17';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.SAFARI);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Chrome', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.CHROME);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Chrome', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.CHROME);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Android', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.3; ko-kr; LG-L160L Build/IML74K) AppleWebkit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.ANDROID);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Android', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.3; ko-kr; LG-L160L Build/IML74K) AppleWebkit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.ANDROID);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize Blackberry', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9900; en) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.346 Mobile Safari/534.11+';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.BLACKBERRY);
-  });
+    it('should recognize Blackberry', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9900; en) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.346 Mobile Safari/534.11+';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.BLACKBERRY);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize IE Mobile', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0;Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 920)';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.IEMOBILE);
-  });
+    it('should recognize IE Mobile', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0;Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 920)';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.IEMOBILE);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize WebOS', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.3; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Desktop/1.0';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.WEBOS);
-  });
+    it('should recognize WebOS', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.3; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Desktop/1.0';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.WEBOS);
+    });
 
-  it('should recognize an unlisted browser', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Awesome/2.0.012';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq('Awesome');
+    it('should recognize an unlisted browser', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Awesome/2.0.012';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq('Awesome');
+    });
+
+    it('should default to Other', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12D508 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBAV/27.0.0.10.12;FBBV/8291884;FBDV/iPhone7,1;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iPhone OS;FBSV/8.2;FBSS/3; FBCR/vodafoneIE;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/5]';
+      expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.OTHER);
+    });
   });
 
-  it('should default to Other', () => {
-    const userAgent =
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12D508 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBAV/27.0.0.10.12;FBBV/8291884;FBDV/iPhone7,1;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iPhone OS;FBSV/8.2;FBSS/3; FBCR/vodafoneIE;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/5]';
-    expect(_getBrowserName(userAgent)).to.eq(BrowserName.OTHER);
+  context('_isIOS', () => {
+    it('should recognize iPhone', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/1234';
+      expect(_isIOS(userAgent)).to.be.true;
+    });
+
+    it('should recognize iPad without iPad string', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/1234';
+      expect(_isIOS(userAgent)).to.be.true;
+    });
+
+    it('should respond false for other mobile', () => {
+      const userAgent =
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.3; ko-kr; LG-L160L Build/IML74K) AppleWebkit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Chrome/534.30';
+        expect(_isIOS(userAgent)).to.be.false;
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.ts b/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.ts
index e2b8fe5b87a..e91bf9f2d47 100644
--- a/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.ts
+++ b/packages/auth/src/core/util/browser.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ export function _isWebOS(ua = getUA()): boolean {
 }
 
 export function _isIOS(ua = getUA()): boolean {
-  return /iphone|ipad|ipod/i.test(ua);
+  return /iphone|ipad|ipod/i.test(ua) ||
+      (/macintosh/i.test(ua) && /mobile/i.test(ua));
 }
 
 export function _isIOS7Or8(ua = getUA()): boolean {