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If you’ve been keeping an eye on Stadia fans for the past
few weeks, you might be aware that iOS 14 makes it possible to run Stadia
through an iOS web browser. By tricking the user agent and heading to Stadia’s
web app, playing games is indeed possible on an iPhone or iPad. It’s just… well
it’s a pain in the butt.
Thankfully, someone has developed a way to make this process
easier. Reddit user u/zmknox took the time to create a custom browser that’s
fully in support of the App Store but allows users to run Google Stadia with
ease. Simply download “Stadium” from the App Store and you’ll get a very basic
browser that’s designed to do two things.
First, Stadium runs in fullscreen, meaning you’ll have no
browser UI elements in the way of a Stadia game. Further, Stadium has the
ability to set a custom user agent which allows users to “trick” Stadia into
working. Plus, the app makes it possible to use a game controller with
“supported” webpages. u/zmknox explains the setup process below:
Set primary URL to https://stadia.google.com/home
Set user agent to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X
10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83
Safari/537.36
In the … menu, select Authenticate, and visit
https://accounts.google.com/
After you’ve signed in to your Google account, tap done. You
may also need to select “Go Home” from the … menu.
That’s it! Now every time you launch Stadium, it brings you
right to the Stadia landing page.
How does it work? Once set up properly, it works pretty
well! I was able to get this up and running in just a few minutes on my iPad
Pro, and with a PS4 controller paired, I didn’t notice any lag issues with Orcs
Must Die 3. It’s worth noting that Stadia can’t recognize which controller
you’re using with this, but I’m sure most people can work around this.
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