diff --git a/openHAB/OpenHABWebViewController.swift b/openHAB/OpenHABWebViewController.swift
index e0cbb224..6ac6533a 100644
--- a/openHAB/OpenHABWebViewController.swift
+++ b/openHAB/OpenHABWebViewController.swift
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ class OpenHABWebViewController: OpenHABViewController {
         // adds: window.webkit.messageHandlers.xxxx.postMessage to JS env
         config.userContentController.add(self, name: "Native")
         config.userContentController.addUserScript(WKUserScript(source: js, injectionTime: .atDocumentStart, forMainFrameOnly: false))
+
         let webView = WKWebView(frame: view.bounds, configuration: config)
         // Alow rotation of webview
         webView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
@@ -233,6 +234,10 @@ class OpenHABWebViewController: OpenHABViewController {
         // support dark mode and avoid white flashing when loading
         webView.isOpaque = false
         webView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
+        if UIDevice.current.userInterfaceIdiom == .pad {
+            // since ios 13 Safari sets the user agent to desktop mode on iPads so the view renders correctly with larger screens
+            webView.customUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
+        }
         if #available(iOS 16.4, *) {
             webView.isInspectable = true
         }