diff --git a/js/utils/platform.js b/js/utils/platform.js
index a27b8ddd27b..5f1e86f673b 100644
--- a/js/utils/platform.js
+++ b/js/utils/platform.js
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
         platformName = getParameterByName('ionicplatform');
       } else if (self.ua.indexOf('Android') > 0) {
         platformName = ANDROID;
-      } else if (self.ua.indexOf('iPhone') > -1 || self.ua.indexOf('iPad') > -1 || self.ua.indexOf('iPod') > -1) {
+      } else if (/iPhone|iPad|iPod/.test(self.ua)) {
         platformName = IOS;
       } else if (self.ua.indexOf('Windows Phone') > -1) {
         platformName = WINDOWS_PHONE;
diff --git a/test/unit/angular/service/platform.unit.js b/test/unit/angular/service/platform.unit.js
index 0a86724e567..055c47a1e8a 100644
--- a/test/unit/angular/service/platform.unit.js
+++ b/test/unit/angular/service/platform.unit.js
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ describe('Ionic Platform Service', function() {
     expect(ionic.Platform.version()).toEqual(7.0);
   });
 
+  it('set ios with iPod user agent', function() {
+    ionic.Platform.ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPod touch; CPU OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B511 Safari/9537.53';
+    ionic.Platform.setPlatform(undefined);
+    ionic.Platform.setVersion(undefined);
+    expect(ionic.Platform.platform()).toEqual('ios');
+    expect(ionic.Platform.version()).toEqual(8.1);
+  });
+
   it('should not be iPad from none iPad user agent', function() {
     ionic.Platform.ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B554a Safari/9537.53';
     ionic.Platform.setPlatform(undefined);