UserActivation: hasBeenActive property

Baseline 2023

Newly available

Since November 2023, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

The read-only hasBeenActive property of the UserActivation interface indicates whether the current window has sticky user activation.

Value

A boolean.

Use the hasBeenActive property to check whether the user has interacted with the page since it was loaded.

if (navigator.userActivation.hasBeenActive) {
  // proceed with auto-playing an animation, for example
}

Specification
HTML # dom-useractivation-hasbeenactive

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`hasBeenActive`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 72 (Release date: 2019-01-29) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 120 (Release date: 2023-11-21) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 60 (Release date: 2019-04-09) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 16.4 (Release date: 2023-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 72 (Release date: 2019-01-29) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 120 (Release date: 2023-11-21) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 51 (Release date: 2019-03-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 16.4 (Release date: 2023-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 11 (Release date: 2019-12-05) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 72 (Release date: 2019-01-29) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 16.4 (Release date: 2023-03-27) footnote Full support

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