# Mobile app or mobile website detection of Appium being used?

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/mobile-app-or-mobile-website-detection-of-appium-being-used/18626>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 9, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/mobile-app-or-mobile-website-detection-of-appium-being-used/18626 "2017-09-09T00:57:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![daluu](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/daluu/32/8681_2.png) [@daluu](https://discuss.appium.io/u/daluu)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/mobile-app-or-mobile-website-detection-of-appium-being-used/18626/1 "2017-09-09T00:57:07Z")

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Came across this Selenium topic today: [https://groups.google.com/d/topic/selenium-users/96uutBGWHdM/discussion](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/selenium-users/96uutBGWHdM/discussion)

and it made me wonder if there’s a mobile equivalent RE: about an app detecting it’s being controlled (whether written in native code, or web view based app or something build like with ReactNative/PhoneGap/etc.) or a mobile website detecting it’s being controlled (by appium).