diff --git a/.changeset/lazy-pumas-repeat.md b/.changeset/lazy-pumas-repeat.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cfad7d6b2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/lazy-pumas-repeat.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'livekit-client': patch
+---
+
+Wait for the first video frame in waitForDimensions on iPadOS, which reports a desktop user agent
diff --git a/src/room/track/LocalTrack.ts b/src/room/track/LocalTrack.ts
index de17a58e31..d051b1ec6f 100644
--- a/src/room/track/LocalTrack.ts
+++ b/src/room/track/LocalTrack.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { debounce } from '../debounce';
 import { DeviceUnsupportedError, TrackInvalidError } from '../errors';
 import { TrackEvent } from '../events';
 import type { LoggerOptions } from '../types';
-import { compareVersions, isMobile, sleep, unwrapConstraint } from '../utils';
+import { compareVersions, isAppleMobile, isMobile, sleep, unwrapConstraint } from '../utils';
 import { Track, attachToElement, detachTrack } from './Track';
 import type { VideoCodec } from './options';
 import type { TrackProcessor } from './processor/types';
@@ -227,11 +227,15 @@ export default abstract class LocalTrack<
 
     const started = Date.now();
 
-    if (getBrowser()?.os === 'iOS') {
-      // iOS keeps reporting the camera's sensor frame from getSettings() until the camera has
-      // delivered its first picture, so a portrait capture initially reads as landscape.
-      // Wait for that first frame instead of guessing at a delay.
+    if (isAppleMobile()) {
+      // iOS and iPadOS keep reporting the camera's sensor frame from getSettings() until the
+      // camera has delivered its first picture, so a portrait capture initially reads as
+      // landscape. Wait for that first frame instead of guessing at a delay.
+      // Gated to the Apple capture pipeline rather than run everywhere: elsewhere getSettings() is
+      // already right and the first frame can be hundreds of milliseconds out (measured ~500ms on
+      // macOS Safari), which would be pure added publish latency.
       // https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-js/issues/2099
+      // https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-js/issues/2107
       await waitForFirstVideoFrame(this._mediaStreamTrack, timeout, this.attachedElements);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/room/utils.test.ts b/src/room/utils.test.ts
index a6b3541df0..e515ce8e39 100644
--- a/src/room/utils.test.ts
+++ b/src/room/utils.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 import { ClientInfo_Capability } from '@livekit/protocol';
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { getBrowser } from '../utils/browserParser';
 import {
   ddExtensionURI,
   extractMaxAgeFromRequestHeaders,
   getClientInfo,
+  isAppleMobile,
+  isIPadOS,
   isSVCSimulcast,
   isSVCSimulcastSupportedByServer,
   negotiateDependencyDescriptor,
@@ -367,3 +370,74 @@ describe('usesLegacySVCEncodings', () => {
     expect(usesLegacySVCEncodings()).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe('isIPadOS / isAppleMobile', () => {
+  const stub = (userAgent: string, maxTouchPoints: number) =>
+    vi.stubGlobal('navigator', { userAgent, maxTouchPoints, product: 'Gecko' });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  });
+
+  // measured on an iPad 6 running iPadOS 17: the default (desktop) user agent, maxTouchPoints 5
+  const IPAD_DESKTOP_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.14 Safari/605.1.15';
+  // measured on macOS Safari 26.4: the same shape of user agent, maxTouchPoints 0
+  const MAC_SAFARI_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.4 Safari/605.1.15';
+  const IPHONE_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1';
+  const IPAD_MOBILE_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1';
+  const MAC_CHROME_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+  const ANDROID_CHROME_UA =
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36';
+
+  it('detects an iPad sending the desktop user agent', () => {
+    stub(IPAD_DESKTOP_UA, 5);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(true);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('is the case getBrowser() alone gets wrong', () => {
+    // the gap this exists to close: iPadOS parses as macOS, so `os === 'iOS'` misses it
+    stub(IPAD_DESKTOP_UA, 5);
+    expect(getBrowser()?.os).toBe('macOS');
+  });
+
+  it('leaves macOS Safari alone, where the camera reports correctly and frames are slow', () => {
+    stub(MAC_SAFARI_UA, 0);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('covers iPhones through the existing iOS check', () => {
+    stub(IPHONE_UA, 5);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('covers an iPad set to request the mobile site', () => {
+    stub(IPAD_MOBILE_UA, 5);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('does not fire for a Mac with a touchscreen attached, which is not Safari', () => {
+    stub(MAC_CHROME_UA, 5);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('does not fire on android', () => {
+    stub(ANDROID_CHROME_UA, 5);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAppleMobile()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('does not fire on a desktop safari reporting no touch support', () => {
+    stub(MAC_SAFARI_UA, 1);
+    expect(isIPadOS()).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/room/utils.ts b/src/room/utils.ts
index f3f21a0987..48970ec567 100644
--- a/src/room/utils.ts
+++ b/src/room/utils.ts
@@ -300,6 +300,33 @@ export function isSafariBased(): boolean {
   return b?.name === 'Safari' || b?.os === 'iOS';
 }
 
+/**
+ * iPadOS has sent the desktop Macintosh user agent by default since iPadOS 13, so `getBrowser()`
+ * reports `os: 'macOS'` there and every `os === 'iOS'` check misses it. macOS Safari implements no
+ * touch events at all (`TouchEvent` undefined, `maxTouchPoints` 0) regardless of any touchscreen
+ * attached, so touch capability separates the two. Measured on an iPad 6 / iPadOS 17
+ * (`maxTouchPoints` 5) against macOS Safari 26.4 (`maxTouchPoints` 0).
+ *
+ * Deliberately a separate helper rather than a fix in `browserParser`: iPadOS spoofs the Mac
+ * version too, so reporting `os: 'iOS'` there would leave `osVersion` at `10.15.7` and silently
+ * break {@link isSafari17Based} and {@link isSafariSvcApi}, which compare it.
+ */
+export function isIPadOS(): boolean {
+  if (!isWeb()) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const b = getBrowser();
+  return b?.name === 'Safari' && b?.os === 'macOS' && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * iPhone, iPad and iOS-hosted browsers — everything running the Apple camera capture pipeline,
+ * including iPads that present themselves as a Mac.
+ */
+export function isAppleMobile(): boolean {
+  return getBrowser()?.os === 'iOS' || isIPadOS();
+}
+
 export function isSafari17Based(): boolean {
   const b = getBrowser();
   return (