‘pageshow’ is not received when pressing “back” button on Safari on *IPad”

You can check the persisted property of the pageshow event. It is set to false on initial page load. When page is loaded from cache it is set to true.

window.onpageshow = function(event) {
    if (event.persisted) {
        alert("back to page");
    }
};

For some reason jQuery does not have this property in the event. You can find it from original event though.

$(window).bind("pageshow", function(event) {
    if (event.originalEvent.persisted) {
      alert("back to page");
    }
};