{"id":2776,"date":"2020-05-07T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:30:56","slug":"ios-home-screen-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/html\/icons\/ios-home-screen-icon","title":{"rendered":"iOS home screen icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On iOS devices using the Safari browser when you add a web page shortcut to your home screen if will display as a screenshot of the website by default.  To use an icon instead do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create your icon as a 180x180px .png file (good for all iOS devices &#8211; those with regular displays and retina displays too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name it: &#8220;apple-touch-icon.png&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upload it to your web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add the following to the head section of your web pages (the href path can be to wherever you have stored the icon):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;link rel=\"apple-touch-icon\" href=\"\/myimages\/apple-touch-icon.png\"&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will also be used by Android devices as a fallback, so is good for both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On iOS devices using the Safari browser when you add a web page shortcut to your home screen if will display as a screenshot of the website by default. To use an icon instead do the following: Create your icon as a 180x180px .png file (good for all iOS devices &#8211; those with regular displays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-ios","category-icons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}