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How to Add Icons for iPhone, iPad & Android to Your Website

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With the icons on older iOS versions you had to determine if you were going to use apple-touch-icon-precomposed vs letting apple apply some effects to your icon. That is no longer a concern. You’ll just need to create a square icon and it will round the edges for you.

Here is a table of the current iOS icon sizes from Apple:
Next you’ll just add a simple bit of code to the HEAD of your site so the devices can find your images (iOS will find these automatically if they are in your site’s root directory and named this way, but it’s recommended to include it). Android uses the two icons with rel=”icon” and apple uses the ones prefixed with “apple-“:

<link href="http://www.yoursite.com/apple-touch-icon.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" />
 <link href="http://www.yoursite.com/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" /> 
<link href="http://www.yoursite.com/apple-touch-icon-167x167.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="167x167" /> 
<link href="http://www.yoursite.com/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" /> 
<link href="http://www.yoursite.com/icon-hires.png" rel="icon" sizes="192x192" /> 
<link href="http://www.yoursite.com/icon-normal.png" rel="icon" sizes="128x128" />

Make the first apple one the 120 x 120.

If you don’t want to create all these images, you should at least create the larger resolution ones. That way they’ll look good on the hi-res devices. The older devices will load the closest size available to their required size and shrink them down (this works but isn’t ideal if you want complete control and the fastest download).

If you’re creating your iOS icon image you can find templates for use around the web. Note that you’ll only need some of the icons represented in these templates unless you’re releasing an app in the App Store.


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