When I try to add the Icon from my website to my Home Screen, IOS merely captures of Screen Shot of the page I'm on & doesn't place the Icon. Can anyone help me make my Website Icon appear as a Home Page Icon vs. a screen shot of the page I'm on?
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.3
Could you provide a screenshot of what you are seeing? Adding a page to the home screen from within Safari will create an icon with a view of the screen you are viewing at the time, not a special icon.
Apple displaying "Screen Shot" of page rather than displaying icon designed for the site... Android shown below displaying proper icon.
Android showing icon image
Hope this illustration helps what I'm trying to achieve in the iOS world. Thank you!!!
I see what you are trying to do. This is the way adding a bookmark to the home screen has always been. I would say that is some type of coding difference between Safari and whatever browser you are using with your Android device. That is something you may want to take up with the website developer. I've not seen an icon be generated in that manner on an iPhone.
Thanks. I was able to get this to work on earlier versions of iOS, but over the past year or so I lost the ability to get the icon to download to the Home Screen. You've given me a good indication that I need to look into Safari and the way it handles icons. Thanks so much for your thoughts ChrisJ4203!!!
Hi there,
i hope I could get some help here. I've long known that we can add a safari weblink to our iOS home screen but recently when I used it on my iPad Pro something weird happened.
The added "web-app" is simply mirroring my safari app. Both are just mirroring each other. (for webpages and even tabs.) That just defeats the purpose of having this function. Is it a current bug?
Using: iPad Pro 12.9 WIFI Cellular with iOS 10.1.1
Thanks!
icon for website not showing on home screen
