I know what the apple touch icon is, and I have seen an apple desktop before, so I can imagine what it would look like. I also know how to add an apple touch icon to my site
When somebody using an iOS device visits your web-page and decides to "bookmark" your page by affffding your page to their Home screen the apple touch icon is used. It is like a favicon for browsers but has higher resolution and "might be designed" to match app icons ...
to avoid 404 error on NGINX
Location ~* /apple.*.png$ {
rewrite ^.+$ /images/blank.gif last
}
Many log investigate to find that: whatever you have specified paths to apple-touch-icon files in the <head>
, Safari will search these files at the domain's root when you add a bookmark/home screen shortcut:
/apple-touch-icon.png
/apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png
/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
/apple-touch-icon.png
Yes, 2 times the same file (tried on an iPhone 6).