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Apple touch icon generator

When someone adds your site to their iPhone home screen, iOS uses the touch icon. It must be a full square with no see-through areas, and iOS rounds the corners for you, so this one is drawn that way. Nothing is uploaded: every file is made in your browser.

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Making your icons…

No files yet.

Source

Icon source

Shape

rgb(255, 255, 255) · hsl(0, 0%, 100%)

Style

Background

rgb(37, 99, 235) · hsl(221, 83%, 53%)

135°
0%
18%

Rounding applies to the browser and Android icons. The touch icon and the maskable icon are always full squares.

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Making your icons…

Your files

Your files appear here as soon as the icon is ready.

Site details and code

Shown when someone installs your site as an app. Up to 45 characters.

Used under the icon on a home screen. Up to 12 characters.

Where you will put the files on your site, such as / or /icons/.

Paste these lines inside the <head> of every page.

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" sizes="48x48" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#2563eb">

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How it works

  1. Choose where the icon comes from

    Type one to three characters, pick an emoji, choose a simple shape, or drop in your own PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG. Nothing is uploaded; the picture stays in this tab.

  2. Style it

    Pick a flat colour or a soft gradient, round the corners, and set the padding. The browser tab icon, the phone home screen icon and the Android icon all update as you change a setting.

  3. Check every file

    Each file is listed with its size and what it is for, so you can see that the touch icon fills its whole square and the Android icon keeps your logo inside the safe circle.

  4. Download and paste

    Download the package as one ZIP, with a plain-language README and ready-made snippets, or take the files one by one. Upload the icons to the folder you typed under Site details, then paste the lines for your HTML, Next.js or WordPress head.

Questions about a Apple touch icon

How do I make a Apple touch icon?

The page opens with a circle; change it, the colours, the rounding and the padding as you like, and every file updates at once. Then open Site details and code, choose HTML and copy it. The code already uses the folder /. Give the icon a solid background colour. Transparent areas turn black on an iPhone, which rarely looks intended.

Why does my iPhone icon have no rounded corners in the file?

iOS applies the rounding itself. A pre-rounded file would get rounded twice and show dark or white edges. The touch icon is therefore a plain opaque square on purpose.

Where do I put the files for a Apple touch icon?

iOS follows the link tag first and also tends to look for apple-touch-icon.png in the top folder, so keep the file there unless you set another folder below.

Is anything uploaded when I make a Apple touch icon?

No. The icons for your Apple touch icon are drawn by your own browser from the settings you pick, so nothing is sent to a server, and the page keeps working offline once it has loaded.

Next step

Show your icon and your site in a device frame

Icons are ready, so show the product itself. Place a screenshot in a clean phone, laptop or browser frame, sized for marketplace and social previews.

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About these tools

Small tools, made by Sifency

Sifency is a small studio that builds themes, plugins and web apps. These tools began as the things we kept needing ourselves, so we tidied them up and left them open for everyone. There is nothing to sign up for.