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RobWuijster
Iron Contributor
Aug 04, 2020

PWA icon?

Hi, What does Edge use as a icon, when creating a PWA from a website? We created some PWA's of our websites for testing, but all of the PWA's just show a letter on a gray background. In Android, ...
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Reza_Ameri-Archived
Bronze Contributor
Aug 07, 2020

RobWuijster in case you are facing this issue with other websites, you need to contact website owner and ask them to add icon on their websites.

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geoken2
Brass Contributor
Dec 23, 2020

There should definitely be a built in way to override this. It seems like a stretch to have to reach out to the owner of a website and have them add a favicon for what amounts to a change on the users end.

 

This is especially true when a site actually displays an icon correctly in the browser (since the browser is presumably looking at the link rel=icon tag).