Apple Touch Icon Precomposed Generator. You’ll just need to create a square icon and it will round the edges for you. For the best practice (imho) and more practical approach, see the excellent cheatsheet suggested by neil robertson below.
The latter allows one to link to an icon that will not have the glossy highlighting applied. For the best practice (imho) and more practical approach, see the excellent cheatsheet suggested by neil robertson below. Apple's own apple.com icon is 129x129!
Hanselman 's and playgroundblues 's comments suggest different sizes including 163x163 and 60x60.
A common practice is to create a single 180x180 icon, which is the highest expected resolution, and let the ios devices scale it down as needed. #!bin/bash # favicon and apple touch icon generator # this bash script takes an image as a parameter, and uses imagemagick to convert it to several # other formats used on modern websites. Iphone und ipad, aber auch android verwenden beim speichern von webseiten als lesezeichen oder auf dem homescreen diese touch icons. The following copies are generated: