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Asked: 2026-06-06T14:14:34+00:00

I’ve read countless threads, blog posts, and other documentation online about this, yet I

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I’ve read countless threads, blog posts, and other documentation online about this, yet I cannot get it to work. I’ve spent hours researching this and trying different things.

I’m trying to get a splash screen image to show for a web app on the iPad 2. I’m not even concerned with the iPad 3 resolution yet.

These are the tags that I have:

<link href="images/splash_748.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape)" rel="apple-touch-startup_image">
<link href="images/splash_768.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:portrait)" rel="apple-touch-startup-image">

splash_748.png is 748×1024

splash_768.png is 768×1004

The portrait mode splash screen works just fine. The landscape version will not show. Does anyone have any ideas? I’ve tried over a dozen different ways to do this. None of them have worked.

I’ve been deleting the app and clearing Safari’s cache each time I make an update. Then I go back to the web page and send it to the home screen. This seems to pick up changes in the images, so I can’t imagine it’s caching anything else.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your code has a mistake in it. Look at the end of the first line 

    rel="apple-touch-startup_image"

    it should be 

    rel="apple-touch-startup-image"

    notice the _ should be a –

    Edit: Heres my code for iOS web apps – covers most eventualities and seems to work on most devices but don’t hold me to it 🙂

    <!-- iOS Device Startup Images -->
<!-- iPhone/iPod Touch Portrait – 320 x 460 (standard resolution) -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="images/ios/iphone-startup-320-460.png" media="screen and (max-device-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1)" />

<!-- iPhone/iPod Touch (high-resolution) Portrait – 640 x 920 pixels -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="images/ios/iphone-startup-640-920.png" media="screen and (max-device-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" />

<!-- iPad Landscape 1024x748 -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" sizes="1024x748" href="images/ios/ipad-startup-1024-748.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1)" />

<!-- iPad Portrait 768x1004 -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" sizes="768x1004" href="images/ios/ipad-startup-768-1004.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:portrait) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1)"/>

<!-- iPad (high-resolution Landscape – 2048 x 1496 pixels ) -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" sizes="2048x1496" href="images/ios/ipad-startup-2048-1496.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" />

<!-- iPad (high-resolution) Portrait – 1536 x 2008 pixels -->
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" sizes="1536x2008" href="images/ios/ipad-startup-1536-2008.png" media="screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" />

<!-- iOS Icons -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="images/ios/icon-57.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="images/ios/icon-72.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="images/ios/icon-114.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="images/ios/icon-144.png" />
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