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How to quickly add a web shortcut icon to your iPhone or Android phone Posted by Sarah Bainbridge
Your phones homescreen isn't just for apps, you can also add shortcut icons to websites. This way you will be able to access your favourite sites with a quick tap just as you would with an app icon. For your desktop or laptop computer you will probably be satisfied using browser toolbar bookmarks, which will display the icons of your favourite sites. But for phones it's useful to have a dedicated icon, just like the ones you are used to using. For instance, take a look at the icon that appears on the tab at the top of the Obooko website homepage. See that small orange square with a white 'O' in the centre? It's called a Favicon and is the brand symbol that's usually used for bookmarking and saving to your social profiles. Now you can have a larger version of the symbol to display on your phone's home-screen: it will look just like regular native app icons and will take you straight to the Obooko homepage to pick up some great free reads. The methods we'll show you will also work for any website that has a favicon. Under the hood, in the Obooko website's html code, there is a set of links to these 'touch icons' at different sizes ready to be accessed and downloaded to your particular phone or browser. While each browser has its own steps for performing this task, we have selected the most popular, Safari and Chrome. The following steps are for adding a website shortcut icon to the home-screen of your Apple iPhone (or iPad) or Android phone. We've included some screenshots to assist you. The first image shows you where to look to check if a website has a favicon, which is usually located in the tab above the address-bar.