# "apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png is ill-formed" error

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587 "2018-06-08T09:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gabrielle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/gabrielle/32/183_2.png) [@Gabrielle](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gabrielle)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/1 "2018-06-08T09:13:49Z")

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I got a great tip here ages ago on favicons, so now I always create my favicons and open graph image using [https://realfavicongenerator.net/](https://realfavicongenerator.net/). I love it. However, I always seem to have the same problem with the IOS Safari icon (see attached screen grab). No matter if I generate a jpg or a png I always get this error: …apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png is ill-formed.

Has anyone else found this or is it just me?

 ![favicon](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/6/63070f38ac078feee25f7df0d6c13beddb55250c.jpg)

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**Author:** ![yuzool](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/yuzool/32/195_2.png) [@yuzool](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/yuzool)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/2 "2018-06-10T05:38:13Z")

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Usually this works for me @Gabrielle using this site

Are your images square?  
Any transparency in the image?

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**Author:** ![Gabrielle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/gabrielle/32/183_2.png) [@Gabrielle](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gabrielle)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/3 "2018-06-13T19:32:48Z")

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Hi Michael, Always square yes and I’ve tried with flat jpgs and flat pngs but it always comes up with the same error, how weird IS that?

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**Author:** ![yuzool](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/yuzool/32/195_2.png) [@yuzool](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/yuzool)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/4 "2018-06-13T22:11:34Z")

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Very weird 🧐  
How about trying another generator like:

[https://www.favicon-generator.org](https://www.favicon-generator.org)  
[https://www.favicongenerator.com](https://www.favicongenerator.com)

Hope you can fix it!

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**Author:** ![Gabrielle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/gabrielle/32/183_2.png) [@Gabrielle](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gabrielle)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/5 "2018-06-18T15:53:14Z")

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Thanks for that I’ll take a look 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/apple-touch-icon-precomposed-png-is-ill-formed-error/20587/6 "2018-07-19T02:05:47Z")

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