XF 2.2 How can I force the PWA icons to change

[DigNap15]

Hi
I have set up my PWA, and some of my members have installed it.
But now I want to improve the PWA icons, as they were only quick mock ups
I Put a new PWA icon image in my PWA setup five days ago and the icon has not changed on my mobile phone (Samsung)

Is there a way to force this?

 

[DigNap15]

Any thoughts on this
I have looked on Google and it seems to be a tricky problem

 

[DigNap15]

I think I'll post this in bug as I am getting no response to this
Its not a major bug, but it could upset the marketing of a forum

 

[Paul B]

It's not a bug and just because you don't receive any response from the community, that doesn't make it so.

A quick search would have yielded this:

How Chrome handles updates to the web app manifest

What it takes to change icons, shortcuts, colors, and other metadata in your web app manifest for your PWA.

web.dev

 

[DigNap15]

Thanks for that Brogan, that link looks very informative
Its all about Chrome, which is of course the most popular windows browser
I'm on Firefox
I see they want to add info about other browsers as well

 

[Paul B]

I suspect the behaviour will be the same or similar across browsers.

Doing a specific search for pwa and firefox should yield some results.

 

[DigNap15]

My android phone is still showing an old PWA icon even after I changed it in XF PWA setup 2 weeks ago.

I will do some more work and testing

 

[Paul B]

Uninstalling and reinstalling would likely update it.