Preview

This is how your link will appear when shared on Apple.

The preview is generated from your page's Open Graph meta tags.

Documentary Photography Northern Ireland
DC

Image specifications

Images that don't meet platform requirements may be cropped incorrectly, rejected, or displayed at poor quality.

Each platform has different specifications. Make sure your image meets Apple's requirements shown below.

URL
https://www.davidcleland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FlixelPix-493.jpg
Width
2,000px
Recommended: 1,200px
Height
1,333px
Recommended: 628px
Aspect Ratio
1.5:1
Recommended: 1.91:1
Format
image/jpeg
Recommended: image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, image/gif
File Size
170 KB
Recommended: Under 5 MB

Meta tags

Open Graph tags control how your content appears when shared on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Missing or incorrect tags can result in broken previews, missing images, or unappealing shares that reduce click-through rates.

PropertyYour Tags
TitleDocumentary Photography Northern Ireland
DescriptionDocumentary Photography
URLhttps://www.davidcleland.com/
Typewebsite
Site NameDC
Localeen_US

Page request

When you share a link on Apple, it sends a server-side request, not a browser, to fetch the page's HTML and read the meta tags. This is the request it makes.

curl -vL \
  -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \
  -H 'Priority: u=0, i' \
  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: document' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: none' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \
  'https://www.flixelpix.net/'

Image request

After reading the meta tags, Apple makes a separate request to download the image. Some platforms use a different User-Agent or Accept header for images.

curl -vL \
  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0' \
  -H 'Accept: image/*' \
  'https://www.davidcleland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FlixelPix-493.jpg'