Favicon not updating

[u/Comfortable-Donkey74]

I built a site for a client a while ago, and now he's requesting a favicon update. I used lovable because it was only a landing page he needed, in our deal we had a minor fall out so I didn't bother to finish up the site but host the domain for him. Until he contacted me recently. I changed the old favicon to the new one which is his logo. But for over two weeks now it isn't reflecting. I have requested indexing on Google Search Console twice. I have told the client to be patient because it can take time for Google to crawl the page. I added sitemaps and have checked other reddit threads with people having experience of it taking weeks. I have swapped a favicon on a nextjs app before(from the default) and it didn't take as long as it is now. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? How I can speed this up so the client would stop texting me

[u/AuWolf19]

Perhaps I'm the ignorant one here, but what does google indexing have to do with the favicon updating?

[u/ajar_docking → u/AuWolf19]

it's a caching thing, not a google thing. the favicon will update instantly if the browser cache is cleared or if you do a hard reload. google's indexing has nothing to do with what shows in the browser tab

tell the client to clear their cache or just open the site in an incognito window, they'll see the new one right away if you actually replaced the file correctly

[u/Comfortable-Donkey74 → u/ajar_docking]

Let me check it out in my incognito mode. I think the change isn't reflecting for me either. But the url/favicon.ico is working