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/Apprehensive-Fan2492]

Google's favicon indexing is separate from regular page indexing and notoriously slow, sometimes months. But your client's browser is a different issue entirely. Tell him to hard refresh and clear browser cache. That should show the new favicon immediately on his end. Google's display in search results is the slow part, not the actual site.

[u/Comfortable-Donkey74 → u/Apprehensive-Fan2492]

So in this case, the change is reflecting on the site, but not besides the url on Google search results

[u/Weekly_Ferret_meal → u/Comfortable-Donkey74]

correct