Blank App Icon (physical device) - iOS 15 Xcode 13 betas

Hi,

What might one be overlooking when troubleshooting for a build giving the physical device a blank app icon?

I'm loading my SwiftUI iOS app onto an iPhone X with the current Xcode 13 and iOS 15 beta, and the AppIcon shows up properly in the simulator, but comes up blank on my physical device.

I have removed the app before each build, cleaned the build folder and restarted the device. I have not erased the device yet.

The icon files are being generated by apple's PSD file from a 1024x1024 square png and then fed to Xcode via assets, and shows up correctly in its partnering JSON under AppIcon.

The iOS 15 beta simulator seems happy, but my physical device doesn't want any of it (app icon wise).

Thanks for any advice anyone could offer.

-Vlad W.

iOS 15.0 (19A5261w) iPhone X NQCP2LL/A

Xcode 13 Version 13.0 beta (13A5154h) Big Sur 11.4 (20F71) MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)

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  • Has anyone had any luck with fixing this? This is still an issue for me on iOS 15.0.2. Restarting my device has restored the icon but this is not ideal for the user.

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    Nax

  • Update ios to 15.1 fixed the problem for me

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Temporary solution - Restart the device after installing the app on device. AppIcon will then show up on dashboard.

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  • Spent so much time while trying to solve this thinking that the problem was because of the build. But there it is... Also, google displays results for iOS 13 instead of XCode 13. Hope other people will find this too.

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    jloohatik

  • I spent 2 days 😢

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    King93

  • Thank you, saved my day!

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iOS 15 beta 1 (on device) has a problem with app icon cache. For Apple folks: FB9171573.

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Temporary solution - Restart the device after installing the app on device. AppIcon will then show up on dashboard.

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  • Spent so much time while trying to solve this thinking that the problem was because of the build. But there it is... Also, google displays results for iOS 13 instead of XCode 13. Hope other people will find this too.

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    jloohatik

  • I spent 2 days 😢

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    King93

  • Thank you, saved my day!

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    iFadPro

ja

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Matuska
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  • This does not work for me on ipad running ios 15 (GM), but works fine on simulator iphone 13. Restarting the device does not fix the issue for me. Any ideas?

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    owingst

  • same with me, but then I tried to change the names of the icons and it worked!

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Changing the names of the icons worked for me

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  • I face the same issue and restarting doesn't work. Can you please tell how exactly you changed icon names? I tried to change them so they all look like App_icon_29.png and it didn't work (

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    Carbornara

  • so am i facing the same issue after restarting , the app icon still missing , how did you rename icon names , could you tell us how?

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    stevenliew

  • A combination of changing the icon names and restarting my physical device worked for me. Not sure if the new names of the icon files matters, but I went with 29.png, 40@2x.png, etc. So for the full steps I performed: 1. Delete your app from your physical device 2. Back up your iOS app icon asset image files 3. In Xcode, delete your iOS app icon asset (mine was named 'AppIcon') 4. Rename your app icon asset image files. For example, 29.png, 40@2x.png, 60@3x.png, etc. 5. Recreate the iOS app icon asset. You can use the same name as the old asset (i.e. AppIcon) so you don't have to change any other settings. Drag-and-drop your renamed app icon image files into this new iOS app icon asset. 6. Build and install to your physical device. At this point you will still see the generic app icon. 7. Trust your developer app in Settings 8. Restart your device Edit: For me, each subsequent rebuild of the project in Xcode requires me to restart the device for the app icon to show up again. This surely must be a bug.

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    lynton_dev

HI., I have same issue but cant update to new app icon with updated version - Still after update i can see previous app icon while downloaded from TestFlight, But why we need to restart the device - End User cant do all the time. Can please find the permanent solutions.

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has this been resolved?!? I can still recreate this in 13.1

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  • just to be clearer, the app icon does appear when the device is restarted but this is unacceptable for users and for distribution. I have tested this via TestFlight and local run apps, both with the same result, no icon until the device is restarted

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  • Surely this must be a priority for Apple? It's a deal breaker for distribution.

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It's been 6 months and this is still broken. You can create a new project and your app icon will always look empty. This is unacceptable

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efesus
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Is there any update on this issue? We are planning to replace app icons for the app which is already in App Store.

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manjunath014
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Still broken in 15.4.1 on just a build/install. Even cleaning build folder and rebuilding does nothing. After rebuilding 3/4 times, it finally shows.

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Need help fixing TestFlight icon dimensions on our public email link as well as inside the TestFlight Site (top left icon).

Our icons are sized correctly inside the TestFlight mobile app and for my installed app on device so why would the site and email icons be incorrect?

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q21turner
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