Different Home Screen Display name and App Store Name

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Created Apr ’22

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I'm trying to use a slightly longer more descriptive name for my app in the App Store than what is displayed on the Home Screen.

I've set the CFBundleDisplayName in the Info.plist to the shorter version I want appeared on the Home Screen. This works fine for Ad Hoc and Development builds. However, after uploading and installing through Test Flight, the Home Screen name is changed to the longer one in App Store Connect.

I found a few old questions regarding this and I'm pretty certain I have this setup correctly. I wonder if something changed recently with the publishing flow? Or maybe, this is something that only happens in Test Flight? Are there any other PList or export options I need to set to enable this? In my testing I've also verified CFBundleName and CFExecutableName are the shorter version, but doesn't seem to effect what's displayed on the Home Screen.

We are using XCode 13.2.1

Thank You!

Answered by rbk120 in 710207022

I figured this out. Turns out I misdiagnosed what was going on. It is using the CFBundleDisplayName for the Home Screen Icon. However, it's getting truncated when uploaded through Test Flight because Test Flight adds the little blue circle next to the name which pushes the length over the limit. When the App is released and the blue circle goes away, it fits. I imagine this will also happen after app updates, which also adds a circle next to name.

I misdiagnosed this because both the CFBundleDisplayName and App Store Name started with the same 11 characters.

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Claude31 OP

Apr ’22

Could this help ? It's old but I guess still valid.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3437330/bundle-name-executable-name-product-name-anything-else

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Claude31 OP

Apr ’22

If you change in the infoPList localisation files with:

"CFBundleDisplayName" = "AppLongName";

then it will appear on the home screen with the long name.

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rbk120 OP

Apr ’22

Accepted Answer

I figured this out. Turns out I misdiagnosed what was going on. It is using the CFBundleDisplayName for the Home Screen Icon. However, it's getting truncated when uploaded through Test Flight because Test Flight adds the little blue circle next to the name which pushes the length over the limit. When the App is released and the blue circle goes away, it fits. I imagine this will also happen after app updates, which also adds a circle next to name.

I misdiagnosed this because both the CFBundleDisplayName and App Store Name started with the same 11 characters.

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