Why is the grayscale/tinted version of my app icon displaying on the App Store?

I added new dark and tinted variants of my app icon for iOS 18. (It is a single size in Xcode.) Everything works fine when the app is installed — the home screen uses the correct version of the app icon depending on the appearance. Even in the TestFlight section of App Store Connect, the correct full-color icon is used.

However, in the upper left of App Store Connect, and most importantly on the customer-facing App Store, the grayscale/tinted version of the app icon is now being shown! This is not at all what I want — does anyone know why this is happening and how I can get the App Store to go back to using the regular full-color icon?

It appears that there's currently a problem with the App Store Asset Catalog where it's inadvertently pulling the wrong asset for some users.

Apple's support teams are aware of this problem and are actively working on a fix. In the meantime, there's nothing specific developers can do to resolve this on their end.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Exactly the same issue happening for me. Thank you for looking into it.

The following workaround seems to have worked for me - I noticed that my icon image files were created in different color spaces. The light and the dark files were in RGB whereas the tint version was Gray. And for some reason, App Store Connect was pulling the tint version. So I recreated the tint version. I changed the colors of the elements to grayscale (in the authoring tool), but saved the file in RGB color space. Then re-submitted the binary with the updated icon files to App Store Connect and it seems to have worked. App Store is now extracting the light version from all these apps. Hope that helps.

Thank you so much @ayushv2005 for the suggestion.

Something similar worked for me. I pushed a new update a switching the 3 icons (light, dark and tinted) to PNG format and made the trick. Previously the light icon was in JPEG format and the dark and tinted were in PNG.

Hello, thank you again for these reports. We believe we have resolved this issue. If you continue to experience issues with your App Store icons, please contact us.

Why is the grayscale/tinted version of my app icon displaying on the App Store?
 
 
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