Find all available images for Image(systemName:)

Question

Where can I find all the system images that are available in the initializer Image(systemName:)?

I've only been using "chevron" and "star.fill" so far, as discovered in Apple's SwiftUI tutorial series. However, I haven't been able to find a full list of icons in any official documentation.

Wagtail

You can download the full kit from the developer portal – Shaunta

Look here, it´s in the Apple guide lines for SF symbols: developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/… – Hadria

I searched all through those documents looking for "star.fill" and found nothing. Where are these listed? I can open FontBook and scroll through pages of symbols under SF Pro Display (for example), but I don't see "star.fill" and if you want to use one of those symbols - how?? – Negligible

Answer 1

These icons are called SF Symbols. There are over 3,300 symbols you can use in iOS 13 and later, macOS 11 and later, watchOS 6 and later, and tvOS 13 and later. You can use a symbol everywhere you can use an image.

To browse the full set of symbols, download the SF Symbols app. For more info about SF Symbols check here.

History of SF Symbols updates:

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SF Symbols 2 introduces over 750 new symbols and includes:

• Over 150 preconfigured, multicolor symbols that automatically adapt to vibrancy, accessibility settings, and appearance modes
• Negative side margins in both standard and custom symbols, giving you greater control over horizontal alignment
• Localized symbol variants for right-to-left writing systems, as well as script-specific symbols for Arabic, Devanagari, and Hebrew

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SF Symbols 3 features over 600 new symbols, enhanced color customization, a new inspector, and improved support for custom symbols.

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SF Symbols 4 features over 1000 new symbols, variable color, automatic rendering, and new unified layer annotation. These new symbols are available in apps running iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9.

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Usage

UIKit:

let heartImage = UIImage(systemName: "heart.fill")

SwiftUI:

let heartImage = Image(systemName: "heart.fill")

Stupor

Thank you, but your link is for the old version, it was missing one symbol from an Apple tutorial I was using (paintpalette). Current version (2.1) here: developer.apple.com/sf-symbols – Slider

Typical Apple, you have to use their app to do it... – Hydro

Answer 2

The App by 

Apple has a dedicated App for this called SF Symbols. You can download the latest version from here to browse the full set of symbols.

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Xcode 14

You can preview all symbols right from the Xcode app using the Library.

command + shift + L

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Important Note

You should always stay with the app to have new symbols available for Preview, Export and enjoy. The export option is only available from the SF Symbols app.

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Backward compatibility.

If you need to use new symbols like the new multi-color ones that introduced in SF Symbols 2.0 for iOS 14 and above, you can export them using the app itself and import them as assets in the project. Step 1 and 2 of this answer shows how you can export symbols to use it for older iOS versions

Callus

Thanks for this. It's ridiculous that this app is not available in the Mac App store, or delivered as part of Xcode. – Pogy

@GregBrown it will be available (partially) from the Xcode 14 – Callus

I don't have that right tab (Symbols) on the Library... – Illustrator

Answer 3

You can use SF Symbol Images in SwiftUI

Image(systemName: "person")

Download Link : https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

Epigram

Most applications do not use these symbols. That may be the reason. – Epigram

Apple provides them and having standard images across apps makes it easier for users when they recognize familiar symbols. I just think it would be more Apple-like to provide them. – Negligible

The SF Symbols app is free and made by Apple, not by a third-party. It is for designers too, not just developers. – Haemo

Answer 4

Assuming you have Xcode installed, you can also preview all the images without needing to download a separate app.

The trick is you need to view them in a Storyboard, not a SwiftUI Canvas.

Add a UIImageView to your storyboard, then press the dropdown arrow near Image. You'll see the entire list of images provided by Apple:

Copy the name of an image, and then use it just like other answers mention above:

Image(systemName: "square.and.arrow.up")

Acarid

And then? How will we use them in SwiftUI? – Siderite

in SwiftUI you use it as in the statement above: Image(systemName: "SystemImageName") – Cherokee

Answer 5

Slightly quicker and easier variant of Sensesful's answer:

When in storyboard view, click the add button at the top of the screen. If you click the image icon in the dialog that opens, you can scroll through all system icons. You can then use them by referncing the icon name in UIImage(systemName: iconName).

Tested in Xcode 12.5.

Reddy

Answer 6

Take a look at this Swift Package SFSafeSymbols

You can access all the SF Symbols from an enum

static func getRandomSFSymbol() -> SFSymbol {
    return SFSymbol.allCases.randomElement() ?? SFSymbol.xCircle
}

Kalidasa

I'm seeking the way to do the same in the versions below iOS 13.0, so SFSafeSymbols did not helped – Flacon

SF Symbols aren’t available in iOS 12 and below. What you will have to do is take that enum from the library I mentioned and then you will have to join it with an array image names where the images are the SF Symbols you export as images. For even better results you can export the symbols as SVG – Kalidasa

Thank you. I tried to copy SF Symbol into the string and add it directly into Label or Button - without success. At the end - exported to PDF and inserted as vector image - it helped. – Flacon

Yeah the code and font symbols actually don't exist on iOS 12 and below.. So you can't get them from the OS. You have to provide them – Kalidasa

Answer 7

You can also found all names here:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/sf-symbols/overview/

Nicaea

Answer 8

I thought you could do it in xcode, but Apple recommends downloading https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/

With over 3,300 symbols, SF Symbols is a library of iconography designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco, the system font for Apple platforms.

Attain

Answer 9

SF Symbols is the system icon framework in iOS 13+.

We can find complete icon list at:

https://sfsymbols.com

Unfortunately the site is NOT allowed by Apple  license, to show and/or preview the images directly, but the keywords there are all we need to generate our own list with preview (at least all someone-like-me needs).

WARNING: SF-Symbols have strange usage rules, and anyone worried, should simply find another free icon alternative.

Like: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons
Or: https://github.com/jossef/material-design-icons-iconfont
(with Apache 2.0 license, without any attribution need)

Slam

Why use this instead of the official Apple-provided app? – Pogy

@GregBrown For example, someone may only have debug permission on the iPhone (like me at time of writting), or have not access to iOS device entirly. – Slam

Either way, I recommend developing international Apps, with international assets. – Slam

@GregBrown In other words, don't ever use things with strange license limitations (and search for Apache or MIT licensed assets, like we did). – Slam

@GregBrown I can think of a number of reasons, mainly ease of access, and quickness, but unfortunately as it states in the answer it is not within the license terms of apple to ease the life of developers, just pretend they're cool. – Shushan