Bundle display name missing space characters

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When I give Bundle display name with space as "A B C D", I get the app name as "ABCD". This happens only on the iOS 11.I tried override name"CFBundleDisplayName" in my InfoPlist.string and use special unicode character \U00A0 (No-break space) and it doesn't help me.

Reprobative answered 21/9, 2017 at 7:16 Comment(0)

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This is because of a change Apple made in iOS 11 for truncating for longer app names. If the name is longer than 12 characters, the spaces will be removed. Otherwise, they'll still exist.

For example, Guide book app will become Guidebookapp, but Gui boo app will stay as Gui boo app.

Using unicode   (FIGURE SPACE) works because it isn't an ascii space. I would be hesitant to use this as a solution because it seems reasonable that Apple would "fix" this bug and remove   for apps with names longer than 12 characters.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/77832

Regress answered 8/1, 2018 at 19:9 Comment(3)

Finally an actual explanation of what is happening! Thanks! However strange that there is still no official documentation from Apple about this. – Hydro 10/1, 2018 at 16:42

Thanks. It kept the spaces for 14 characters for me too on iPhone 11 Pro. – Fitter 19/12, 2019 at 0:33

This could be an attempt by Apple to sanitize homoglyph abuse. I use an ASCII7 conversion function in my web applications to strip UTF8 from values that are used as keys. – Beauteous 27/12, 2019 at 19:25

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I have the same issue. Only on iOS 11. On lower iOS version this issue isn't appeared.

I resolved this with:

Open info.plist as Source code(right click, open as...)
Find CFBundleDisplayName
Replace normal space with unicode

That's all. After that display name shows with space.

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  works only when typed in *.plist. Can't be inserted in Display name in Xcode project settings;

Smitty answered 25/9, 2017 at 7:36 Comment(11)

Hi, did you opened a ticket into bugreport.apple.com regarding this? – Strike 2/10, 2017 at 12:54

@AndreaLeganza, no. – Smitty 3/10, 2017 at 9:8

So is this a feature or a bug? In the apple developer forums I could only find threads describing the issue and this workaround, however no official explanation. – Hydro 16/11, 2017 at 8:22

@Dominic, why can it be feature? There is no official information about it. Therefore, it's a bug. – Smitty 16/11, 2017 at 9:15

Note that   is displayed as a double space in the Settings app on iOS 11 and the Home screen on iOS 9 & 10. – Enteric 5/12, 2017 at 13:13

@DaveAlden, Yes, it is. – Smitty 7/12, 2017 at 13:52

Found thread on Apple Forum reason: forums.developer.apple.com/thread/77832. – Smitty 7/12, 2017 at 13:53

simply putting two spaces in the Bundle display name achieves the same effect. – Shoon 21/12, 2017 at 13:21

What about in multiple target context using "InfoPlist.strings" to translate app names ? – Trixie 12/9, 2018 at 11:57

It's make app displayed as a double space on name app title of notification – Velocity 26/10, 2018 at 9:58

@bkit4u, ofc. Like the app name, too. It was notified above. – Smitty 29/10, 2018 at 14:26

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It works for me when I replace space with FIGURE SPACE in InfoPlist.strings manually or with a script.

Propst answered 6/2, 2019 at 13:43 Comment(2)

just copy-paste space from your message and finally got space – Raspings 23/11, 2020 at 12:57

Very odd. It works at my end by copy/pasting "your" space... – Anschluss 4/1, 2021 at 13:45

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Edit info.plist as source code but use   instead of  .   looks like 2 spaces.

Leningrad answered 11/10, 2017 at 14:55 Comment(1)

`  ` works great on iOS 9.0 but doesn't work in present versions of iOS (11+). – Kreindler 4/7, 2019 at 8:34

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In my case this value was missing from info.plist file so I just add the following to it:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME)</string>

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