How to do it?
UIPrerenderedIcon removes glossiness only for springboard icons.
Has your binary been uploaded and approved by Apple?
In my experience, until you upload your binary, iTunes Connect and Game Center don't know that you want gloss to be turned off. They get this info from your app plist after you upload it. After your game goes live, the glossiness should be gone (that's what happened for me, anyways).
I guess you can't. Remember that the icon on App Store is glossy, too. And the "gloss" on Game Center includes shadow, border, and a lot of other effects.
Like previously answered you can't remove the glossiness as that is added automatically by the device it is running on.
Potentially you could design your game icon with a 'inversion' of the gloss effect applied?
That way in Game Center your game icon would appear as normal once the gloss effect is overlaid.
With regards to the SpringBoard, you would turn off the UIPrerenderedIcon flag so it would also appear correctly.
This is what you need to do to stop gloss from appearing on your iPhone app icon. (same thing that #Coxy was saying, just in more detail): When you are in Xcode, open the "Resources" folder and open the file "yourAppName-info.plist". Add a new item to the list of properties and in the "Key" column type in UIPrerenderedIcon. Click away and the name will change to "Icon Already Includes Gloss Affects". In the "Value" column, make sure the box is checked and it should leave the icon with no gloss. I tested it and it works fine on the homescreen icon, and therefor it should work with the GameCenter icon as well. NOTE: If you leave no icon for the app it stays glossy. There needs to be an icon file for it to show up with no gloss.
Just include a row in the plist file "Icon already includes gloss effects" and check the checkbox. Hope will do this.
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I have an iPhone only app but it works in compatibility mode in the iPad too(no surprises).
but after I updated the app for the ios11, app icon on the iPad is missing.
here is what I've tried;
- launch on the iPhone simulator, icon appears
- launch on the iPad simulator, icon is missing
change the device options from "iphone" to "universal", run the iPad simulator, icon appears but app needs a new iPad ui.
change back to "iPhone" and the app icon is missing again in iPad. really confusing.
I tried to create a new project and make the same changes but never able to make the icon missing again.
I'm using cocoa pods if that makes any sense.
I think I'm missing a settings or something else, I'm really trying to find it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've found the problem.
In info.plist, there was an extra or problematic entry.
- CFBundleIcons~ipad
Remove this line and iPad icons appear normally.
This problem has been reported by many users over the past 6 months (including desperate pleas to Apple to fix this bug), yet no one's reported the following solution.
I'm using Xcode 9.2, and I noticed today that my iPad/iPhone's application will run fine on my iPad (iOS v11.2.1) but the icon is missing.
This is a legacy app, about 2-3 years old, and the cause seems to be my Appicon file. When I view this file, I see this:
Previously, this resource was sufficient to provide the app icon for both the iPad and iPhone, but apparently, not anymore.
I went into my Images.xcassets file, right-clicked, and selected "App Icons & Launch Images\New IOS App Icon" and now have a look at the extra icon possibilities:
Notice the extra icons for iPads.
Sure enough, I created yet more .png files, with resolutions matching the desired iPad resolutions settings, and now, when I build my app and run it on the iPad, it does show the correct icon.
Oh, and I also needed to go into my project's build settings, select the "General" tab, and change the "App Icons Source" to the name of my new image set, "AppIconNew".
Et voila. No messing around with Cocoapods, no need to change the .plist file (mine didn't have that "CFBundleIcons~ipad" entry anyway), I just needed to create a new image set.
Okay, time to go back to my modern, cosy world of using Visual Studio again now.
(Happy sigh..)
I've had a few legacy apps that did have the CFBundleIcons~ipad in the Info.plist, so I check that first. However, I've also had instances where it was just missing the asset as #Mike Gledhill mentioned. If this is the case, you don't have to go through adding a new AppIcon set. Just check the iPad box in the Attributes Inspector for the current AppIcon assets and the iPad sizes will show in the current set. Then just add the correct assets for each size requirement.
I didn't have CFBundleIcons~ipad entry in my Info.plist file as per "karpat"s answer. So I moved to "Mike Gledhill"s answer, then after observing my all the icons from Image assests, I found that for particular icon which was invisible only on iPad, the device type set was iPhone.
I just changed device type by right cling on image set to Universal :
This did work for me.
I have a 120x120 icon image that's working fine on emulators - however when I try it on my device, the icon doesn't show up. Any thoughts?
I figured it out. This was actually really annoying. So the UI designer had simply renamed his .psd files with .png and xcode thought this was fine. However, renaming the .pngs isn't going to automatically make them real .pngs. The way I solved this was going to mac preview and exporting the files to the PNG format.
Sometimes some of the images get cached by the OS.
Delete your app completely from your mobile device (press and hold, then delete the app)
Turn off your device and turn it on again.(This ensures that the cache gets cleared)
In xCode, clean the project and rebuild.
Load the software again you your device.
You should be able to see your icon as long as its properly added to your project.
Drag your app over another app to group both into a folder. Then drag the app out of the folder.
Check your info.plist file. Make sure the icon entry looks something like this (use your own image file names of course):
If you see another "Icon already includes gloss effects" row outside, remove it.
It is not uncommon not to see your app icon on the device. However, when your app is being uploaded to the App Store, everything will be fine.
Is your iOS device running iOS7? If not, you will need to include 57x57 and 114x114 icons as well. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/18737063/1646862 for icon sizes apple requires. It is always good to include all icon sizes you may need in your iOS bundle.
Below is my icon image and icon as it looks on the device screen. They look different, can someone explain why?
You can remove the gloss from the icon by setting a property in your Info tab of the Project setting in XCode.
Set "Icon already includes gloss effects" to YES to remove the Apple provided gloss.
You have no choice about the rounded corners.
To remove the gloss you must make several changes to your app's info.plist file - one change for iOS 3 and 4, and another set of changes for iOS 5.
See my answer here.
Xcode automatically applies gloss effect to the icons as well as rounded corners.. this looks better than yours.. :) You have any problem?
I have an icon (57x57 pixels) which I copied to recources folder and added it to info.plist
but I don't see it on iPhone.
Can someone help me?
The bible of app icons is Apple's QA1686. If you're sure that the file's in your project, and named in the Info.plist, my next question would be: is it a PNG file?
Once in a while I have noticed that if you add an icon to your app and then run the app on your phone or on the simulator, that the icon will not show up. If this happens, I usually have to manually remove the app from the device or simulator to get the icon to appear.
I've seen many apps in the app store who's icons on the iPhone Springboard do not have the default rounded corners and "glass effect" that are created by default when I just add a 57x57 png to my resources and specify it in the plist. Does anyone know how to NOT get the iPhone to add the attributes to my application icon image when I compile and load it on the iPhone?
If you go edit your info.plist file, there is a property called UIPrerenderedIcon, it'll be set to false, if you change it to true, the phone won't process your icon before displaying it. You'll also have to round the corners yourself as well I believe.
take a look at: http://iosdevelopertips.com/general/remove-shine-gloss-effect-on-iphone-icon.html
It's all in what you search for: flat iphone icon
Add this to info.plist:
UIPrerenderedIcon : true
Brandon might appreciate a thank you: http://blog.quazie.net/2009/05/flat-iphone-icon-aka-get-rid-of-icon-shine/
Set UIPrerenderedIcon in your info.plist to true.
As a key in plist this is now "Icon already includes gloss effects" YES or NO, where if your select YES XCode does not apply the gloss effect..