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How can I make my iPhone app icon for iPhone in iTunes?

I have an iPhone app with the Icon.png icon file.

This icon displays correctly when the application is on the phone itself, but it does not appear on the application bar in iTunes.

What do I need to do so that it displays correctly?

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Oct 06 '08 at 5:07
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The cleanest way to do this is described in Apple's official documentation in Publishing Testing Applications . Below are the exact instructions given to you on this page:



The iTunes image that your testers see should be your application icon. This artwork should be 512 x 512 JPEG or PNG file named iTunesArtwork . Please note that the file must not have the extension .

After creating your application icon file, follow these steps to add it to the application:

  • Open the project in Xcode.
  • In the Groups and Files list, select the Resources group.
  • Choose Project> Add To Project, go to the iTunesArtwork file and click Add.
  • In the dialog that appears, select the "Copy items" option and click "Add."


Note that a PNG or JPEG file is simply “iTunesArtwork” without a suffix.

If you try to copy the file to the application package after creating it, it will break the subscription to the application and you will receive an error when trying to synchronize with your device. Ensure that the artwork file is included in the “Copy Resources” folder as part of the project’s target in Xcode (step 4 above).

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May 14 '09 at
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Create 512x512 png of your icon, name it "iTunesArtwork" (without extension, without quotes) and add it to your project in the "Resources" section. Then follow.

More details here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/000-Introduction/introduction.html

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Jan 28 '09 at 2:29
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To make it easier for those who have arrived at this post, here are the real instructions (right from the blog post related to the accepted answer).



Twitter talks about how to create your own IPA file for your iPhone application, so I thought that I would give the instructions that I used to create the IPA before. Enjoy it.

  • Create a folder on your desktop called "working". Open it and create another folder in it called "Payload" (case sensitive)
  • Move the iTunesArtwork file to the "work" folder and your .app to the "Payload" folder.
  • Open a terminal and run the following command: chmod -R 775 ~ / Desktop / Desktop / Payload
  • Go to the ProgName.app folder in the "Payload" section.
  • Double-click the Info.plist file. Make sure there is an element called: SignerIdentity with the value: Signing Apple iPhone OS application. If not, add it.
  • Remember everything. Replace iTunesArtwork and Payload. (So ​​zip up what's inside the working folder)
  • Rename the zip file to have the desired name, and the ipa extension.
  • Double click to install using iTunes
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Jan 27 '09 at 17:44
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In fact, iTUnes icons can be provided for iPhone software released as ad-hoc. See this blog post for more information.

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Oct. 06 '08 at 10:26
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I will just add my recent experience. I cheated by trying to make my special application appear in iTunes with an icon (strictly iTunesArtwork). Finally, I was convinced that I had followed the instructions for the “T,” but it still didn't appear as a grid. However, my illustrations were correctly displayed in the Cover Flow view. I uninstalled and reinstalled my application from / to iTunes to no avail. Then I left iTunes and restarted - and, voilà! - my work was correct in all places. There seems to be some kind of caching that is not reset in the Grid view.

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Jul 29 2018-10-10T00:
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If you see a black icon instead of the icon in iTunes, make sure the iTunesArtwork file type in Xcode is not "image.png". If this is the case, during the build phase of the CopyPNGFile copy resource, the file will fail, which is not valid for iOS partitions.

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Mar 08 2018-11-11T00:
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  • Open the project in Xcode.
  • Copy the iTunesArtwork.png file to the project folder.
  • Edit the iTuneArtwork.png file and remove .png from iTunesArtwork.
  • Create assembly.

You can see the image in iTunes.

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May 29 '15 at 7:18
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The app icon only appears in iTunes if your app is distributed through the app store.

I assume that you are asking about a developer or special build. Users receive a black “A” by default.

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Oct 06 '08 at 5:32
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