Your app works, but the icon is a placeholder or something you made in five minutes. I design a real one for the iPhone Home Screen, ready to drop into Xcode.
Your icon sits on the Home Screen next to Apple's own apps. It also shows up in search, notifications, Settings and share sheets, often very small. So it has to read at a glance: one simple idea, a few clear shapes, no tiny text.
Since Apple's 2025 Liquid Glass redesign, iPhone icons are built from layers. iOS adds the shine, depth and shadows itself, so the artwork stays clean and the effects come from the system.
iOS wants a square, unmasked 1024 × 1024 pixel icon and rounds the corners to match the device. I never bake the corners in.
People can set icons to light, dark, clear or tinted. iOS makes any look you skip on its own, so I design and check each one.
Icon Composer saves the whole icon as one .icon file. Xcode renders every size from it, and even builds a similar icon for older iOS versions.
The same file gives you your App Store icon. You also get a 1024px marketing PNG for the listing, your website and your launch post, plus SVG and PNG source files.
Is the iPhone app also on iPad or Apple Watch? The same .icon file can cover them. See iPad app icons and Apple Watch app icons. Built it with an AI tool? Read icons for AI-built apps.
iPhone owners can switch every Home Screen icon to a different look. Here is one of my icons in all four, exported straight from Icon Composer.
Light
Dark
Clear
TintedTwo packages — both fully booked right now. The waitlist gets first access.
$99 one-time
You already have an app, a rough logo, a sketch, or a clear concept.
$199 one-time
You're starting from just an app idea or description.
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You design it once, as a 1024 × 1024 pixel square. With an Icon Composer file, Xcode makes every smaller size for you, so there's no folder of PNGs to keep in sync.
No. iOS rounds the corners for you. Apple asks for square artwork, because corners that are already rounded make the edges look jagged. Everything I deliver is square and ready for that.
Yes. Your icon is set up for the light, dark, clear and tinted looks, and you get a preview of each, so it holds up whichever one someone picks for their Home Screen.
Drag the .icon file into your Xcode project and make sure its name matches the App Icon field in your target's General settings. The download includes install notes, plus a prompt you can hand to an AI coding agent so it does this for you.
Yes. That's the $99 Icon Refresh: send your current icon, logo or sketch and I turn it into a polished iPhone icon in 48 hours. Starting from just an idea is the $199 New Icon, in 72 hours.
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