iOS app icon with transparent background showing b

Question

I have added an icon to my app. It has rounded edges and no background. The problem is that when I run an app on my device (iPhone 5) the icon has a black background behind the edges as if it wasn't transparent. Any solutions?

Answer 1

From the apple developer website after a quick search:

Avoid transparency. An app icon should be opaque. If the icon’s boundaries are smaller than the recommended sizes—or you use transparency to create “see-through” areas—the resulting icon can appear to float on a black background, which tends to look especially unattractive on the beautiful wallpapers that users choose.

https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/icons-and-images/app-icon/

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