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Question

I submitted an app update, but I have received an email telling me this error has occurred:

Missing recommended icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPhone / iPod Touch of exactly '120x120' pixels, in .png format

How can I fix this problem?

Here are the current icon requirements from Apple.

I could not see 120x120 appearing anywhere? Is this iOS 7 specific? Should I include an icon named Icon-120.png or something?

Update: I added three icons to the resource folder (Icon-120.png : 120x120, Icon-76.png: 76x76 & Icon-152.png: 152x152), but it did not add them to the info.plist. The same warning email was received. I decided to not change anything and wait to see what would happen next.

To my utter amazement, the app went into the review stage 20 hours later and was released on the market the very next day! Kind of makes me wonder how many Apple/Windows app review people lurk around here.

Answer 1

This should be called a warning, not an error. At least the email says that the icon file is "recommended" and not "required". You can safely ignore this warning if you target iOS 6. Of course, for iOS 7 you would need the new dimensions and also look out for the new rounding of the icon's corners

Answer 2

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Step 1:

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Step 2 :

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Answer 3

I faced the same issue while submitting the app using Xcode 4.6. It does not recognise the icons with dimension 120x120, 58x58, 29x29, etc. So when I tried to add these icons into the info.plist and submit the app for review, Xcode 4.6 did not allow me to do so. On submitting the app without the above icons, I got a mail saying -

"Your delivery was successful, but you may wish to correct the following issues in your next delivery: Missing recommended icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPhone / iPod Touch of exactly '120x120' pixels, in .png format."

Since, it was recommended and not necessary, I submitted the app anyhow. I added the above recommended icons to the bundle but did not specify them in the Info.plist. I got the same mail again. This time I ignored it and to my surprise the app was accepted.

I wanted my app to run on iOS 5 and above and therefore, I had to use Xcode 4.6 and not the latest Xcode 5 which properly allows only apps for iOS7 and above only.

UPDATE:

NOTE: "Starting February 1st 2014 new apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 5 and iOS 7 SDK". https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12172013a#top

Thus, this scenario will be invalid in future.

Answer 4

I created my AppIcon catalog manually and had all the correct icons in it, but my project was not using it as the icon catalog. On the project's General tab (where you can set the project name and version number), there was an entry for App Icons Source, but no way to select the catalog I created. I had to click the button to create a new catalog, then delete that new catalog, and then the button changed to a menu where I could select the existing catalog.

Answer 5

The accepted answer is great, but here's the short answer:

<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
<array>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>icon.png</string>
    <string>Icon-Small.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>Default.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>icon-72.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>Icon-Small-50.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>Default-Landscape.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>Default-Portrait.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>

New icons below here

    <string>icon-40.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>icon-60.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
    <string>icon-76.png</string>
    <string>[e-mail]</string>
</array>

Found this here by searching for "The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPhone / iPod Touch of exactly '120x120' pixels, in .png format." in Google.

Answer 6

Adding another "Same symptoms, but different solution" response, just in case somebody is having the same problem, but none of the common solutions are working.

In my case, I had an app that started development prior to the instruction of asset catalogs and the flexibility in icon naming conventions, but was first submitted to the store after the transition. To resolve the issue I had to:

1. Delete all the "icon related" lines from the Info.plist
2. Switch back to "Don't use asset catalogs" for both AppIcons and LaunchImages
3. Switch back to asset catalogs for AppIcons and LaunchImages
4. Re-drag&drop the image files into the appropriate locations.