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The thing I didn’t get with the new icon composer was first, how do I even add it to a project, embarrassing how long it took me😂. And now I’m thinking about how the icon will look on older iOS versions. Like where do I specify that I only want the glass icon in the new iOS and old icon for before?

Yes, I had the same problem, the WWDC video skips over what you’re supposed to do. In theory, the icon is backwards compatible so you only get the glass effect on iOS 26. In practice, seems there are some rendering issues on older versions.

Yeah, I also feel that I want a different icon for before, as I’ve now changed the icon to optimize it for 26, but would prefer that the icon for 18 & before stays the same it is right now. I do not think that the new glass icon looks good on older versions without glass.

I just read your article about this. I got alternate icons to work as expected. The trick is that you still need to declare the alternate icons in Info.plist, and you still need to enable Include All App Icon Assets in Build Settings.

Interesting, will have another look. To be clear you didn’t have to add the icons to the asset catalog?

No, I did not.