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# CFBundlePrimaryIcon

The app’s primary icon for display on the Home Screen, in the Settings app, and many other places throughout the system.

## Discussion

In your app for iOS, iPadOS, or watchOS, the value is a dictionary that contains the keys and values listed below.
In your app for tvOS or visionOS, the value is a string that names an icon in your app’s asset catalog.

## Topics

### Specifying app icon files

[`CFBundleIconFiles`](/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/CFBundleIcons/CFBundlePrimaryIcon/CFBundleIconFiles)

The names of the icon files in the app’s asset catalog or bundle.

[`UIPrerenderedIcon`](/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/CFBundleIcons/CFBundlePrimaryIcon/UIPrerenderedIcon)

A Boolean value indicating whether the app’s icon files already incorporate a shine effect.

### Customizing the App Shortcuts platter

[`NSAppIconActionTintColorName`](/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/CFBundleIcons/CFBundlePrimaryIcon/NSAppIconActionTintColorName)

The tint color to apply to text and symbols in the App Shortcuts platter.

[`NSAppIconComplementingColorNames`](/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/CFBundleIcons/CFBundlePrimaryIcon/NSAppIconComplementingColorNames)

The names of the colors to use for the background of the App Shortcuts platter.

### Associating an SF Symbol

[`CFBundleSymbolName`](/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/CFBundleIcons/CFBundlePrimaryIcon/CFBundleSymbolName)

The name of the symbol to show in the action sheet, and in Finder’s sidebar on macOS.


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