I managed to solve this by going into the target's build settings and I noticed that my watch app's "Supported Platforms" setting was set to iOS in its release version, as soon as I changed it back to watchOS the icon error went away. I guess since the release version was set to iOS XCode was looking for a different type of icon set.
Still, they should include a more descriptive error message 🤔
asyncballerina
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