Incorrect icon resolution on older iPad

Hi,


One of the iPads I use for testing is an old one which can only run iOS 5.1.1. It's no longer even supported by Xcode 7, so I used an older copy of Xcode 5 to test on that device. Everything looked OK, including the 72x72 icon.


Now I submitted my app to the app store, it was accepted, but while the icon looks fine on new devices, it looks awful on the old iPad. So I had a look with iFunBox, and found that the plist file did not include the 72x72 icon in the "Icon files (iOS 5)" entry. It does include 60x60, which is then apparently upscaled by iOS.


The icon is included just fine in CFBundleIcons~iPad, so it looks OK on newer devices.


So I checked my local build done with XCode 7, and indeed, there too the entry was missing. Of course I never caught this because when I built with XCode 5 everything was fine. And when I built with Xcode 7, I couldn't test on the old iPad.


Is this a bug I should report, or have I done something wrong?


Should I just add the "Icon files (iOS 5)" entry manually before submitting a new version? What's the best way?


The app is "Kaodoku" (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kaodoku/id923859724?l=nl&ls=1&mt=8), free download.


Thanks,


Michel Colman

I have compared the two plist files, and the difference appears to be that the app store download lists "AppIcon72x72" as one of the 6 icons in "CFBundleIcons~ipad" while the XCode 5 version lists "AppIcon72x72~ipad.png" as one of the 15 icons. So it seems they simplified the list of icons but broke compatibility there.


Any ideas on how to best fix this in my next update?

Incorrect icon resolution on older iPad
 
 
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