When comparing the Assets.car
file of the previous and current versions of my app, compiled with Xcode 16 and 26, respectively, with the Terminal command
assetutil --info MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/Assets.car
I see that the new version contains many more app icons at different sizes, increasing my app's size by 1 MB (not much, but considering that the app is only 6 MB in total...):
{
"AssetType" : "MultiSized Image",
"Name" : "AppIcon",
"NameIdentifier" : 6849,
"Scale" : 1,
"SHA1Digest" : "9D75F76992E9E9E5531A214A4AE282EBD381F7EB903024E00FB25EB42381CC45",
"SizeOnDisk" : 308,
"Sizes" : [
"16x16 index:1 idiom:universal",
"32x32 index:2 idiom:universal",
"64x64 index:3 idiom:universal",
"128x128 index:4 idiom:universal",
"256x256 index:5 idiom:universal",
"512x512 index:6 idiom:universal",
"1024x1024 index:7 idiom:universal"
]
}
The previous one allowed me to add only two sizes:
{
"AssetType" : "MultiSized Image",
"Name" : "AppIcon",
"NameIdentifier" : 6849,
"Scale" : 1,
"SHA1Digest" : "AC782A2FFF9A4B2D563EF64DF41A179583440560F8732A176A8376B31000368E",
"SizeOnDisk" : 248,
"Sizes" : [
"256x256 index:1 idiom:universal",
"512x512 index:2 idiom:universal"
]
}
Is there a way to only ship the strictly necessary app icons sizes while using Xcode 26 Icon Composer, or will all the sizes be required going forward?