App icon produced by Xcode 26 is 1 MB bigger than Xcode 16

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?

App icon produced by Xcode 26 is 1 MB bigger than Xcode 16
 
 
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