I've recently installed 26.1 Beta 3 alongside stable 26.0.1
When building my app with 26.0.1 the final .ipa size is ~17mb, however after building my app with 26.1 Beta 3 the size has increased up to ~22mb
The main difference is Assets.car blowing from 1.1mb to 5.6mb (or 8.6mb if I include all icons settings). Upon examining I've found new liquid glass .icon file duplicating itself multiple times as png variants (any, dark, tinted, etc).
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks for the post. This is very interesting. Do you have the same issue with Xcode 26.1 beta 2 or just started happening on Xcode 26.1 beta 3? Any chance you have both projects zip we can diff to see the issue?
Thanks,
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
@DTS Engineer sorry for a long reply
Reply form doesn't allow me to attach zips/folders, is this expected?
Here's an example project on github: https://github.com/SubvertDev/app-icon-bug
The setup is pretty basic, I've just added my .icon file to the project and deleted empty AppIcon from assets
To reproduce the bug you can just archive this project on 26.0.1 and 26.1 Beta (I've tested it only on Beta 3 and RC, maybe that bug occurred before, idk)
26.0.1 xcarchive size: 1.8mb
26.1 xcarchive size: 4.2mb
The main difference is Assets.car size (429KB vs 2.9MB)
Here's a screenshot of Assets.car inner images difference (26.0.1 on the left and 26.1 RC on the right)
This behavior is still present after 26.1 release and on 26.2 Beta 1
Thanks for providing that @SubvertDev and the detailed answer. Any chance that before we file a bug you can give Xcode 26.2 beta a try?
To file a bug: Once you open the bug report, please post the FB number here for my reference.
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Thanks for your patience with me on this issue.
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
@DTS Engineer I've tried Xcode 26.2 Beta 1 and the behavior is the same
Filed a feedback: FB20957000
If it's indeed a bug, then I believe it would be worth mentioning about it in Xcode release notes
@SubvertDev I'm also seeing this same problem.
What I've noticed in our app and the left-hand-side of the image you posted is that even on 26.0.1 the rendered icons are already duplicated, which already had a large impact on our binary size. 26.1.1 seems to quadruple them and make the binary size even larger.
Thank you for your post and providing the FB number. The engineering teams are working on your bug and will communicate with you via FB from this point forward.
For more details on when you'll see updates to your report, please see What to expect after submission.
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
Well, I didn't get any notification or response in the feedback, but status did change to "Investigation complete - Works as currently designed".
Is it actually? It's quite hard to believe that we've got x5-x8 size increase for bundled icons. What's the reason behind it? Is it documented somewhere? So many questions..
