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# UIApplicationShortcutIcon

An image you can optionally associate with a Home Screen quick action to improve its appearance and usability.

```
class UIApplicationShortcutIcon
```

## Overview

To associate an icon with a quick action, pass it to the quick action item’s initialization method, as described in [`UIApplicationShortcutItem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutItem).

There are three types of quick action icon:

- An icon from a system-provided library of common types, as described in the [`UIApplicationShortcutIcon.IconType`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/IconType) enumeration
- An icon derived from a custom template image in your app’s bundle and preferably in an asset catalog (see <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Xcode/managing-assets-with-asset-catalogs>)
- An icon representing a contact in the user’s address book, which you access through the <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ContactsUI> framework

## Topics

### Creating a quick action icon

[`+  iconWithType:`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/init(type:))

Creates a Home Screen quick action icon using a system-defined image.

[`+  iconWithTemplateImageName:`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/init(templateImageName:))

Creates a Home Screen quick action icon based on an image in your app’s bundle, preferably in an asset catalog.

[`+  iconWithSystemImageName:`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/init(systemImageName:))

Creates a Home Screen quick action icon using a system symbol image.

[`+  iconWithContact:`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/init(contact:))

Creates a Home Screen quick action icon from the picture for a contact or a monogram of the contact name if the picture is unavailable.

### Constants

[`IconType`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon/IconType)

Constants for system-provided icons.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`NSCopying`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCopying)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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