Hey, I got a response to one of my Feedbacks!
Me: “In Xcode 26 beta 4, if a Mac app included a new Tahoe-style .icon file with the same name as its existing app icon in its .appiconset file, the Tahoe-style .icon would show up in Tahoe and the pre-Tahoe icon from the .appiconset would show up in pre-Tahoe versions of macOS.
In Xcode beta 5, this no longer works. The Tahoe .icon is shown on all versions of macOS.”
(1 month passes)
Apple: "Please know that this is by design.”
Anyway, a month ago I also filed FB19437407: Provide a way for an app to have different app icons in Tahoe and pre-Tahoe versions of macOS
There is a way to do this today using an undocumented command-line option:
1. Name your Tahoe .icon file the same as the name of your existing .appiconset in the Assets catalog.
2. Set the ASSETCATALOG_OTHER_FLAGS build setting to --enable-icon-stack-fallback-generation=disabled
But how long will this work?
@siracusa been fighting this all week. Incredibly lazy and weird of them to not look back.
I heard that if you ship with this flag the AppStore will use your old icon so I'm stripping it out and just doing what they want :(
John Siracusa
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