What does the red dot (circle) next to the app name below the app icon mean?
I added a Today Extension (Widget) to the app. It appears only when I launch the app on the iOS 8, it does not appear on iOS 7 simulator. Even though I removed the extension and cleared the simulator, it still appears before the app name.
An Orange dot next to an app normally means it's a beta version, as installed through Testflight. I have a couple of those at the moment, though one looks more red. Trying to find if there's a difference between an orange and a red dot, or if it's just an artefact of the colour of the background image that makes it look red.
The dot you see is actually an orange dot, with transparency. On dark backgrounds it seems like it's red. Try changing to a bright background.
Orange dots for all beta apps that are downloaded from TestFlight and blue dots for recently updated apps from App Store.
Thanks for the question #user5673323221, and the answer by #PhilBowman. As apart from the red colour, there are few more colours as well such as yellow and blue having their specific meaning.
Check this Medium article for them all.
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I have an app which is currently published, this one person reported a problem with an iPhone 7 iOS 13.5.1 where he could not use it, basically the background of a table view cell is completely black where on all other devices is white, because of that and since the text is black, this person can't read anything. Also in the search field he can't see what is being typed, there, the background is white and the text which is supposed to be black is white. We actually got a screenshot which is by the way not very clear but you can see a faded version of the text in both the search field and the table view.
We also have the same model and with the same OS version installed but are not seeing the issue, for now we have only gotten report from this one person.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue that can point me to what the problem maybe?
You need to set your background color to white instead default.
"default" will set your background color in black if the device is in dark mode.
This looks to be an issue where your user has dark mode enabled, but your app appears to use a mixture of hardcoded and semantic colors.
As a quick workaround your can force your app to always use light mode by adding
<key>UIUserInterfaceStyle</key>
<string>Light</string>
to your Info.plist
The icon I'm using with my app looks fine everywhere on my iPhone X except for when it is listed within Suggestions.
At first I thought this was a cached image from when my version 1 app icon did have curved edges resulting in Xcode automatically adding the black border. I deleted the app from my phone before installing the latest version. Unfortunately, even though I am now on version 2 of my app icon which is completely square the black border still lingers within Suggestions.
What am I missing in order to remove this black border from Suggestions?
Using my version 2 app icon
no black border - good
black border - not good
Xcode icon setup
Deploying my iOS application to Testflight results in a grey-ish app icon.
All the icons are PNG files saved without transparency. In XCode 9.0 everything looks fine:
In iTunes Connect the app icons seems to have the right color:
Yet Testflight displays a greyish version of the icon:
The app icon on the home screen looks fine too.
It's the first time I stumpled upon this issue.
Did you encounter this problem?
How did you solve it?
Thank you for your help!
We tried different color profiles, web tools, nothing worked. Then we added red and green numbers to our icons to find out which of the image files was used for the generation of the app icon in Testflight – and suddently the problem disappeared.
As strange as that sounds but adding a magenta dot in the corner of the icon solved the problem.
(The dot is not visible to the user since the corners are rounded)
PLease tell me how can I create app icon for iOS 7 with perfect quality?
Now my two app icons have black artifacts on corners..
Original iPad desktop icon for retina 144x144px without artifacts
I also check "iOS icon is pre-rendered"
What I'am doing wrong? Why Xcode or iOS render my icon with ugly corners?
Please, help..
I generally make my icons square in the first place and then let Xcode handle the curved corners. That way you don't end up with ugly curved black lines.
Your red background is to big, when re-rendering the corners some of the red comes inside the app icon, it looks dark because it is mixed up with the blue.
Create a completely squared app icon, xcode will do the rest and it won't look screwed.
(remove the red background)
This is because your app icon's corner radius and apple's standard corner radius are mismatching. So they filling the gap with black backgound. I suggest you to make a squred icon and dont check iOS icon is pre-rendered unless there is a particular requirement. Another solution is to adjust the icon with some image editor. May be adjusting your corner radius will help you.
I have been trying to solve this app icon color issue all morning. I am still experiencing this after going through both of these highly recommended photoshop/iOS design articles:
http://davidmckinney.com/blog/2013/12/31/designing-iphone-apps-how-to-setup-photoshop
http://bjango.com/articles/photoshop/
Here is the problem that I am having:
When creating my app's icon, the color that I see in Photoshop is the exact same color that I see in xcode's asset catalog. It is also perfect when I run the app on the iOS simulator.
However, when I run my app on my iPhone the app icon's color is always darker.
What's weird, is if I take a screenshot of my iPhone's screen and email it to myself, the color is correct! So for some reason the color is only darker when you are actually looking at the iPhone's screen.
Pardon my ignorance, but this is the first design I have ever done for an iOS app and I don't understand why this is happening or how to fix it.
EDIT: I am now using LiveView after reading this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3597221/3344977
What's funny is no matter how hard I try I cannot get the color I see on my screen to appear on my iPhone screen. It's as if this shade of Pink I'm trying to use just isn't possible to render on an iPhone display.
This is because your iPhone and Monitor screens have different color calibrations (if that's the right term)
You're going to want to setup a color profile on your computer that matches the iPhone screens as closely as possible, and use that when developing icons.
for some reason the color is only darker when you are actually looking at the iPhone's screen
Consider turning up the brightness on your iPhone. Go to Settings->Wallpapers & Brightness to adjust it.
In any case, the issue isn't that the value of the color is changing on your device, it's just that that color value is being rendered differently.
Its because the resolution of your screen is different than your iOS device try it on other device