Icon Composer
As part of the sweeping design changes introduced during Worldwide Developer Conference 2025, Apple introduced Icon Composer, which lets you create layered icons using Apple’s Liquid Glass material for all Apple platforms simultaneously. Icons created with Icon Composer have a new multilayer format, and you can adjust Liquid Glass properties and preview dynamic lighting effects for each layer. When you’re done, you can add the icon to your project in Xcode.
In this chapter, you will build an icon for the JRNL app using Icon Composer. First, you’ll use Apple’s Keynote app to create different image files for each layer of the icon. Next, you’ll add the images to Icon Composer and adjust the properties for each layer. Finally, you’ll add it to your project.
By the end of this chapter, you’ll have learned how to use Icon Composer to create icons for your own apps.
The following topics will be covered:
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