{"id":30857,"date":"2020-11-27T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30857"},"modified":"2020-11-27T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T19:43:30","slug":"custom-ios-app-icons-via-launch-center-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/custom-ios-app-icons-via-launch-center-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom iOS App Icons via Launch Center Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/20\/launch-center-pro-customize-app-icons\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/20\/launch-center-pro-customize-app-icons\/\">\n<p>The only problem with this method is that it kicks you to and from the Shortcuts app whenever you open an app with a custom icon, which isn&rsquo;t a great way to optimize usage and can be annoying. However, thanks to the latest update to <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/launch-center-pro\/id532016360\">Launch Center Pro<\/a>, there&rsquo;s now a way to add custom app icons without going anywhere near the Shortcuts app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When you&rsquo;ve finished creating your icons, a downloadable configuration profile is generated by Launch Center Pro that you then need to install on your device.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/launch-center-pro\/id532016360\">Launch Center Pro<\/a> is a free download on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a>, but the Icon Composer is a $20 in-app purchase. In addition, the app offers a $14.49 subscription bundle that includes the icon composer as well as several other features. A free 7-day trial is also available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/10\/19\/21523447\/launch-center-pro-app-custom-iphone-ios-icons-without-apple-shortcuts\">Chaim Gartenberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/launch-center-pro-3-0-review-universal-version-new-business-model-nfc-triggers-and-more\/\">Federico Viticci on Launch Center Pro 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/widgetsmith\/\">Widgetsmith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: The only problem with this method is that it kicks you to and from the Shortcuts app whenever you open an app with a custom icon, which isn&rsquo;t a great way to optimize usage and can be annoying. However, thanks to the latest update to Launch Center Pro, there&rsquo;s now a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-11-27T19:43:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"a6529d14-4813-4c2c-96d3-4f85b51a005e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-11-27T19:43:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AplKdFEgTTCyW00-FtRoAXg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[545,31,1837,26,1986,874,1686],"class_list":["post-30857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icons","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-ios-widgets","tag-launch-center-pro","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}