Making App Icons for tvOS

According to Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, every app must provide an icon to be displayed on the Apple TV Home screen and in the App Store. An app should specify several different icons of different dimensions to suit different screen sizes and different situations.

Here is the dimensions for tvOS apps:

All images on Apple TV are @1x resolution.
Layered images are required for app icons

Name

Actual size (px)

Focused / Safe zone size (px)

Unfocused Size

Usage

Remarks

AppleTV-Icon-App-Small-400x240.png

400x240

370x222

300x180

Apple TV Home screen

You have to submit tvOS app icons in two sizes, both with the same aspect ratio.

AppleTV-TopShelf-Poster-404x608.png

404x608

380x570

333x570

Top Shelf for Poster (2:3)

AppleTV-TopShelf-Square-608x608.png

608x608

570x570

500x500

Top Shelf for Square (1:1)

AppleTV-GameCenter-Leaderboard-659x371.png

659x371

618x348

548x309

Leaderboard Artwork

The back layer of the art must be opaque.

AppleTV-TopShelf-HDTV-908x512.png

908x512

852x479

782x440

Top Shelf for HDTV (16:9)

AppleTV-Icon-App-Large-1280x768.png

1280x768

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App Store Icon

You have to submit tvOS app icons in two sizes, both with the same aspect ratio.

AppleTV-TopShelf-1920x1080.png

1920x1080

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Launch image size

Launch images are static, and don’t include layers.

AppleTV-TopShelf-1920x1080@2x.png

3840x2160

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Launch image size for 4K apps

Launch images are static, and don’t include layers.

AppleTV-TopShelf-ScrollingInsetBanner-1940x692.png

1940x692

1740x620

1740x560

Top Shelf for Scrolling Inset Banner

Provide three to eight images

*There is no longer a 1024x1024 size. That’s replaced by 512x512@2x.

After creating all the icons, you should put it into a folder whose name is icon.iconset. The folder must have the .iconset extension. It might look a bit unusual for a folder to have an extension, but this extension is a signal to the system that the folder contains a set of icons.