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Which AI should you use for an app icon, and how do you get it App Store-ready?

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An image generator can produce fifty icon concepts in an evening, but it almost never produces a file that's ready for the App Store. Since iOS 26, an app icon isn't a flat picture but a set of layers that the system turns into Liquid Glass: it adds highlights, refraction, and translucency and builds the dark, clear, and tinted variants itself. So the workflow is: AI to find the idea, a vector editor for the final shapes, Icon Composer to assemble it.

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