How to preview app icons on AppleTV

Shreyas Gupta
2 min readFeb 21, 2021

One of the most important parts of an app is its icon. It’s the first thing that your user will see when they look at your app. Which is why it is important to test your app icon. This tutorial will teach you how to preview your own app icons on an Apple TV.

The first step is to go to Assets>App Icon & Top Shelf Image>App Icon

Then you will see a three different layers of your app icons, labeled “front”, “middle”, and “back”

You will have to scroll down a little to get to the App Icon screen

You can drag and drop image files for these three layers into their respective spots

Make sure that the image in the “back” slot is 400x240 pixels

Then you can hover your mouse over the icon to see how you icon will look on an Apple TV

Then when you run your app, you should see your icon on the Apple TV

This is a great way to preview how your app icon will look and is an essential part of the app making process.

I hope that this article helped you start making apps for the Apple TV.

Have fun creating!

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