My icons are turning into blank white squares?!

[Baggy Spandex]

So, all of a sudden at some point yesterday, 3 or 4 of my App store icons just turned white. The apps worked perfectly still, but the icon art was gone!

Has this happened to anyone else? I had to reinstall the apps from the App store, and while inconvienient because I lost data, it fixed the issue.

 

[FamiliaPhoto]

So, all of a sudden at some point yesterday, 3 or 4 of my App store icons just turned white. The apps worked perfectly still, but the icon art was gone!

Has this happened to anyone else? I had to reinstall the apps from the App store, and while inconvienient because I lost data, it fixed the issue.

Are you using a theme with WinterBoard? If so I have seen this happen when an app updates and the old bundle or icon name are no longer correct in the theme.

 

[Bandolier]

Was it something like this?

 

[murdercitydevil]

The last time this happened to me, it turned out it was a problem with the png file's permissions. This was with themed icons, btw. The correct permissions should be 644 IIRC.

 

[ajnicho]

Yep that happened to me a couple of times and I am not even jailbroken. A quick reboot fixed it

 

[fsck-y dingo]

Baggy,

Do you happen to have biteSMS installed on your phone. A few people have had something similar happen and one common app is biteSMS. They say after sending or receiving a text the app store application icons turned white.

I have biteSMS but nothing like that has happened to me so far. I recently switched from the current release version 4.99 to their 5.0 beta. Those having trouble were running 4.99 so I figured I'd give the new one a try.

Here's the thread about what I mentioned above. I hope this helps.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/998157/

 

[Barneygumble47]

I had this problem and I used iwipe to solve it.

 

[Baggy Spandex]

Sorry for the late return to my own thread!

Problem has not happened again...yet. I do not have Winterboard or BiteSMS installed on my phone, so no issues there. I rebooted at first, but it didn't fix my issue. Weird.

And Bandolier, it was similar, only instead of a blank app, there was a white icon. Just solid white.

 

[Omn12]

Help

The exact same thing happened to me
I still can't get it to work
A lot of the icons are blank white boxes on my iPad
Please someone help
I tried ot redraft and sync but the same thing happened

 

[Xhita]

The exact same thing happened to me
I still can't get it to work
A lot of the icons are blank white boxes on my iPad
Please someone help
I tried ot redraft and sync but the same thing happened

I suggest you try the iPad Hack forum. This one is only for the iPhone...

 

[tiggafputuhs]

Fixed

This is not a tested solution, but I had the issue on my iPad. What I did to resolve the issue is put the affected apps into a folder and the icons come back. Not sure why, I guess it refreshes them or something.
Hope it helps!

5.0.1OS

 

[brittlewis12]

That happens pretty frequently for me when installing new Cydia apps/tweaks. A simple respring should do the trick!

 

[HickDead]

That happens pretty frequently for me when installing new Cydia apps/tweaks. A simple respring should do the trick!

+1. This is the correct and most simple way to fix it. Very common issue.

 

[JT17]

Or even if you have Springtomize, you can just hit the Reload Settings so that you don't have to respring.

 

[dhlizard]

Get iWipeCache from Cydia

 

[nwmtnbiker]

I always used sbsettings Fix User Dir Permissions. Sbsettings/More/System Options.