Bundle display name missing space characters

Question

When I give Bundle display name with space as "A B C D", I get the app name as "ABCD". This happens only on the iOS 11.I tried override name"CFBundleDisplayName" in my InfoPlist.string and use special unicode character \U00A0 (No-break space) and it doesn't help me.

score 80 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '18 at 19:09

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This is because of a change Apple made in iOS 11 for truncating for longer app names. If the name is longer than 12 characters, the spaces will be removed. Otherwise, they'll still exist.

For example, Guide book app will become Guidebookapp, but Gui boo app will stay as Gui boo app.

Using unicode   (FIGURE SPACE) works because it isn't an ascii space. I would be hesitant to use this as a solution because it seems reasonable that Apple would "fix" this bug and remove   for apps with names longer than 12 characters.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/77832

answered Jan 08 '18 at 19:09

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Finally an actual explanation of what is happening! Thanks! However strange that there is still no official documentation from Apple about this. – Dominic Jan 10 '18 at 16:42
Thanks. It kept the spaces for 14 characters for me too on iPhone 11 Pro. – Guy Lowe Dec 19 '19 at 00:33
This could be an attempt by Apple to sanitize homoglyph abuse. I use an ASCII7 conversion function in my web applications to strip UTF8 from values that are used as keys. – James Moberg Dec 27 '19 at 19:25

score 57 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I have the same issue. Only on iOS 11. On lower iOS version this issue isn't appeared.

I resolved this with:

Open info.plist as Source code(right click, open as...)
Find CFBundleDisplayName
Replace normal space with unicode

That's all. After that display name shows with space.

UPDATED:

  works only when typed in *.plist. Can't be inserted in Display name in Xcode project settings;

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Sep 25 '17 at 07:36

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Hi, did you opened a ticket into http://bugreport.apple.com regarding this? – Andrea Leganza Oct 02 '17 at 12:54
@AndreaLeganza, no. – Alex Motor Oct 03 '17 at 09:08
So is this a feature or a bug? In the apple developer forums I could only find threads describing the issue and this workaround, however no official explanation. – Dominic Nov 16 '17 at 08:22
@Dominic, why can it be feature? There is no official information about it. Therefore, it's a bug. – Alex Motor Nov 16 '17 at 09:15
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Note that ` ` is displayed as a double space in the Settings app on iOS 11 and the Home screen on iOS 9 & 10. – DaveAlden Dec 05 '17 at 13:13
@DaveAlden, Yes, it is. – Alex Motor Dec 07 '17 at 13:52
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Found thread on Apple Forum reason: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/77832. – Alex Motor Dec 07 '17 at 13:53
simply putting two spaces in the Bundle display name achieves the same effect. – enigma Dec 21 '17 at 13:21
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What about in multiple target context using "InfoPlist.strings" to translate app names ? – Florian Mac Langlade Sep 12 '18 at 11:57
It's make app displayed as a double space on name app title of notification – bkit4u Oct 26 '18 at 09:58
@bkit4u, ofc. Like the app name, too. It was notified above. – Alex Motor Oct 29 '18 at 14:26

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 06 '19 at 13:43

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It works for me when I replace space with FIGURE SPACE in InfoPlist.strings manually or with a script.

answered Feb 06 '19 at 13:43

ChikabuZ

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just copy-paste space from your message and finally got space – nastassia Nov 23 '20 at 12:57
Very odd. It works at my end by copy/pasting "your" space... – Żabojad Jan 04 '21 at 13:45

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 11 '17 at 14:55

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Edit info.plist as source code but use   instead of  .   looks like 2 spaces.

answered Oct 11 '17 at 14:55

MateusK

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` ` works great on iOS 9.0 but doesn't work in present versions of iOS (11+). – jorisw Jul 04 '19 at 08:34

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 27 '19 at 23:45

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In my case this value was missing from info.plist file so I just add the following to it:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME)</string>

answered Jun 27 '19 at 23:45

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score -4 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 16 '19 at 07:02

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Give More Space in Bundle Display Name like abc def abcdef

answered Apr 16 '19 at 07:02

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Bundle display name missing space characters

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