---
title: UIApplicationShortcutIcon
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon
---

# UIApplicationShortcutIcon

An image you can optionally associate with a Home Screen quick action to improve its appearance and usability.

## Declaration

```swift
class UIApplicationShortcutIcon
```

## Overview

Overview To associate an icon with a quick action, pass it to the quick action item’s initialization method, as described in UIApplicationShortcutItem. There are three types of quick action icon: An icon from a system-provided library of common types, as described in the UIApplicationShortcutIcon.IconType enumeration An icon derived from a custom template image in your app’s bundle and preferably in an asset catalog (see Managing assets with asset catalogs) An icon representing a contact in the user’s address book, which you access through the Contacts UI framework

## Topics

### Creating a quick action icon

- [init(type:)](uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon/init(type:).md)
- [init(templateImageName:)](uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon/init(templateimagename:).md)
- [init(systemImageName:)](uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon/init(systemimagename:).md)
- [init(contact:)](uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon/init(contact:).md)

### Constants

- [UIApplicationShortcutIcon.IconType](uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticon/icontype.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Home Screen quick actions

- [Add Home Screen quick actions](uikit/add-home-screen-quick-actions.md)
- [UIApplicationShortcutItem](uikit/uiapplicationshortcutitem.md)
- [UIMutableApplicationShortcutItem](uikit/uimutableapplicationshortcutitem.md)