Have you ever noticed that a lot of applications in the app store have what looks like over-lighting or washout around the top of the icon? Well, it turns out that that is how the iPhone and the App Store render your application's icon by default. However, if you have an artist that has spent a lot of time trying to make a good looking icon, they can be quite frustrated once they give you the icon only to see the top 1/3 of the icon become washed out, and in fact most of the apps from bigger named devs don't have this. If you want to be like the big boys, there is a very simple change you need to make to your app. Just add the following XML snippet to your info.plist file:

<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>

Yep. That's it. Enjoy.