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This is a little bit weird. Now, I am developing an app that's universal. However, I don't provide images for the iPad retina (iPad 3 and 4), but still retina images available for the iPhone. Now, the app uses the retina images of iPhone on iPad 3 and 4 instead of using the non retina, yet with correct size, iPad images.

To clear this out: - iPad 1 and 2 uses the iPad non retina images (normal). - iPad 3 & 4 uses the iPhone retina images instead of the iPad non retina images!

I tried a solution where I renamed the iPhone retina images so that it will end with ~iphone@2x. This fixes the issue on the iPad 3 and 4 but now the iPhone 4, 4s & 5 uses the non retina images!

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adding ~iphone to your image name will point to normal image.. isn't it ? –  Janak Nirmal Nov 5 '12 at 6:45

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IIRC, you got it the other way around. It should be myimage@2x~iphone.png.

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What does IIRC mean ? –  Janak Nirmal Nov 5 '12 at 6:47
if i recall correctly –  yfrancis Nov 5 '12 at 6:48
(which he does) –  ephemera Nov 5 '12 at 6:51
Thanks, that fixed it! –  Abdalrahman Shatou Nov 5 '12 at 7:43

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