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Bakery

Bakery is an advanced power-user feature for icon themes where the background is baked into the wallpaper instead of into each icon. The result: icons that look like part of the wallpaper, with absolutely no seams.

Most users won't need this. Stick with the regular Background controls in Editing Icons unless you specifically want the "icons baked into wallpaper" look.

When to use Bakery

• Your icon background is a single complex image (a photo, an illustration, etc.) and you want each icon to show the part of that image directly behind it on the Home Screen.
• You're building a theme where the icons should feel painted onto the wallpaper.

How it works

1. Open Studio, scroll to Open Bakery (bottom).
2. The Bakery shows a phone-shaped grid of icon slots aligned to your device's actual Home Screen layout.
3. Tap a slot to choose what icon goes there. The icon picker has two tabs:
   • Browse, search the full icon library.
   • Export List, pick from icons already in your Export List.
4. Each slot also has an icon-import + tile for Custom Icons.
5. When you're done, tap Bake & Export. The Bakery saves:
   • The full-resolution wallpaper.
   • One PNG per icon slot. Each one is the icon glyph composited onto the wallpaper region behind it.

After baking

Save the wallpaper from Photos as your iOS Home Screen wallpaper. See Applying a Wallpaper.

Then apply each baked icon via Shortcuts as normal. See Applying Icons. The icons will line up perfectly with the wallpaper, so they look like solid cutouts of the image.

Export count

Each baked icon counts toward your free-tier export limit. A typical 24-icon Home Screen layout consumes 24 exports.

Calibration

If the baked icons don't line up perfectly with your iOS Home Screen grid, calibrate the layout in Settings → Bakery → Calibrate Baked-In Backgrounds.