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How to find all of Apple’s system icons

You need to look for files named *.icns inside any subdirectory of CoreTypes.bundle.

Apple ships a bunch of high-quality icons of Mac hardware as part of macOS. For a long time you could find all these icons in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

but they gradually seem to have split up in newer versions of macOS. I was looking for an icon for my 2024 Mac mini in macOS Sequoia 15.1, but I could only find older Mac minis in this folder:

A grid of seven Mac mini icons, which is conspicously missing the 2024 Mac mini.

I found a thread on Apple’s discussion forums where somebody was asking for a Mac Studio icon, and somebody suggested looking in a sub-bundle:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library/CoreTypes-0003.bundle/Contents/Resources/

That folder doesn’t exist on my system (I have CoreTypes-0003.bundle, but it doesn’t have a Resources folder). But this was a clue in the right direction!

I used the following shell commands:

mkdir -p icons

find /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle \
  -type f -name "com.apple.*.icns" \
  -exec cp {} icons \;

This finds all ICNS files that are anywhere inside CoreTypes.bundle, and copies them to a new folder. Then I could look for my Mac mini icon in that folder, and I don’t have to worry about exactly where it lives.