How to change the name of an iOS app?

1. Go to Targets in Xcode.
2. Build Settings on your project's target (your current development name).
3. Search for Product Name under Packaging. Change its value to what you want your new project name to be.

In new versions of Xcode (Xcode 5 too), to change the name of the project, follow these simple (detailed as possible) steps:

Note: In this example I'll change a hypothetical "Sample" name to a "Test" one.

1. Click twice slowly on the project root in the project navigator and then it becomes editable.

   

2. Rename the project.

   

3. After pressing Enter the assistant will suggest you to automatically change all project-name-related entries and will allow you to de-select some of them, if you want.

   

4. Press 'RENAME' and Xcode will do the rest. In the meanwhile Xcode may ask you about the option of making a snapshot of the project (it is very recommendable to do so).

5. In addition to renaming the project, you may want to rename the scheme so that it matches your new project name.

   

6. Repeat similar steps like 1 and 2, and press OK.

   

   

7. That's it.

Another scenario...

The previous explanation was related to changing the project name, but chances are that you only need to change the display name that appears below the app icon in the home screen. These are the steps:

1. In the "Supporting Files" group locate the info.plist (or related) file

2. Locate the "Bundle display name" key and change the value to the new name.

   

   

3. Delete the "old" app from the simulator or any other testing device.

4. Clean and rebuild your app again.

5. That's it. You will now see the new app name in your home screen.

You change the bundle display name in the info.plist file. It's as simple as that.

Changing the 'bundle display name' (as opposed to 'bundle name') is the only way to include characters like '+' in your applications name. Including special characters in the project name will cause an error when uploading to App Store!

In Xcode 3.2, just select the Project entry in the Groups & Files panel, and select the menu item Project → Rename… It worked for me.

For Xcode 10.2:

Although this question has many answers but I wanted to explain the whole concept in detail so that everyone can apply this knowledge to further or previous versions of Xcode too.

Every Xcode project consists of one or more targets. According to apple, A target specifies a product to build and contains the instructions for building the product from a set of files in a project or workspace. So every target is a product (app) on its own.

Steps to change the name:

Step 1: Go to the Targets and open the Info tab of the target whose name you want to change.

Step 2: View the Bundle name key under the Custom iOS Target Properties that is set to the default property of $(PRODUCT_NAME).

Step 3: You can either change the Bundle name directly (not recommended) or if you open the Build Settings tab then on searching for Product Name under Setting you will see that Product Name is set to $(TARGET_NAME).

Step 3A: You can change the Product Name or you can also change the Target Name by double clicking on the target.

So changing the Product Name (App Name) or Target Name both will result into similar results. But if you only want to change the App Name and want to keep using the same Target Name then only change the Product Name.

For Xcode 11, if you want to change the App Display Name then simply go to plist and simply replace the value of CFBundleDisplayName:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>Your App Name</string>

Also: your target name may be the same as your app name - note that changing the target name does not change the app name - only the change in the target properties described below - will change the app name.

Select project navigator → select Target → Identity → Display Name → Name.

Follow these four steps maintaining serial no. And in step 4 give your desired name..

Use Target → Build Setting → Product name.