diff --git a/desktop/scripts/build-icons.tsx b/desktop/scripts/build-icons.tsx
index d6675cd5c..da92074a3 100644
--- a/desktop/scripts/build-icons.tsx
+++ b/desktop/scripts/build-icons.tsx
@@ -48,45 +48,32 @@ export async function downloadIcons(buildFolder: string) {
     [],
   );
 
-  return Promise.all(
-    iconURLs.map((icon) => {
+  await Promise.all(
+    iconURLs.map(async (icon) => {
       const url = getPublicIconUrl(icon);
-      return fetch(url, {
-        retryOptions: {
-          retryMaxDuration: 120 * 1000,
-          // Be default, only 5xx are retried but we're getting the odd 404
-          // which goes away on a retry for some reason.
-          retryOnHttpResponse: (res) => res.status >= 400,
-          retryOnHttpError: () => true,
-        },
-      })
-        .then((res) => {
-          if (res.status !== 200) {
-            throw new Error(
-              // eslint-disable-next-line prettier/prettier
-              `Could not download the icon ${icon} from ${url}: got status ${res.status}`,
-            );
-          }
-          return res;
-        })
-        .then(
-          (res) =>
-            new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-              const fileStream = fs.createWriteStream(
-                path.join(buildFolder, buildLocalIconPath(icon)),
-              );
-              res.body.pipe(fileStream);
-              res.body.on('error', reject);
-              fileStream.on('finish', resolve);
-            }),
+      const res = await fetch(url);
+      if (res.status !== 200) {
+        console.warn(
+          // eslint-disable-next-line prettier/prettier
+          `Could not download the icon ${icon} from ${url}: got status ${res.status}`,
         );
+        return;
+      }
+      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        const fileStream = fs.createWriteStream(
+          path.join(buildFolder, buildLocalIconPath(icon)),
+        );
+        res.body.pipe(fileStream);
+        res.body.on('error', reject);
+        fileStream.on('finish', resolve);
+      });
     }),
   );
 }
 
 // should match flipper-ui-core/src/utils/icons.tsx
 export function getPublicIconUrl({name, variant, size, density}: Icon) {
-  return `https://facebook.com/assets/?name=${name}&variant=${variant}&size=${size}&set=facebook_icons&density=${density}x`;
+  return `https://facebook.com/images/assets_DO_NOT_HARDCODE/facebook_icons/${name}_${variant}_${size}_primary-icon.png`;
 }
 
 // should match app/src/utils/icons.tsx