diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
index 63e647d0ccf..52808ddc1e0 100644
--- a/examples/.gitignore
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@
 .packages
 .pub/
 build/
-ios/
 packages
 pubspec.lock
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/application_package.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/application_package.dart
index 99940ce7958..b50878c1c60 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/application_package.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/application_package.dart
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class AndroidApk extends ApplicationPackage {
 
 class IOSApp extends ApplicationPackage {
   static const String _defaultId = 'io.flutter.runner.Runner';
-  static const String _defaultPath = 'ios/Generated';
+  static const String _defaultPath = 'ios/.generated';
 
   IOSApp({
     String localPath: _defaultPath,
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/commands/ios.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/commands/ios.dart
index 1075584a0c0..64e64cd654b 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/commands/ios.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/commands/ios.dart
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class IOSCommand extends FlutterCommand {
   Future<int> _runInitCommand() async {
     // Step 1: Fetch the archive from the cloud
     String iosFilesPath = path.join(Directory.current.path, "ios");
-    String xcodeprojPath = path.join(iosFilesPath, "Generated");
+    String xcodeprojPath = path.join(iosFilesPath, ".generated");
     List<int> archiveBytes = await _fetchXcodeArchive();
 
     if (archiveBytes.isEmpty) {
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class IOSCommand extends FlutterCommand {
     //         one does not exist.
     File generatedGitignore = new File(path.join(iosFilesPath, ".gitignore"));
     if (!generatedGitignore.existsSync()) {
-      generatedGitignore.writeAsStringSync("Generated/\n");
+      generatedGitignore.writeAsStringSync(".generated/\n");
     }
 
     // Step 4: Setup default user editable files if this is the first run of