The beauty of Android's operating system lies in its ability to be customized and tailored to your preferences. You can switch your default launcher and change how the icon appears on your Android ...

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 offers improved support for themed app icons. For apps that don’t natively offer a monochrome icon, QPR2 lets the system automatically generate one for theming purposes. A new ...

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Google has tweaked icons for Android 15, including the ones for the Android smartphone’s status bar. They are visible in the second “Developer Preview” version of Android 15. Google is making multiple ...

Google is testing new icons for various status bar elements like WiFi, mobile data, airplane mode, and battery level. We previously spotted the new designs for the WiFi, mobile data, and airplane mode ...

Google is tightening up Android’s visual consistency by making themed app icons mandatory. Themed icons first appeared in Android 13, but adoption has been spotty, with major apps like TikTok still ...

Google rarely talks about the changes it releases for Android Auto users unless it's something truly big, but a mysterious tweak that has surfaced lately could be either a highly anticipated update or ...

Customization was a big focus of Apple’s reveal of iOS 18 this week, and that includes updating the homescreen to be truly customizable. That includes Apple bringing a version of Android’s themed ...

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