The beauty of Android's operating system is its ability to customize and make it yours. You can switch your default launcher and change how the icon appears on your Android device.

Google may significantly change Android’s status bar icons for the first time in years with Android 15. As spotted by Android Authority, the upcoming Android 15 update may bring new status bar icons, ...

Since then, developers have slowly added support for themed icons, with WhatsApp being the latest (and biggest, aside from Google’s own apps) to do so. It’s worth noting that WhatsApp only has the ...

The first Android 15 QPR2 beta hints that Google will bring back icon shape customization. Google used to let Pixel users customize the icon shape in Android 11, but this feature was removed in ...

With the latest update, v8.9.44.368 (as first noted by Will Sattelberg at Android Police), Spotify has started rolling out an updated Android icon that ditches that black border.

If your phone runs Android 13, you can activate themed icons by heading to the Wallpaper and style menu and toggling on the feature. Once you've done that, all your compatible apps will turn to ...

In the Android 14 system, long-pressing an icon will only display app shortcuts, as well as app information, paused apps, and widgets. In fact, this change came during the Android 14 beta.