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Customize your Mac's icons
Everything you need to know about custom icons.
When Apple pulls back the curtains to reveal iOS 18 in a couple of weeks, one of the marquee features reportedly will be more flexible app icon management.
Not only will you be able to put app icons wherever you like on the Home Screen — instead of being tied to the traditional, rigid grid — you’ll be able to change their colors.
You might, for example, make all your social media apps blue, or all your banking apps red.
You’ve been able to do this on the Mac forever, but not many people take advantage of the capability. You can easily change the icon for any folder, file, app or hard drive — and some people really go to town with it.
Check out today’s top post for everything you need to know about customizing your Mac’s icons, including how to change the icons Apple doesn’t want you to change, and how to make your custom icons bigger and bolder.
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Tweetz o’ the day
Crazy — my son was looking for a book on our bookshelves, so he took an iPhone picture of the whole shelves (hundreds of books) and then searched for the book’s title in his photos.
— Bill Wasik (@billwasik)
2:47 AM • May 29, 2024
I'm lost in the MacPaint manual again 🧑🚀
— Paul Rony (@Paul_Rony)
1:07 PM • May 30, 2024
Dumbified my iPhone and this is how my homescreen looks now.
Notifications all scheduled to deliver together once per day, so only use my phone when I actively choose to💆♂️— Christopher Dengsø (@chrisdengso)
2:11 AM • May 30, 2024
Scenery wallpapers you're going to love! 🌄
— Vuk Andric (@vukandric)
3:06 PM • May 29, 2024
One more thing ...
It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
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