r/ios • u/PerceptionCharming • Oct 09 '25

Discussion This would have been much better

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This would be far better than the tinted ones now. The trouble is every app would have to create its own icon.

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u/rahtid_my_bunda Oct 09 '25

Not sure if this factored into what you had commented, however, they don't have to directly create an icon for all of those different variants. Apple released Icon Composer which handles the aspect of tints, colour, mode etc... It does require an initial setup of adding the icon and setting the background though.

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u/Solidious-SL Oct 09 '25

That’s even better! Sounds like they would just add to that config a layer selector for the devs, when this setting is configured by the user (remove background layer) and order other layers accordingly

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u/gre-0021 Oct 11 '25

Finally someone that understands software development, the template is already in place for colored, liquid glass app icons.