It’s been a while since my last visit but I thought I’d come back to help give a little bit of context to our new custom app icons
As you might’ve seen, the latest app release (5.23.0) includes a range of new custom app icons. For all users, there will be updates to the Pride and Black Culture icons and there will additionally be a new Stand with Ukraine icon.
Other new icons include Business Lite and Business Pro for Lite/Pro Business accounts. If you have Plus, Premium, or are an Alpha, Beta, or Investor user – you will see refreshed versions of the old icons. It’s worth noting that all older icons will no longer be available (apologies if you were in love with something from the old set!). As for getting a new icon, simply head to ‘settings’ within the app to check out the selection.
Shout out to our engineers @allanspreys and @DanielCoutts for all your hard work behind the scenes getting these icons into the app!
And finally, I’d love to hear any ideas you might have for future custom app icons. If there’s something you feel strongly about and there’s a good case for it, we’d love to make it happen.
Just to be clear, the bug* itself still exists in 16.5
But by way of updating, it has the side effect of deploying the workaround to fix it.
Equally, you can just wait and the system will catch up at some point. But restarting your phone forces it (and updating involves restarting your phone).
*im not sure it’s even a bug. It’s just the way iOS indexes and caches stuff. The regular app icon will change right away, but any interface element tied to the proactive siri update from years ago (such as Siri suggestions or the large tiles in App Library) will need to wait for the system to catch up and refresh whenever it next indexes.
iOS also has a separate cache for the teeny tiny icons in app folders on your home screen, as I found out when Wise updated their app with the new branding and it still showed the blue icon in the collapsed folder for ages. So yeah may take a while to fully be reflected across the whole system.
There was also an issue with the business account icons not showing straight away, I enquired on Twitter and apparently there was something wrong on Monzo’s end they had to fix to make them available. I’m now using the white business Lite icon.
That’s not true. And just to be certain, I’ve tested it. Removed and re-added my Monzo card. Bought the melmetal event ticket in Pokémon go using Apple Pay. Still the old logo.
