Smartphones have become increasingly more capable of handling a variety of tasks over the years. Be it streaming your favorite movies in HDR, or capturing stunning-looking photos — advancements in ...

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

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 making support for its Themed Icons feature mandatory by automatically generating themed icons for apps that don’t already provide one. This change addresses inconsistent home screens, as ...

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The latest Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 for Pixel devices introduces a long-awaited custom icon shapes feature, allowing users to personalize their home screen. The update also includes significant ...

One of the biggest evolutions to Material You in Android 13 is support for themed icons in third-party apps, a function that’s quickly expanding to more and more apps as of late. Now, Android 13 on ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Updates this week to the Gemini app on Android and iPhone introduce a new app icon that adopts the four Google colors. The new four-color logo takes after every other Google icon. It’s still ...