This is referred to as “standalone” mode, and it explains why, every time you tap on a shortcut icon from the home screen, you see a splash screen for a second before the associated action is launched ...

The Finder trick and Replacicon have been around for a while, but in macOS Sonoma, similarly to what was already possible with Shortcuts, we now have the option to pick any image file as a custom icon ...

To that end, we have a knockout tournament to find out what you think is Google’s best four-color app icon. The big critique of these icons is that that shared color palette makes all the icons ...