… the Messages conversation shortcut for my girlfriend has made her into an ugly demon. It’s kinda crazy that Google also applies it to deep-link shortcuts as well. Feels very lazy.
… the Messages conversation shortcut for my girlfriend has made her into an ugly demon. It’s kinda crazy that Google also applies it to deep-link shortcuts as well. Feels very lazy.
Poor wording on my part.
Theres a feature in Android since Android 12 that you can enable which forces app icons to use the greyscale icon (which all developers must provide going forward), and then theming it to your OS colours (Material You).
Until now if an app didn’t have that greyscale bitmap icon it would show the original full-colour icon instead. The latest update means if you enable the feature ALL your apps, including those deep link shortcuts, will be forced to colour-match.
So you don’t see this unless you turn it on, but you can’t get back to the pre-16QPR2 state where most apps follow the scheme and some apps are left as their original icons.