{"id":1588,"date":"2025-08-08T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:16:43","slug":"macos-tahoe-put-your-apps-in-icon-jail-heres-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/macos-tahoe-put-your-apps-in-icon-jail-heres-the-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS Tahoe put your apps in icon jail? Here\u2019s the fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/macOS-Tahoe.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/07\/macos-26-icon-changes\/?extended-comments=1\">highlighted<\/a> macOS Tahoe\u2019s aggressive behavior of putting nonconforming app icons inside an ugly gray box of shame. The change seems to affect the Mac user experience more than it impacts the app developer. It makes the actual icon 20% smaller and 80% harder to recognize.<\/p>\n<p>A great thing about the Mac, though, is the ability to customize app icons. This can be a temporary solution. You just need to track down an app icon that works. Here\u2019s how to swap out app icons on macOS Tahoe and avoid the gray box effect.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macos-tahoe\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1013383\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/08\/macos-tahoe-fix-gray-box-icons\/#more-1013383\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I highlighted macOS Tahoe\u2019s aggressive behavior of putting nonconforming app icons inside an ugly gray box of ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}