Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall.
tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.
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Imagine having to pay to edit an icon in your home screen
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These new ideas are exactly why they had to kill 3rd party apps. If they hadn’t, this sort of change would just push more people to adopt them.
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But that’s so much harder to do than simply taking away the options. Surely that’ll make them like Reddit more, right?
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Technically you can use Shortcuts to set whatever icon you want but it takes some effort to set up. And I don’t think it can use transparency so it’d have to take up the whole square (or out more effort into making the background of the icon match your background). And it’ll take a second longer to load the app as it goes through Shortcuts first
Shortcuts do not behave exactly like the default app icon when it comes to animations, notification icons, and so on, and they create a redundant duplicate icon. It's not as big of an issue now that there is an app drawer on iOS, but it's still less than ideal.
There's still no justification as to why an user shouldn't be able to control how things appear on their screen - a developer doesn't get to choose what I see or not see.
Agreed completely, it’s a workaround that requires some sacrifices.
Jailbroken iPhone gang aswell