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In the new Instagram, you can change the application icon – here’s how to do it

After the release of iOS 14, many users began to change the app icons on their iPhones, as the corresponding function appeared right in the Teams app. And although it allows you to make a unique desktop (if you also use widgets like Widgetsmith – generally a gun), changing icons in this way does not work very conveniently. When you start an application with a different icon, the “Commands” utility opens first, albeit for a couple of seconds, and only then the application itself. However, some developers have provided for the possibility change application icon right in its settings – for example, as they did on Instagram for the birthday of the service.

Did you miss this icon? Now you can bring her back

For all of its users, Instagram hid a little Easter egg in a fresh update to its app. Now you can change the icon in the program settings! It can be a classic Instagram icon from 2010 or a slightly updated version of it from 2011 (which few remember this app). In addition, Instagram has opened access to several custom icons, including the one that was on the preliminary launch of the application. Then, by the way, he was not even in App Store.

How to change Instagram icon

  1. Update Instagram app to the latest version.
  2. Subscribe on our Instagram (this is not necessary, but we will be pleased).
  3. Open your profile – go to Settings.
  4. Pull the Settings menu down as far as possible, following the emoji indications.
  5. Pull down firmly to reveal a hidden menu

  6. You will have access to a secret menu where you can choose a different icon for the Instagram application.

The icon changes in a second and without the “Commands” application

Unfortunately, you can change the icon only for a month – then it will automatically change to the actual one, which first appeared on May 11, 2016. However, since Apple missed this Instagram App Store update, this functionality may remain for a while. At the same time, according to the rules of the application store, the program should not have hidden menus.

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It is worth noting that Instagram is far from the first application where you can change the icon using the settings. Possibility change icon in Telegram appeared back in 2019. At first, it was not among the official functions of the messenger. Moreover, the developers deliberately hid it from ordinary users, turning it into a kind of Easter egg, which was quickly revealed in our chat on Telegram, for the most active and interested (just like Instagram now). But with the release of Telegram version 5.8 for iOS, the ability to change icons appeared officially.

How to change the Telegram icon

  1. To change the Telegram icon on iOS, open the application of the same name;
  2. Go to “Settings” – “Design” – “Application Icon”;
  3. Select one of the icons in Settings

  4. On the page that opens, select one of the six icons that you like best;
  5. You can choose one of 6 icons

  6. Confirm the icon change by pressing the OK button that appears in the dialog box.

А для приложений, которые не позволяют сами менять иконку в iOS 14, можете воспользоваться этим способом.

So what is your favorite Instagram icon? Set yourself? Let us know in the comments.

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