Man I fucking hate this trend in icon design where they've both become so insanely basic and also tried to be "consistent" with all the icons to the point of being useless. Google started this a while back with their app icons on Android, where they all have some basic shape and the Google colors and it still sucks trying to find the right one. The horrendous icon theming users are able to do only makes it worse, reducing them to two-color versions.

Microsoft did this okay until their recent liquid glass redesign, which just went further into colored blob territory.

The worst are the icons that rely on the user using a previous version of the app to understand the very abstract version of the icon used today. See: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510

▲

Gigachad 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Google was the only one I disliked because literally all of their icons looked the same. The Apple ones are all fairly recognizable just by colour. Settings: grey, App store: blue, etc.

▲

gumby271 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Except now the color can be completely themed right? By default it is, but it's hard to describe any of these icons if color is off the table.

	▲	Gigachad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The colour theming of icons is a bad feature IMO. Driven by the need to show new things in the latest update but makes usability of the phone much worse. At least its something you can just not use and it doesn't cause issues.