How To Turn Off White Background On Google Apps

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remove the white background on icons

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Can white background for Android icons can anymore be turned off?

Did i miss the new setting location?

White background for android icons seems to be permanent since sometimes...i remember a setting that allowed non-display of that icon background.

That was good .

Some people idendify faster stuff on screen if there is less uniformity.

Now, all Google apps icons are barely the same (white background plus brand standard four color logo...yey).

And apparently the square-rounded shape is normative also.

Less liberty for originals designs that helped visual idendification on screen.

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Hello,

This is highly dependent on the launcher you use. The image looks like the standard google android version 8 and up icon shape. I theory it could be part of the icon you created but since you are asking this I doubt it.

In older versions of android the outer shape of the icons were individual, while rather cool and the outline correctly shown while dragging them etc many complained about the lack of a uniform look of all the icons in the app drawer etc.

It was introduced to make all icons seem more uniform. Long pressing an empty space in the Google Pixel launcher for example shows a choice to go into the settings for the launcher and there you can change the shape all icons should have.

Thanks