# App Icon Refresh

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840 "2020-01-21T18:47:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![gannonatwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gannonatwork/32/91717_2.png) [@gannonatwork](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gannonatwork)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/1 "2020-01-21T18:47:04Z")

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Hello. If the app icon is updated after a user adds the icon to their home screen, will the app icon eventually refresh on the user’s phone to show the new version? If so, what’s the typical timeframe? Thx

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**Author:** ![Rosewebstudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rosewebstudio/32/12261_2.png) [@Rosewebstudio](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rosewebstudio)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/2 "2020-01-21T18:59:53Z")

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Hi, no the icon won’t refresh. It will need to be deleted from the home screen and re add. The new icon will then be displayed

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**Author:** ![david](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/david/32/62831_2.png) [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/3 "2020-01-22T02:03:47Z")

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Android is making a change so that the icon will actually update, but on iOS it gets set when you add the app to your home screen and it never changes.

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**Author:** ![gannonatwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gannonatwork/32/91717_2.png) [@gannonatwork](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gannonatwork)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/4 "2020-01-22T16:43:13Z")

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I appreciate you letting me know. Thx

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**Author:** ![gannonatwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gannonatwork/32/91717_2.png) [@gannonatwork](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gannonatwork)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/5 "2020-01-22T16:46:41Z")

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Great news to hear Android will be pushing an update that refreshes the icon. Odd that iOS wouldn’t do the same. Unless I’m missing something, if they were to treat the home screen icon similar to a website’s favicon then it would refresh as these normally do. 🤞 Here’s hoping Apple joins the party, otherwise anyone using Glide who wants to rebrand will have a constant pain point. 🙂 Thx

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**Author:** ![david](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/david/32/62831_2.png) [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/6 "2020-01-23T02:31:55Z")

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For reasons we can’t explain, Apple is improving their support of PWAs at a steady pace. Fingers crossed indeed!

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Clementine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/daniel_clementine/32/6705_2.png) [@Daniel\_Clementine](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Daniel_Clementine)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/app-icon-refresh/3840/7 "2020-05-17T13:09:10Z")

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Hi David. Hope you are fine ? Do you know if Android has made the change so that the icon change is update on the user mobile ? I have just changed my icon and the app icon didn’t refresh on my android mobile ! 😥…Thanks a lot. Daniel