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[Feature] Apple Liquid Glass macOS 26/iOS 26 Icon #2203
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Originally created by @LeSpaceCowboy on GitHub (Jun 14, 2025).
Originally assigned to: @MikesGlitch on GitHub.
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
macOS 26 beta changes the icon of the actual app to a gray box with the actual icon in a circle inside. Creating an icon for macOS 26 is a good solution.
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Using Icon Composer to create a new icon for macOS26. Attached is a preliminary one. The background was color sampled from the discord icon, and the stylized "A" was pulled from the same discord logo with the background removed and layered on top at a 1:1 scale.
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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2025):
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@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Jun 18, 2025):
Hey, can I get you to try out this build and let me know how it looks next to your other icons?
https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/actions/runs/15743048891/artifacts/3358158296
Our bundler only supports one format for icons, so I'm not 100% certain what I've got here will work properly across all MacOS versions. Any feedback is appreciated.
@LeSpaceCowboy commented on GitHub (Jun 19, 2025):
The arm64 image gives an error of "this item is damaged and could not be opened" The x64 image took quite a bit of time to load but does work and the icon works.
@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Jun 19, 2025):
That'll be gatekeeper telling you it's damaged because it isn't signed. If you right click the app and click open it should bypass gatekeeper and open properly.
I'm not really sure if we should push this fix. My concern is the icon looks really big on the current mac version and we're not really doing it properly here due to the way we bundle using Electron.
I might park it for a bit, and see if the electron builder/forge adds support for the new icons
@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Jul 16, 2025):
For future me/some other masochist: https://jimeh.io/how-to-add-apples-new-liquid-glass-icons-to-applications-67e0ff054de9
That doc might be helpful in building a icns file with liquid glass icons in it as well as the normal ones. It appears like you can have both in the icns file but it requires xcode.
@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2025):
Progress on this: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/9254
@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Sep 26, 2025):
icon file (if electron builder PR gets approved we can use this): icon.icon.zip
icns file: icons-mac.zip
Managed to put together these icons via iconcomposer by importing into a dummy project in xcode then building the project. The icons were taken from the build folder.
@karanj commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2025):
Suggest move this to Closed column/status
@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2025):
I updated the icon but we're still not technically on liquid glass, so this isn't really closed.
Would be interested to know if the people using the app genuinely want the liquid glass icon or if what's there now is preferable.
@karanj commented on GitHub (Nov 17, 2025):
Oh, I saw the new icon in the November release and assumed it was the updated one.
I think definitely should keep up with the platform where you can. Tahoe has some pretty ugly icons but things aren't going backwards across the industry, everything's going in the squircle. Own it and get ahead of it.
@Ctrl-Alb commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2025):
Thank you for the work you're doing with the Liquid Glass icon!
In my opinion, it would be great to have full support for Liquid Glass because, as far as I understand, it would also mean support for the different icon styles (default, clear, dark and tinted).
Also, would Liquid Glass support come to the iOS and macOS web-app icons, too?
@LeSpaceCowboy commented on GitHub (Dec 28, 2025):
Coming back to this, here's the legacy (pre-tahoe) version of the icon to allow for a simple replacement. I think proper Liquid Glass implementation would be ideal, but until then I think this is a good option: