Last year, Twitter launched Twitter Blue, the paid Twitter which came with additional benefits such as app theme change, icon customization, NFT profile pictures, etc., although many benefits are not available. were not yet available for Android. One of them just landed now, custom icons.
Twitter Blue subscription is available in a handful of countries (United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), but if all you want is to change the Twitter icon, you don’t need to pay. Changing app icons is very easy on Androidwithout having to pay a monthly subscription and being able to choose the design as desired.
Look mom, no Twitter Blue
Twitter Blue is the name of the paid Twitter subscription which gives you several benefits. Twitter is always adjusting its membership, with perks coming and going or going straight were not available if you were using Twitter on an Android mobilelike changing icons, ad-free articles, themes, NFT profile pictures or personalized navigation.
Taking into account that the subscription costs the same – around 2.99 Canadian dollars – whether you use Twitter on an iPhone or an Android mobile, it doesn’t seem too fair to get half the benefits, but those are coming. gradually. Now Twitter has announced that subscribers with an Android mobile they can finally change the iconsas is possible on an iPhone.
if you’re on Android, the wait is over – you can now select from our custom app icons
change it daily, weekly, monthly or never! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/Pk3I2mpyks
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) February 23, 2022
The operation is simple, as we have seen in the iOS version: from the Twitter settings, you can choose from a handful of icons for the app, which will become the official Twitter icon. Besides having some fixed icons (most of them the Twitter logo with different colors), there are “seasonal icons”, which change and are available for a limited time.
Perhaps the most ironic thing about this is that changing icons is quite common in Androidand you don’t have to wait for an app to give you the option let alone charge you for it.
If you want to change the Twitter icon but don’t want to pay for it – or Twitter Blue just isn’t available in your country – you can accomplish something similar in many ways. For example, launchers like Nova Launcher let you customize any icon with the image you wantby modifying its shortcut on the home screen.
Change icon in Nova Launcher
This is not the only option available to you. In many Android mobiles it is also possible install icon packs, which can affect the whole mobile or only the launcher, and in which it will not be difficult for you to find different versions for the icon of such popular applications as Twitter. Additionally, you can use apps like X Icon Changer to create custom icons in your launcher, in case the one you’re using doesn’t allow you to configure it.
Custom Twitter Icons are a nice addition if you had already planned to sign up for Twitter Blue for its other benefits, but if you’re going to sign up for Twitter’s subscription, this is not for changing icons.
