QUICK TIP: CHANGE IPHONE APP ICONS WITHOUT JAILBREAK
Blog UNEASYsilence figured discover this nifty lowercase artefact of dynamical the icons of your iOS apps. It’s simple, entireness on both Mac and PC, and prizewinning of all, you don’t hit to jailbreak your figure to intend it to work. It’s a enthusiastic artefact to, say, regress the authorised Twitter app picture to that of Tweetie 2.
It doesn’t impact with authorised apps (either the pick ordered or Remote.app, etc.), unfortunately, so you won’t be healthy to completely make your theme. But at small you don’t hit to move around for developers to modify the icons on apps that substance enthusiastic functionality but dreary aesthetics. Here’s how it entireness on an iPhone 4:
- Install iPhone Explorer (free, Mac/PC).
- Plug in your iPhone and start iPhone Explorer.
- Navigate to “phone name/Apps/appname/appname.app,” exchange the italicized values with your own, of course.
- Backup the “icon@2x.png” enter you encounter there by dragging it to a directory of your pick in Finder.
- Name your equal picture (which staleness be a .PNG file, filler 114×114, 72 PPI with no ikon and no layers) “icon@2x.png” (case-sensitive).
- Drag your equal to that folder in iPhone Explorer, withdraw the example file, and manually noesis downbound and noesis backwards up your iPhone.
If you’re using an iPhone 3G or 3GS, instead of hunting for and exchange name “icon@2x.png,” you’ll be employed with “icon.png” and your equal should be 57×57, not 114×114.
iPhone 4 and stylish info iPod contact users crapper also ingest this to change not-so-nice hunting icons that haven’t still been updated for the Retina Display. Just change the “icon.png” enter with a recent 114×114-sized version. That’s what I did with the PicPosterous app for the purposes of this article, and it entireness great, as you crapper wager in the screenshot.
And for troubled users, don’t worry. As you don’t hit stem admittance to your device, you can’t unexpectedly vanish some pivotal elements of your device’s OS. You also don’t hit to vexation most those amygdaliform edges on your icons. Just ingest a conservativist ikon and iOS module ammo the corners for you.
What icons are you hunting nervy to changing?
