{"id":482499,"date":"2026-02-18T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:21:10","slug":"yes-chromes-home-icon-changed-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482499\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Chrome\u2019s Home icon changed on Android\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Google-Chrome-generic-1-2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chrome 145 is widely rolling out on Android today with a new Home icon in the address bar.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing to the left of the Omnibox, the new Home icon is sharper and drops the curved corners, though this is hard to tell without zooming in. The roof is flush with the side of this house, while there\u2019s now a door.<\/p>\n<p>This icon style has been live on desktop Chrome for some time now.\u00a0To my eye, the old version looks a bit more modern and fits better with the other icons flanking the address bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Top: Old | Bottom: New<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"355\" data-id=\"704804\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=704804\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/Chrome-144-Home.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chrome-144-Home.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"355\" data-id=\"704803\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=704803\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/Chrome-145-Home.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chrome-145-Home.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, you can remove the icon if you want a slightly wider address bar, especially when the Toolbar shortcut is set. Go to Settings &gt; Homepage to disable entirely, or switch from the New Tab Page to a custom web address.<\/p>\n<p>(On desktop, tap \u201cCustomize Chrome\u201d in the bottom-right corner of the New Tab Page for \u201cToolbar\u201d to make changes.)<\/p>\n<p>This is the main user-facing change in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.android.chrome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chrome 145<\/a> for Android.<\/p>\n<p>More on Chrome:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_669_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_276_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benqurl.biz\/3WZyqpL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-704145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771399270_572_native-banner_750_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chrome 145 is widely rolling out on Android today with a new Home icon in the address bar.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-482499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}