{"id":440599,"date":"2026-05-22T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:17:08","slug":"your-pixel-phone-just-got-a-surprise-set-of-new-icons-to-play-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440599\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Pixel Phone Just Got a Surprise Set of New Icons to Play With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, Google gave us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/03\/04\/first-look-at-the-googles-sweet-new-custom-icons-on-the-pixel-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first set of custom icons<\/a> that could be generated in several styles for all of the apps on your Pixel phone. Rather than just let us load in whatever custom icon pack we want, Google has kept the selection small and only to a handful of styles they\u2019ve approved.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they rolled out the first new style since that initial launch. The newest option is called \u201cDisco,\u201d and yes, it very much turns your icons into little disco ball, sparkly icons. It\u2019s cute.<\/p>\n<p>To get to these, you\u2019ll long-press on your home screen, choose \u201cWallpaper &amp; style,\u201d Icons, and then hit the Create button. Once in the Create menu, you should see the Disco option, as well as the others that were previously released. Tap on Disco, then the \u201cDownload\u201d button the top right corner, and it\u2019ll then download the pack, customize it to your phone, and let you apply it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"708\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Google Pixel Themes - Disco Icons\" class=\"wp-image-321138\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pixel-Themes-Disco-Icons-980x708.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on these? Don\u2019t we all really just want Google to allow us to load in 3rd party icon packs? They probably won\u2019t ever, but that\u2019d be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/03\/03\/new-pixel-theme-spongebob\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spongebob theme from March<\/a> is now gone. Any guesses on what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in March, Google gave us a first set of custom icons that could be generated in several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-440599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}