That left my Facebook icon with the dark background after the app update. My phone was not in dark mode. The iOS update to 17.6.1 also was available for my phone, which I also installed.

You already know where this is going: X Corp., which has succeeded Twitter Inc., has dug into mobile app icons and the classic Twitter 'blue bird' has been replaced with a black-and-white 'X'.

As an example of app icon customization, users might wish to change the new black icon for social service X back to the sky blue color it was when called Twitter.

Users of Facebook's Messenger app have noticed that the icon on the app ... "Meta goes on a mission to become a 'more masculine space' and suddenly the Messenger app is blue," one person wrote on X.

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X is complete. The app’s icon now sports a dark and foreboding X instead of the familiar and friendly blue and white bird logo. This means X now marks the ...

Twitter rebrands as X 00:28. SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white "X" logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the ...

As our Twitter apps are updating to now be called “X,” you might long for the old blue bird logo.It harkens back to a similar time, when Twitter certainly had its issues, but at least it was ...

I ask because the number of blue icons on my phone has reached a kind of tipping point where I'm often firing up the wrong (blue) app. Apple's iOS 7 redesign is also pushing away from using lots ...

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X is complete. The app’s icon now sports a dark and foreboding X instead of the familiar and friendly blue and white bird logo. This means X now marks the ...