Right-click on the icon file and select “Open With” followed by “Preview” to open the icon in the Preview app on your Mac.ģ. You can search the Internet to find icon packs and can then apply them on your machine. Make sure an icon is available on your Mac that you want the default icon to be replaced with. Right-click on your chosen app and select “Get Info.”Ģ. Most of your apps should be available in the Applications folder. First, you need to select an app whose icon you want to change. Customizing the OS X El Capitan App Iconsġ. Note: we also have a guide on how you can extract the icon of an app on your Mac. By tinkering around with these icons and changing them to something of your liking, you can make your Mac truly yours. You can then just turn the preview back on only for those folders that contain pictures.There are many apps with various icons, and you can bore easily of them after seeing them every day. You can click the Use as Default button if you want and it will apply to all folders. You can't have it on for pictures but off for everything else.Īlso note, this is a per-folder setting, so changing it will only affect the desktop.
Unfortunately, this applies to your pictures too. You may have to log off/back on but the icons will revert to their generic type icons. Pretty stupid for an icon.įrom the menu bar at the top of the screen, click on View -> Show View Options. You'll notice too that when you hover over the icon you have left and right page navigation options as well (assuming there's more than one page). It's a little ridiculous in my opinion, because that's only useful for pictures. It's trying to show you a thumbnail view of the contents of those files (because it understands PDF, DOCX, and HTML file types).
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