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tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.

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[–] Fartdepartment@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can technically change icons with the shortcuts app.

[–] blake@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keeping in mind that you will only have the shortcut on the Home Screen, while the App Library still has whatever garbage Reddit decided.

[–] Fartdepartment@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thats good to know. I've never actually set up shortcuts icons. This would be an even stupider use case considering you need a weird work around just to use an apps "default" icon.