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Change Arc Browser Icon

A collection of commands that change the Arc Browser icon on macOS.

Commands

Theme	Command
Candy Arc	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName candy`
Hologram	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName hologram`
Neon	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName neon`
Fluted Glass	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName flutedGlass`
Schoolbook	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName schoolbook`
Colorful	`defaults write company.thebrowser.Browser currentAppIconName colorful`

Steps

Copy one of the above commands
Open Terminal.app
Paste and run the command
Open Settings, then click the Icon tab
Click the new icon's radio button (it will already be selected, but clicking it will trigger the actual icon change) ¹
The icon should be updated!

Custom Icon

See @pv-g's comment.

Thanks to @kotx for the tip to update without restarting Arc! ↩

johan-stenqvist commented Oct 18, 2024

First of all thank you for the effort put into this article!

But thinking out loud here, would there be a reason why not adding all icons into the availableAppIconNames list would work? I am not very well traveled when it comes to writing to the defaults, but I can clearly see my available icons running:
defaults read company.thebrowser.Browser availableAppIconNames

Maybe one of you guys who know what they are doing would know how if this is possible?
Thank you in advance!

prth1234 commented Dec 6, 2024

Thanks, it works perfectly, Is there a way we can use our own icon????

prth1234 commented Feb 2, 2025

Is there a way to add custom icon?

i dont think so

joe-bro-1 commented Mar 25, 2025

@prth1234 my reply higher up should do it; if theres a problem tell me.

TheEighthDwarf commented Oct 4, 2025 •

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Honestly amazing thread, thank you to everyone here, it works perfectly.

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