By Sandy Writtenhouse Updated March 20, 2024 JoshuaWoroniecki/Pixabay There's a lot to love about Mac, but one of its quirkier features is how easy it is to change icons for files and folders.

How to change folder icons/colors on Mac If you wish to set a new icon, open the image you wish to use and Copy it. Select file/folder you wish to edit and Control + click, select Get Info.

How to change the folder icons on a Mac First, you need to pick out the picture that you want to set as your new icon. This can be a meme, a picture of yourself, the same folder icon but in a ...

Customize the Finder Sidebar The Finder sidebar is where all of your favorite local folders, iCloud Drive files, and connected volumes appear. You’ll also find network locations, mounted disk ...

You can also delete the text under the folder and replace it with a blank space to show only emoji on your desktop, without any labels. For more, check out 10 Mac apps everyone should be using.

Why have boring blue folder icons on your desktop when you can turn them into cats? Well, cat emoji at least. As CNET first pointed out, it turns out you can quickly customize your Mac desktop ...

I’m thrilled to announce MacStories Shortcuts Icons, a set of 300 custom icons for shortcuts added to your Home screen, designed by the MacStories team. Here’s the short version of this story: the set ...

Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard drives on his Mac, and wanted an easy way to tell them apart - so he made a custom icon for each. To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is ...