Set the Tone

In Apple’s latest iOS 18 update, users will now have the option to colorize in a monotone approach their app icons as well as to organize them in any composition within the grid. While the latter creates some awkward layouts and is silly but harmless, the former, as Brian Jackson argues at the link, renders each app’s color choices both moot and mute eroding any color association the app had already built with its users and giving designers one more thing to worry about on the performance of their icon.