How to change your desktop icons on a Mac In macOS, you've got almost complete freedom over what each individual desktop icon looks like.

If you are into customizing how your screen looks on your Mac, you will be happy to know that you can even change the app icons to match your style.

By default, the new Trash folder on your desktop will have a standard folder icon. To change this to a more recognizable Trash icon, you can download a Trash icon image and assign it to the folder.

Want smaller icons on your PC? This guide shows you how to change desktop icon size in Windows 10 quickly and simply.

App icons on macOS don't always look the way you want. Here's how to change them, from start to finish.