Change Arc Browser Icon

change-arc-icon.md

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

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

Custom Icon

See @pv-g's comment.

Footnotes

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

Thanks a lot man!

And if you want to change Dock icon too, do same operation with /Applications/Arc.app/Contents/PlugIns/DockTilePlugIn.plugin/Contents/Resources/Assets.car and next do killall Dock in terminal. Your icon will be persists when open and close browser app =)

Perfect @egorgam 👌

Just still annoying to re-do everything at each app update...
I may write a script someday

Tbh, Im pretty much fine with what Arc gives, just accessible) I absolutely love Glass one!

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!