Downloaded app icons are missing

I will just leave it as is for now as long as it works. I appreciate your efforts and time. Thank you. Look through my guide for sideloading HBO carefully to make sure you did all the steps I lay out, like deleting purchase history on amazon. As I stated before the icon was there before I installed Peacock. After I installed Peacock it became broken. I need to double check if I had that issue with the 4K Firestick. If you want to modify the Bookmarker app icon, you need to delete the Bookmarker app from your list of purchased apps on amazon.

Thanks Elias for a very informative write up. The missing icon issue has been bugging me for some time now. I can confirm that this workaround does indeed work perfectly. The recent 7. Perhaps this issue has a workaround or pending update. Uninstall option now works with recent firmware uodate version 7. Any idea what causes the icons not to appear in the first place? Some sideloaded apps show up fine while others are blank. Missed your emails and knowledge.

Any new updates to report on this issue? The icons on my settings menu for firestick 4k have disappeared The words ie, notification, network, applications, etc. So, does your iPhone screen look something like this, missing icons randomly? If the iPhone starts back up and is still missing icons often they will be different icons missing after a reboot, like a fun game of musical chairs , the next thing to do is to clear up some storage space on the iPhone itself.

Having personally encountered this issue several times with my iPhone 11 running various versions of iOS Or perhaps your contacts are seemingly lost, showing phone numbers instead of names as they should. Nonetheless, try freeing up some storage space on your device, and then rebooting, it should work and the icons should be restored.

Have you experienced this issue where icons are randomly missing from iPhone? Did deleting some stuff and rebooting fix the problem for you? Share with us your troubleshooting experiences in the comments. Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. My Apple Camera icon disaopeared and removing videos from storage and turning off and on did not solve.

Also, my storage shows 58 of GB used. Anything else I can try? I have noted missing app icons on my iPhone, but when I scrolled to the app library page I would see the missing app icons. No missing icons altogether, but I do have a persistent problem with three icons for New York Times sites changing from the Times T to the bee icon that goes with the Times spelling game.

The bee should go with the spelling game; the other two sites should have the T. So some mornings I have three bees; others, Ts. I get that too with my Home Screen bookmark of osxdaily. Also, the apps themselves aren't "missing". Based on your post, it may seem like your Icon and Thumbnail cache database may have been corrupted.

To resolve this, we recommend that you try to delete the cache files in order to rebuild the Icon cache and clear the Thumbnail cache. To do this follow these steps:. Running DISM will help check whether there are file corruptions and fix them. Followed by SFC scan, which helps in taking care of other file corruptions. Restarting Windows Explorer was the first thing I tried and it did not work.

Neither did the following: - Uninstalling Google File Stream others had mentioned problems with that. Of course, with me trying all of the above, one or more of the above steps may have factored into the solution.

I wish I could say. I should note that I have no real computer science experience, just some troubleshooting here and there. If this breaks your system in some way, well, good luck. I also don't recommend doing this if you care about how well Cortana has gotten to know you.

You're starting over with this. So, what I did was this: 1. Reset app defaults to the Windows 10 Default Apps sucks. Move with command 'move "Microsoft. Cortana " "Microsoft.

I think you could theoretically restore. Blame me if you can't. Exit and sign out of "Test. Log out, restart. Sign back into your old user account, try to open Cortana again.

You may note that all of your Cortana settings are gone. For me I didn't care, but you might, in which case, you may wish to restore the old folder. Hopefully that helps. It seems like a few people are having this problem and nothing anyone posted really worked for me except it did help to dig deep with Sysinternals Process Monitor.

You can delete them if you're logged in as an administrator and you kill the Explorer. I tried doing it through the del command while explorer.

All iconcache files get an Access is denied error.