I recently noticed that the choice of device icons is now severely limited. This is for all devices (switches, lamps) and all brands. Is there a fix? I would like my plug-in switch to use the Christmas tree icon, but that and the others are gone. This change happened a few updates ago.
I have never seen a Christmas tree icon for devices. There is a Christmas tree icon for automations. I am using an Android 14 phone and tablet.
Well, similar to OP, for many years the icon for my smart outlet that I use to control my Christmas tree was a Christmas tree icon, not an outlet icon.
At some point it reverted to the stupid generic outlet icon, and the only options to change it to now are a small number of irrelevant icons, like a coffee pot, lamp, and fax machine…
Yes, the team removed the pages of useful icons, but left an icon for a device prominently used in the 80’s and 90’s, prior to modern smart home tech, and for which there is not a single ancient or current device (fax) that is actually compatible with SmartThings. Doh!
Funny, but not funny! That last icon belongs in a museum!
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My observation is that the available icons vary by device or perhaps driver, and when they are not the default ones, they are fixed. Really inconsistent. I do have the XMAS tree for automations, but yes, the default icons are lame. On Ios, I only have 8 choices, but alas no fax machine, lol.
Me neither. Unless you feel the air purifier icon looks like a Christmas tree.
I see different selections of icons for the Switch, Light and SmartPlug categories and they don’t seem to have changed much, if at all, for a long time.
I don’t really see the point of limiting the choice of icon by category, especially when there is overlap. For example the Light category has an option that I assume is meant to represent fairy lights. Unsurprisingly my fairy lights plug into a Switch or a SmartPlug, not a Light. In fact I don’t possess a Light, except for a virtual device created with that category as a test. I feel the app developers are trying to do some unnecessary thinking there.
Which one do you think meant to be a fax? The only one that looks similar to me is meant to be the printer icon. That’s one of the few I’ve used.
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Ah, yes, the elusive ‘printer’ icon, just as useful as a fax machine icon in SmartThings—except neither of them are compatible with SmartThings. Guess the team thought we needed a reminder of the '90s tech we definitely won’t be using in the future. Maybe next update they’ll add an icon for a floppy disk, a dial-up modem, or an 8-track player, just to keep the nostalgia train rolling. 
Not many remember, apparently, but the icons currently available for manually run routines used to also be available to customize any device icon… including the actual Christmas tree icon, not just the air purifier icon that may resemble a Christmas tree.
It seems not. The last time I can recall seeing a broad range of icons it was in the Classic app.
The current range of icons for both manual and automatic Routines is a relatively recent addition to the Android app for me. Previously manual routines had a handful of pretty useless ones and I don’t think automatic routines had anything at all.
Printers are very much of the present in our home. I don’t use them much personally but still probably ten times as much as I did twenty years ago.
How about a ScaleToMeasureMassOfHumanBody?
Sounds like the change may have happened earlier this year when the classic app was replaced. I remember in the past there were probably 20-30 icons to choose from in various categories. Now the choices are very limited for any type of device.
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On Android here, and every year i changed the innoveli smart plug running a window AC unit to rename it as Xmas Tree and I’d change the icon from a switch to the Xmas tree. Tried to do this today, but alas, no options to do so, which got me to this thread. Bring back the icons!
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Maybe Samsung cancelled Christmas this year 