Although you can always find some surface-level similarities between Apple's iOS and Samsung's One UI, the two platforms are more different than they are alike. But if you're transitioning from iOS to One UI and fear that you'll lose the ability to customize app icons, that's one thing you probably have no reason to worry about.Even though the two platforms approach app icon customization differently, and even if it might seem like iOS offers more presets at a glance, One UI offers its own robust set of options worth exploring. So if you are new to One UI, here's what you need to know.What you lose and gain when you switch from iOS to One UIIn terms of app icon customization options, iOS 26 offers Default and Dark modes, a Clear mode that Apple introduced with Liquid Glass, and a Tinted mode that lets users set a custom color for their app icons.Now, both iOS and One UI have frosty blur effects across the UI, but iOS' Liquid Glass is unique to the Apple experience. So, One UI doesn't have the Clear mode option for icons, and for that matter, it doesn't have a Dark mode either.What Samsung has done is offer a color palette option that can recolor both app icons and other UI elements, such as the quick panel.The color palette feature offers several sets of six colors extracted from your current wallpaper. It lets you easily match and complement your UI's color scheme with the wallpaper's.Alternatively, you can choose from a series of basic colors rather than relying on those wallpaper-inspired sets.More to the point at hand, the color palette option also lets you apply the same palette to app icons. That's mainly how One UI handles custom app icon colors. You either use the default color set or a unified color/color set of choices across all (or most) app icons. You can try this feature through the following steps: Pinch the home screen > Wallpaper and style > Color palette > Color palette ON > Apply palette to app icons ON. All things considered, iOS and One UI 8 go about app icon customization in very distinct ways, and each method seemingly has pros and cons.What's important is that even though One UI doesn't actually have a Liquid Glass-based Clear mode for app icons or even a proper Dark mode for app icons, One UI 8 offers its own ways to customize app icons. Color palettes and standard color swatches offer a lot of flexibility.And if you want to go a step further as a One UI user, you can always check out the Theme Park module for Samsung's Good Lock platform. This plugin allows you to customize a variety of other design parameters for app icons, such as shape and gradient effects.Theme Park even has an optional glass effect for app icons, albeit it's not nearly as good-looking and dynamic as Liquid Glass itself.Keep exploring the One UI and Good Lock customization options and you will likely find your favorite combination. Need a One UI phone Browse the latest Galaxy device offers Samsung Shop The post iOS users, don’t worry, One UI 8 has plenty of ways to style your app icons appeared first on SamMobile.