Codex app icon does not respect macOS Tinted icon appearance

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 19, 2026 by sftimeless

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.814.41957

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.6.0 arm64 arm $

What issue are you seeing?

On macOS 26, the Codex app icon does not respect the system’s Tinted icon appearance.

When System Settings → Appearance → Icon & widget style → Tinted is enabled, other compatible application icons (including ChatGPT) adopt the selected tint, but Codex continues displaying its standard blue/purple icon on a white background.

This has persisted for approximately one month and across Codex updates.

I have also tried:

  • Quitting and relaunching Codex
  • Restarting the Dock
  • Refreshing the application bundle/icon cache
  • Changing macOS icon appearance away from Tinted and back

The behavior persists.

Expected: Codex should adopt the macOS Tinted icon treatment like other compatible macOS applications.

Actual: Codex retains its standard white-background icon regardless of the system Tinted appearance.

Screenshot attached showing Codex remaining untinted between applications that correctly adopt the system tint.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

<img width="332" height="1011" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d5517af3-48e1-4e59-b2ad-28a12c135c62" />
<img width="370" height="984" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b38c6ba-3d89-4618-ac98-298ab1515d33" />
<img width="399" height="913" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/911f3a7a-2759-46df-ba77-9f5f4f5be2e2" />
<img width="369" height="963" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/71091949-9e94-458c-9819-dfb00d11b279" />

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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1 Comment

sftimeless · 9 days ago

I've already tried:

1) Restarting the app

2) Restarting my macOS Tahoe (it's up-to-date 26.6.1 on a MacBook Pro M3 Max)

3) Deleting the app, reinstalling it

4) Removing from the dock, and putting it back + the combination above (e.g. deleting the app, restarting, installing)

5) I ran

a)

killall Dock

b)

touch /Applications/Codex.app
killall Dock

c)

sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store

killall Dock

killall Finder

For the record before your major release it was working perfectly fine, when you integrated ChatGPT Work + Codex into one app this problem started.

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