I always disable it. Having everything using the same exact colour palette is boring/homogenized. The themed icons are even worse, simultaneously killing iconography art and making it much more difficult to differentiate between apps in the app drawer quickly.
I don’t like how it limits you to certain muted colors, but I do like monochrome icon packs for certain setups, like my current one with nova launcher
I set the color theme to as black and white as possible, then use the themed icons because it makes the phone less attractive to look at. Contemplating on setting grayscale mode on full time.
So yes, I don’t like it either.
Apparently not according to the other comments here, but I absolutely love Material You now that a lot of apps support it. Not having every app have its own color scheme just feels comfortable and IMHO makes a lot of sense together with the system-wide dark mode.
Also, the app drawer always has unthemed icons, the themed ones are only for the home screen where I like to keep the few apps that I use often, so not having a colorful mess for a home screen is a bigger plus for me than losing the ability to recognize them at a glance, because I know exactly where on the home screen they are anyway.
I love the consistent colors across my system. A very welcome change to me, personally.
Okay explain why a contact’s icon color is different between stock messaging and phone apps on a pixel 8.
I don’t think they are different? Here’s what the phone, messaging, and contacts app icons look like on my pixel 8.
Edit: I’m a dummy. I just realized you meant the contacts’ icons in each of those apps. I just confirmed those colors can vary between each app. I agree, that does seem like an oversight.
It’s a half-assed project for some high level designer at Google to claim impact.
I wish the UI were actually, meaningfully customizable, but alas…
Can’t you just get a new launcher? That’s day one of getting a new phone for me
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
https://www.xda-developers.com/material-you-monet-theme-engine/
Apparently it’s officially called material you, but that name is so stupid I think I’d prefer to call it by it’s code name too.
That’s stupid. Thank you for sharing.
The stupid Google icons are bad but no I don’t agree otherwise
The themed icons are even worse
Over time I hate themed icons more and more. In like 2013 when I still used Android as my main phone I used to use them. But shortly after that I realized any customization I do myself is just… hideous? And ever since then I’ve hated all of it.
iOS recently added tinted and “dark” icons and they’re all horrendous.
I just looked at the themes available on my Samsung A35. Who pays for a theme?
Is that the thing that colors parts of the UI based on your background? Because I despise that.
I don’t want things to change color. I want the UI to be predictable and stable, so I can use it without distraction.
I agree. I wish I could just set a normal accent color, but it has to be this desaturated few.
