Did a brief search for various iterations of android, icon, shrink, discourse - and no love…just a post about someone unable to get transparency working. Android app for a few of my users has been gradually shrinking our site logo a few % each day. Apple user didn’t get the problem, nor did I with…

Good news @here ! This was fixed on Google side so icons won’t get smaller every day anymore! It won’t fix the existing icons yet, so if you want to fix the icons ASAP you will need to reinstall the PWA.

This issue is reproduced by devforum.roblox.com . https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-forum-pwa-app-icon-is-very-small/1975730?u=darkpixlz I cant reproduce on my forum, becasue I dont have an android. Will ask android users when namecheap decides to let the domain exist. In this screenshot the icon …

Before clicking on this topic I was wondering how will the icon shrink, after reading the OP it is just so funny :rofl:

Maybe this is a Contribute > Feature , with lifers only having a white square as a badge of honor :laughing:

Same on my device but I think this is a chrome bug. I didn’t update my forum since august 20 but this strange icon behaviour is only since a few days. So I checked and there was a chrome update on September 5. I think that caused it. Huawei P20 Pro Android 10 Chrome: 105.0.5195.79

Quick update, @Falco is going to have a look at this, looks to me like our auto resizer is re-applying to existing resized images or something like that.

As said by @Don , this appears to be a bug on Google’s WebAPK generation service, as the logo on the manifest file is unchanged and still on the original dimensions. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1363183

Thank you for posting. We are having the same issue and the saga of the shrinking logos is keeping our whole community amused [image] Forum logo shrinking Site Feedback OH MY GOD

[image] Stephen: Maybe this is a Contribute > Feature , with lifers only having a white square as a badge of honor :laughing: This is how small it has gotten for us for one user :joy: [image]

This is expected during the colder months…

FWIW, I noticed this as well but thought it was a fix since the icon was no longer escaping the boundary around it. :laughing: But now I see it’s getting even smaller over time. ObXKCD: [image] Rotation

Android app icon shrinking over time

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“Add to homepage” was the solution, thanks!!

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