jenmck reports that the Discourse PWA app icon appears too large on their Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, with the launcher clipping more than the ‘Minimum safe area’ for maskable icons. Falco explains that this is due to the launcher’s behavior with maskable icons, which allows for slight cropping variations across different launchers. jenmck found a workaround using the Theme Park module within Good Lock to customize the icon. Other users, merefield and NateDhaliwal, confirm that the icon appears fine on their Pixel devices, with NateDhaliwal noting that it looks correct on their Samsung A14 as well.
I’m running the stock theme, stock everything. I don’t have another phone otherwise I’d try it there, of course, to see if it is just me. Although, this was the same when I had an S22 Ultra too.
eta: found a solution for Samsung owners using the stock UI. You can use the Theme Park module within Good Lock to create a custom icon pack. What I had to do was set the icon shape to none (the dashed circle) for all icons, upload the Discourse icon with a transparent background and set that as the app icon.
Looks like your launcher is going a bit overboard and clipping a bit more than the “Minimum safe area” for maskable icons .
We mark PWA icons as Maskable by default, so they are allowed to be cropped by each launcher in order to not litter the homescreen with white background around the icons.
The trade-off is that you don’t have complete control over the final look, as it will be slightly differently cropped in every launcher.
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. On my Samsung (A14), I see it like Falco. Glad you found a workaround, though!