How to Change Icons on a Mac
Many icon collections are available on the web. The easiest way to find Mac icons is to search on the phrase “Mac icons” in your favorite search engine. You’ll find numerous sites that offer free and low-cost icon collections for the Mac, including IconFinder and Deviantart. After you locate icons online that you want to use to personalize your Mac, here’s how to change up your desktop.
Changing a Mac’s Icon With an ICNS Icon
The Apple Icon Image format supports a wide variety of icon types ranging from tiny 16-by-16-pixel icons to the 1024-by-1024 ones for Retina-equipped Macs. ICNS files are a handy way to store and distribute Mac icons, but their one downside is that the method of copying an image from the ICNS file to a folder or drive is slightly different from the usual process and not as well-known.
