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by aditya42 5691 days ago
A static icon change would achieve the same thing. You don't need animated icons for that.

To OP of this thread: It was another idle comment. The crux of the request was in boldface.

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Changing the icon would make it significantly harder for me to scan and find what I'm trying to run. I worry that it'd be abused with a POTD concept or some such nonsense.

A tighter implementation would be a limited amount over overlay that was configurable -- like the alert # but with more control. The important point being that the underlying icon that I scan for still being available.

MacOS uses this in a number of places to identify download, symlinks and the like.

Does the current version of iOS support static icon changes?
No.