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Spotify Reverts iPhone App Icon to Original Version, Dropping Controversial Disco-Ball Logo

Our long international nightmare is over: Spotify has quietly restored the original 2D app icon for the iPhone after about a month-long takeover by a disco-ball-ified version of the logo, which many users had expressed a strong dislike for. On Thursday (June 11), an update to the Spotify iOS app switched the icon back to […]

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According to Variety’s source item, Spotify Reverts iPhone App Icon to Original Version, Dropping Controversial Disco-Ball Logo, Our long international nightmare is over: Spotify has quietly restored the original 2D app icon for the iPhone after about a month-long takeover by a disco-ball-ified version of the logo, which many users had expressed a strong dislike for. On Thursday (June 11), an update to the Spotify iOS app switched the icon back to […]

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Spotify Reverts iPhone App Icon to Original Version, Dropping Controversial Disco-Ball LogoVariety - 2026-06-12T00:21:50+00:00

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