Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "David B." Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:14:53 +0100 Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: <108bvqj$22j89$1@dont-email.me> <108c6pe$249ss$1@notronniebarker.dont-email.me> <108cqvi$29dvs$1@dont-email.me> <68a9f75f$3$25$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <108eg3b$2lpns$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: boaterdave@hotmail.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2IOLLU/pT379FYKKjCFTFA4MPA672waVdVaDDJjM6a93coLN2p Cancel-Lock: sha1:IOcAyCzJJiDVtwkBdC3ufBkeP4M= sha256:rpmyAcJGJEARTu+eijTFCyvcO+6HZuz/nWGowUfIhdY= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <108eg3b$2lpns$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:181710 On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote: > On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" wrote: > >> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote: >>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B wrote: >>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B wrote: >>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square >>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly, >>>>>>> apart from anything else. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder? >>>>> >>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown >>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it? >>>> >>>> Further investigation ... >>>> >>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off. >>> >>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help. >> >> Hello again, Very Old John! 🙂 >> >> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but >> I'd like to make a suggestion. >> >> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be >> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it! >> >> >> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options. >> >> Good luck! >> >> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like? >> I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8 > > https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g > > The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in > their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc > page and the Bin. > > BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90) [snip] Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂 You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed with ChatGPT:- https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109 Perhaps you'd like to comment further? -- David