How do I delete custom MacintoshHD icon. I don’t mean hiding it from the desktop, I just changed the icon a while back with the folder icons so that they would look nice, but now with macOS Tahoe I want to use the default look with built in folder customization but i can’t change the main drive icon back to its default look.
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Original Title: MacintoshHD icon
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0
Not used Tahoe yet, however are you able to Get Info on the folder, this should bring up the details and show the icon. You can then copy and paste an icon you like, unless the system has totally changed!
Hi thanks for the answer.
However I don't want to paste a new icon onto the drive icon, I want to delete it so thet it changes to the default Liquid Glass one (the new one where people were surprised that its a ssd instead of a hard drive) but every time I open info about the drive and click the icon in the left top corner and try to delete it I get the error sound and it stays the same.
Malinow wrote:
How do I delete custom MacintoshHD icon. I don’t mean hiding it from the desktop, I just changed the icon a while back with the folder icons so that they would look nice, but now with macOS Tahoe I want to use the default look with built in folder customization but i can’t change the main drive icon back to its default look.
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Original Title: MacintoshHD icon
this is the new default —
if you Control click on a folder you see the "customize" as an option; not true for the Macintosh HD on the Desktop.
To be proactive you can submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple
The problem stems from having changed the icon in the past prior to updating macOS. I did this years ago when the Macintosh HD started being an SSD. The HD icon just didn't cut it for me anymore. Now after having updated to Tahoe it retained my custom icon and I can give it another new icon via the Get Info dialog just like you could for decades, but I can’t delete the icon to get the new default one. It just does nothing if you try.
I may not like the new default icon anyway, but at least wanted to take a look at it first. So getting the default from some location in the System folder and pasting it is the only way to go.
I have yet to find it though. It seems to not reside in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
EDIT: Found it: /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns
I am currently tempted to use the Floppy Disk icon from /System/Library/Extensions/IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Floppy.icns
instead… 🙃
Have you tried 'Get Info' on the folder then 'Command X' (cut)?
Command + delete nor command + x works 😓
you can still go to the Get info and change the icon there.
Command Z will undo any changes you make or had made.
Similar to @Jon Hitchcock's suggestion, IIRC I think on older versions of macOS I was able to click the icon in the Get Info window & press the Delete key.
I found a way to fix this. I went to finder > MacintoshHD > system > volumes and some volumes had the default icon and I copied it from there and pasted it to MacintosshHD on the desktop
Cannot revert MacintoshHD icon to default on macOS Tahoe
