How to customize your Android 13 Pixel’s color palette

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One of the new features introduced in Android 12 was the ability - if you had a Pixel phone - to automatically match your phone's color palette to that of your wallpaper, including what Google calls Themed icons - icons that, instead of using their own colors, take on the color palette you've chosen as a theme.

Back then, you could only theme icons that were offered by Google apps. So, for example, when I tried it out on a Pixel 3 using Android 12 beta, it changed some, but not all, of the icons on my home page into black designs against a hued background. (Quite honestly, I thought the normal multicolored icons looked much better.) Third-party icons, like the one for Slack, remained as they were.

In Android 13, the ability to have your...

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