{"id":9375,"date":"2026-03-02T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:31:29","slug":"customize-folder-colors-and-icons-in-macos-26-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/customize-folder-colors-and-icons-in-macos-26-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize Folder Colors and Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple has made it easier to<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/mac-help\/customize-folders-files-mac-mchlp2313\/26\/mac\/26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> customize folder appearance<\/a> in the Finder. Control-click any folder and choose Customize Folder. In the panel that appears, click a colored circle to apply that color and then select an icon to display on the folder. Click the Emoji button to choose from the full set of emoji instead of the icons. A few notes: Customization is available for everything except macOS\u2019s Applications, Library, System, and Users folders. These colors are associated with Finder tags, which you can change in <b>Finder &gt; Settings &gt; Tags<\/b>. Although the colors and icons should sync via iCloud Drive, don\u2019t assume they\u2019ll survive other cloud-based syncing services or other actions (like archiving) that may not preserve Finder metadata. In other words, they\u2019re mostly useful for individuals, not workgroups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/customize-folder-colors-and-icons-in-macos-26-tahoe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/Christian Ouellet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple has made it easier to customize folder appearance in the Finder. Control-click any folder and choose Customize Folder. In the panel that appears, click a colored circle to apply that color and then select an icon to display on the folder. Click the Emoji button to choose from the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185],"tags":[126,721,70],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","tag-apple-consulting-ct","tag-apple-support-ct","tag-mac-consulting-ct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}