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While I see the use of changeable text in icons, like the calendar app employs, why would anyone want to have animated icons? Perhaps it would be an "eye candy" thing to show off with for 10 seconds, but I'm sure it would be annoying in the long run. Any ideas for reasonable uses of animated icons?

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Yes, Statsheet was denied putting 345 apps in the store for each college basketball team. If we are only allowed to have one app, then the user could choose which team is theirs, and then the front Icon would change to represent their team.

A static icon change would achieve the same thing. You don't need animated icons for that.

To OP of this thread: It was another idle comment. The crux of the request was in boldface.

Changing the icon would make it significantly harder for me to scan and find what I'm trying to run. I worry that it'd be abused with a POTD concept or some such nonsense.

A tighter implementation would be a limited amount over overlay that was configurable -- like the alert # but with more control. The important point being that the underlying icon that I scan for still being available.

MacOS uses this in a number of places to identify download, symlinks and the like.

Does the current version of iOS support static icon changes?

No.

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