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Help! What is this notification icon ??
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Someone to talk to, in real life, could be very helpful. Personally, I love therapy and am a huge proponent of it. It's helped me through some extremely difficult times.
Something to think about.
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Honestly that's very generic. Don't know what it is, but also don't know why you find it suspicious.
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Hi hadron..tks for the reply..concern is cause its an male icon on it..what for my gf install an apps which have a male icon on it..
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Yeah, but that's like people panicking because they see the Samsung Health icon (female jogger) on their boyfriend's phone (which happens here as well). The fact is that if you are going to put a human in the icon people are going to interpret it as one sex or another, so whatever icon you use it's 50-50 that a suspicious or insecure partner will be worried if it contains a human figure. And as most cultures are sadly male-dominated (and I write that as a male myself) it's more likely that a generic icon will be seen as male unless made explicitly female, or a "male" icon chosen by default.
There's nothing remotely amorous or sexual about this icon. In fact there's nothing clearly male about it: "vaguely humanoid" is how I'd describe it. That is why I cannot see anything suspicious about it. It's more likely to be a contacts app or something like that than a dating app.
And as I half-jokingly said in another thread, if I were cheating I'd have more sense than to send screenshots with incriminating notifications on them to my wife. So never mind character, if you respect her intelligence the default presumption should be that something you don't recognise is innocent until proven otherwise.
The truth is that we get these queries most days, almost always the same story: "I've seen something I don't recognise and am worried that my partner is cheating on me". Mostly we can't identify the icon, because there are over a million apps out there and the elements that worry people most are incredibly common in many different types of app, but when we can it's almost always innocent.
There's nothing remotely amorous or sexual about this icon. In fact there's nothing clearly male about it: "vaguely humanoid" is how I'd describe it. That is why I cannot see anything suspicious about it. It's more likely to be a contacts app or something like that than a dating app.
And as I half-jokingly said in another thread, if I were cheating I'd have more sense than to send screenshots with incriminating notifications on them to my wife. So never mind character, if you respect her intelligence the default presumption should be that something you don't recognise is innocent until proven otherwise.
The truth is that we get these queries most days, almost always the same story: "I've seen something I don't recognise and am worried that my partner is cheating on me". Mostly we can't identify the icon, because there are over a million apps out there and the elements that worry people most are incredibly common in many different types of app, but when we can it's almost always innocent.
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Hi hadron...Yeah, but that's like people panicking because they see the Samsung Health icon (female jogger) on their boyfriend's phone (which happens here as well). The fact is that if you are going to put a human in the icon people are going to interpret it as one sex or another, so whatever icon you use it's 50-50 that a suspicious or insecure partner will be worried if it contains a human figure. And as most cultures are sadly male-dominated (and I write that as a male myself) it's more likely that a generic icon will be seen as male unless made explicitly female, or a "male" icon chosen by default.
There's nothing remotely amorous or sexual about this icon. In fact there's nothing clearly male about it: "vaguely humanoid" is how I'd describe it. That is why I cannot see anything suspicious about it. It's more likely to be a contacts app or something like that than a dating app.
And as I half-jokingly said in another thread, if I were cheating I'd have more sense than to send screenshots with incriminating notifications on them to my wife. So never mind character, if you respect her intelligence the default presumption should be that something you don't recognise is innocent until proven otherwise.
The truth is that we get these queries most days, almost always the same story: "I've seen something I don't recognise and am worried that my partner is cheating on me". Mostly we can't identify the icon, because there are over a million apps out there and the elements that worry people most are incredibly common in many different types of app, but when we can it's almost always innocent.
Thanks very much mate..your respond have soothe my worries....nevertheless ...still hoping that maybe one of the member here are using the said apps and can adv what kind of apps the icon belongs to..once again thanks mate..
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these questions almost always never get fully answered. as @Hadron said there are millions upon millions of apps each with their own notification icon.....so finding what app an icon is is like looking for a single drop of water in a vast ocean.
if it really is worrying you, then just ask your partner. there is no harm in knowing what app that it is for. being suspicious or jealous is not very healthy and can doom the relationship.
i wish you luck, but do not hold your breath that someone will know exactly what the app is.
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