How do I get rid of the NEW tag on the MS Teams icon? (OS X / Mac)

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I've just installed the new "Teams (for school /work)" (which is a really ugly application name, but I digress).

The icon has this big blue "NEW" graphic on it. It did not go away after opening and closing a few times. How do I remove it?

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I think the Microsoft software team have now lost it completely. I now have outlook and teams icons in my taskbar, complete with the "new" label written on them, plus my old icons to the older versions. Complete mess.

When will they remove the "new" label? Maybe the next version will have a "newer" label.

Plus the new icon not showing status is a real downgrade.

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Select "Microsoft Teams classic.app" in Finder->Get Info, Copy icon.

Select "Microsoft Teams (work or school).app" in Finder->Get Info, Paste icon.

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2024-05-14T21:30:51+00:00
That worked!!! For clarity: MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1
Yaaay!!! Thank you!!https://answers-afd.microsoft.com/static/images/image-not-found.jpg
My solution was:

Download this replacement logo: https://imgur.com/pWoIdFN

Then in Finder -> Applications, Right click 'Microsoft Teams (work or school)' and select 'Get Info'

Drag and drop the new icon image on top of the small icon in the top right.

To make the replacement logo I did this:

Obtain the microsoft teams logo without the 'new'. I used the '.svg' which is hosted on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Office_Teams_(2018–present).svg

Obtain the branding guidelines from apple for the 'rounded square'. This is hosted on the apple design resources: https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

Used sketch to make it. https://www.sketch.com/ , https://medium.com/kennethlng/how-to-use-apples-app-icon-sketch-template-for-xcode-2a4458c75ac1
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2023-11-22T17:13:53+00:00

how do we "thumbs up" an answer... I couldn't agree more!
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2023-11-21T14:41:21+00:00

Hope the reminder pop ups that it's new stop soon too
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