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Breakaway9
Mar 20, 2020Guide
OrbiRBK50
I see many people asking about what the icons mean in the app but see no answers. Very simple - I want to assign an icon to my connected devices but your labels don't appear until after they are assig...
ekhalil
Mar 22, 2020Master
I think the problem the OP is reporting is that when you want to select an icon for the device you’ll only see the different icon options but no description or name for the icon.
Please see the attached snapshot.
Please see the attached snapshot.
tomschmidt
Mar 22, 2020Virtuoso
In the app, the icon choices probably do not include their text description due to space limitations on a phone screen, although they could have written the app such that it added the text description on the device screen. If you use the web interface for the router, then you will see text descriptions rather than the icon when editing, so use it rather than the app for changing the icons for your devices.