What Is A Tray Icon

If you use a computer daily, you’ve probably developed a sort of "screen blindness." You focus on the big window in front of you—the browser, the spreadsheet, or the game—but you likely ignore the tiny strip of real estate at the bottom (or top) of your screen.

: Tray icons use "tooltips" (small text boxes that appear when you hover) or changing graphics to tell you exactly what’s happening—like a cloud icon showing a sync progress bar—without interrupting your flow. Quick Actions what is a tray icon