Some sidebar tab icons disappeared

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Some menu / extension icons in the left sidebar menu disappeared after upgrade to 3.1.10.

Steps to Reproduce

Upgrade to 3.1.10

Expected Behavior

Menu icons being visible

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Cursor 3.1.10

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, I can see in the screenshot that the default icons Explorer, Search, Source Control are still there, and only the extension icons are missing. A few things to check:

  1. Right click the Activity Bar and make sure those items are not hidden. After an update, visibility can get reset.

  2. Reset the layout: Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P > Reset View Locations.

  3. Try disabling and re enabling the extensions that lost their icons, or reinstall them.

  4. Clear cache: close Cursor, delete %APPDATA%\Cursor\Cache and %APPDATA%\Cursor\CachedData, then start it again.

  5. Open Developer Tools and check the Console tab. If you see errors related to loading icons, paste them here.

Also, which extensions exactly lost their icons, and are you using a custom theme or the default one?

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I tried all these solutions and none worked. What worked is opening the command palette and running “Reload Window”. That’s just a workaround, as soon as I close Cursor and re-open it, the same extension icons are hidden.

Extensions that are physically there taking space in the sidebar but not showing the icon are: Container Tools, Postgresql explorer, GitHub Actions, MongoDB, Codex, Claude Code.

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I encountered the exact same issue after the update. Fortunately, a simple window reload fixed it for me.

If anyone else is facing this, here is what worked:

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Cmd + Shift + P on Mac) to open the Command Palette.

  2. Type Developer: Reload Window and press Enter.

Once the window reloads, all the icons should render correctly again. Hope this helps!

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Thanks Yasin - the workaround works for me too.
To be clear this is NOT a fix, it is a temporary workaround that resets after you close Cursor (Win 11) and re-open it. My Claude, Codex and Gemini extensions do not have icons until I do the developer reload thing then they dissappear if I close and re-open Cursor.