[Chris Sandiford]

Splitting hairs if you ask me. Give it some time, you wont even notice it after a while.

I probably won't. And it'll probably stop annoying me. The point is it shouldn't even be happening, as they have fúcked up the icon.

[Tiaxx]

I would not go as far as calling it a bug, though. It's more of an annoyance: icon widths/alignments are not consistent.
Should be changed nevertheless, as it appears to be an extremely easy change anyway.

[berty6294]

Wait so is the issue the actual icon dancing? Or the fact that it does it when you're not using data?

[Andrea988]

Splitting hairs if you ask me. Give it some time, you wont even notice it after a while.

Agreed, I've never noticed either until I read this but it's no big deal, it's just a tiny icon. Whoever has designed it has justified the image to the left, maybe that's the default setting, so when you add an arrow to the image it moves the image further to the right. But honestly, so what?

Having said that, looking at mine now on the 930 it doesn't do it.

[Theo_andravida]

Yup

[Warren_S]

It's the most annoying thing. I'm jumping ship. Say Hello to Android again.

I'm trying to be funny, but I usually fail. Anyway, I got the Lumia 630 and it has the little arrow. And it does actually annoy me a little too

[Vitor Salvatore Pierce]

You have problems. LOL

[Vitor Salvatore Pierce]

My Lumia Icon has it on 8.1 dev preview. I think it is like Chris said a carrier option. I believe mine was just enabled by Verizon with the update released like a week ago.

I think the operator has to activate.
My 720 is Country Variant (BR, FR, FI, AU) and never had it in Black.
But when I put a Chinese firmware from a carrier, appeared....

[ak_r7]

Does your WiFi icon dance when it is using data (with arrow) and not (without)?
Mine does and it's annoying.

I don't know whether they are two separate graphic images or the arrow gets added to the non-active icon but regardless, it jumps to the right and left all the time. As you can see from the images, there are a few pixels difference in the footprint taken by the active arrowed icon, causing a shift to the right.

The cellular data icon's arrow is added within the bars so it stays static.

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I tweeted @WinPhoneSupport and this is the following conversation, resulting in them making me question if it was just my experience. I thought - surely not, it's an O/S thing - they just need to move that arrow nearer the WiFi arcs.

https://twitter.com/drofidnas/status/494969858845868033

So.. anyone else?

Yes..happening for me as well
1520-with cyan

[tanzim31]

Same here

[trwrt]

I noticed it right away too. It's distracting and also irritating to think what poor attention to detail it demonstrates. I guess nobody at Microsoft uses their own product or gives a damn because this would have taken minutes to fix and is a very obvious flaw.

PS to some of you: this is Microsoft we're talking about here, not your mother. Calm down.

[Ed Boland]

So you think the little arrows are a bug? It's not a bug. It's two different icons; one, a wifi signal by itself, or a wifi signal with an arrow..... Of course it moves over to the right a little... To be able to fit the arrow... this bothers you?

[Lance_WPCentral]

The little arrows are a sign that your data connection or Wifi are being actively used. I like the feature and its come with Cyan. Earlier on one couldn't tell if their connection was idle or in use.

[Ed Boland]

Yes, I happen to like the little "dancing" wifi and arrow icons myself. Why not have them dancing left and right?? What is it getting in the way of? I don't get it..

[Leonardo Flojo]

I think its not a bug

[Ed Boland]

I think its not a bug

Of course it's not a bug. They put the arrows there intentionally...

[VaticanUK]

I've only just read this thread after updating to 8.1 Update 1, but I'm not seeing any movement on my 930... maybe update 1 has fixed it?

[trwrt]

This appears to be fixed in the WP 8.1 Update 1 available on the Preview for Developers program. Good, someone is paying attention after all!

[JoaoCSM]

Yes, WP8.1 Update 1 fixed the arrow issues.

[Tiaxx]

Yeah, I can confirm it's no longer jumping :)

[Chris Sandiford]

Yep, fixed! They have moved the arrow closer to the arcs, as I suggested. Rant over!

Thanks to those who posted supportive comments.
Two fingers to the rest of you

/thread

[Cliff Ravelo]

I don't know how I fixed it. But when I updated my white 1020 to 8.1 + Cyan seeded by AT&T the wifi with arrow icon starts dancing, then I updated to 8.1.1 DP and it was STILL dancing, since my white 1020 is my 2nd 1020 (my first is a yellow one, and I still have it as my main) I had to restore the phone so all data on the yellow 1020 will sync on the white 1020. When everything was reset on the white 1020 the wifi with arrow icon STOPPED dancing.

[Cliff Ravelo]

+1

However, I would never have noticed if you had not brought it up, but that is just me.

I don't know how I fixed it. But when I updated my white 1020 to 8.1 + Cyan seeded by AT&T the wifi with arrow icon starts dancing, then I updated to 8.1.1 DP and it was STILL dancing, since my white 1020 is my 2nd 1020 (my first is a yellow one, and I still have it as my main) I had to restore the phone so all data on the yellow 1020 will sync on the white 1020. When everything was reset on the white 1020 the wifi with arrow icon STOPPED dancing.