Relatedly: in my Nightly profile on another phone where I've got some history, if I tap "Show all" for the shortcuts/top-sites section of the Home Screen, I see a grid of 16 shortcuts, **all of which have a pin icon**, none of which I've explicitly pinned. Really I think only two of those are pinned in any sense - the top-left and top-right one (Google/Wikipedia). The other two in the top row are sponsored which are programmatically-replaceable and not-pinned, and the rest of them are drawn from my history and are also programmatically-replaceable (unless I were to explicitly pin them in some way like on Desktop -- but for now at least it seems we don't offer a way to do that on Android). So: since everything is shown as "pinned", the pin badge feels confusing/meaningless right now.
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Relatedly: in my Nightly profile on another phone where I've got some history, if I tap "Show all" for the shortcuts/top-sites section of the Home Screen, I see a grid of 16 shortcuts, **all of which have a pin icon**, none of which I've explicitly pinned. Really I think only two of those are pinned in any sense - the top-left and top-right one (Google/Wikipedia), which IIRC we do legitimately pin as default shortcuts that stick around (unless removed by the user). The other two items in the top row are sponsored, which are programmatically-replaceable and hence don't feel truly "pinned"; and the rest of them are drawn from my history and are also programmatically-replaceable and also don't feel truly "pinned" (unless I were to explicitly pin them in some way like on Desktop -- but for now at least it seems we don't offer a way to do that on Android). So: since everything is shown as "pinned" despite being mostly dynamically-replaceable, it ends up that our pin badge feels confusing/meaningless right now.