The item will change upon manually refreshing the desktop though. the recycle bin doesn’t contain any items when it actually does. This can be troublesome because it shows the wrong information to the user i.e. However, in this problem, your recycle bin icon won’t change and it will remain an empty dustbin.
If the icon is an empty dustbin, which means there isn’t any item in the recycle bin, it should change if you delete a certain item because the deleted item will be sent to the recycle bin.
But, in some cases, you will notice that your recycle bin icon isn’t changing. And it changes these icons automatically. These changes are a good way of showing whether the recycle bin is empty or not. On the other hand, it changes its icon to something that looks like there are papers in the dustbin whenever there are items in the recycle bin.
Since recycle bin contains the deleted items, it changes its icon to an empty dustbin whenever it is empty. The recycle bin’s icon is usually present on the Desktop. Recycle bin, if you don’t know already, is contains all the deleted files of your system.
