diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c797c54..8032c94 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: shinyFeedback
 Type: Package
 Title: Displays User Feedback Next to Shiny Inputs
 Version: 0.0.3
-Date: 2016-12-19
+Date: 2017-04-09
 Authors@R: person("Andy", "Merlino", email = "merlinoa88@gmail.com", role =
     c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Easily display user feedback next to Shiny inputs.  The feedback message is displayed when the feedback condition evaluates to TRUE.
diff --git a/R/feedback.R b/R/feedback.R
index 8316dc2..b4951d4 100644
--- a/R/feedback.R
+++ b/R/feedback.R
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ feedback <- function(inputId, condition, text = NULL, color = NULL,
   # some argument checks
   stopifnot(is.character(inputId))
   stopifnot(is.logical(condition))
-  icon <- as.character(shiny:::validateIcon(icon))
+  icon <- as.character(icon)
   stopifnot(is.character(text) || is.null(text))
   stopifnot(is.character(color) || is.null(color))