safari favourites icons missing

If you notice that your Safari favorites icons are missing, clearing your cache and restarting Safari is the fastest way to get them back. There is another alternative way of opening the affected website in a private Safari window; I will look at it in detail later in the article.

I have a handful of websites in my bookmarks/favourites section on Safari. Including well known sites such as Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. However I've noticed that a few of them down have the icons for the website.

Hello, When I click on a new tab in Safari, it shows me all the pages I have bookmarked. After clearing cookies and history, most of the webpage icons are missing and it is very difficult for me to distinguish my bookmarks.

It sounds like you'd like icons to appear beside websites you choose as favorites. From your screenshot, it looks like the way your favorites are appearing is expected. They won't include an icon or image. Check here for information about that: Add websites to your Favorites in Safari on Mac - Apple Support.

Are some website icons missing or showing incorrectly in Safari? Learn how to refresh Safari favicons on your Mac to force the browser to fetch the new icons and display everything correctly. A favicon is the small website logo you see in your browser tab.

Update: If you do not anticipate adding or removing websites to your Favorites list very often, you can lock the Images folder (~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons Cache/Images) to prevent your computer from overwriting or deleting the icons you just added.

This step-by-step guide addresses common problems like missing or not displaying favicons, enhancing your browsing experience. Say goodbye to generic icons and hello to a visually appealing...

In the Safari app on your Mac, make sure all the bookmarks in the Favorites bar are displayed. If you see angle brackets at the right end of the bar, click them to show the rest of your bookmarks, or widen the Safari window. If you don’t see the bar at all, choose View > Show Favorites Bar.

It's not obvious, but you can easily prevent favicons from appearing in the Favorites Bar. Simply right-click anywhere on the bar and uncheck Show Icons in the pop-up menu.

Learn how to customize and change the icons of your Safari favorites with simple steps and extensions. Enhance your browsing experience today!