Adding Bookmarks to Safari

J Soap,

Good to hear you were able to find a resolution. If needed, be sure to also check out the guide page here: Keyboard shortcuts and gestures in Safari on Mac

If you continue to have any issues, test in a new user account for the behavior as well. You can also reach out to Apple Support directly to further assist.

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Best.

I also thought that Safari wasn’t adding bookmarks to the selected folders. Sometimes I’d even make another attempt. Bookmarks that I carefully, and clearly, selected to be kept in selected folders, just weren’t showing up where they were supposed to be, and where they have always been added for some 20 years. At the bottom of the list of bookmarks, in a selected folder.

And then out of frustration, I did a thorough search for those evasive, newly added bookmarks. 

And then I located them, but they weren’t being added to the bottom of the list of bookmarks in selected folders, but were being added to the top of the list of bookmarks in the selected folder. 

Really throws a monkey wrench into my bookmark arrangement preferences.

Now I’ll have to manually reorganise the newly added bookmarks, in effected folders.  

Is there any way to prevent this from happening again?

Salutations J Soap, 

To help us help you, can you tell us more about what happens when you try to add a bookmark? Is the option to add a bookmark missing? If it is there and you attempt to add a site, where does it attempt to add the bookmark? Favorites, Bookmarks or somewhere else? 

We’d also like to have you attempt to manage your bookmarks and you can do that a couple ways. The following article goes over one of them under the section, ‘Manage bookmarks’ - Bookmark webpages that you want to revisit in Safari on Mac

1. In the Safari app on your Mac, click the Sidebar button in the toolbar, then click Bookmarks.

2. Control-click a bookmark or folder.

3. Choose from the shortcut menu to do one of the following:

• Rename or edit a bookmark or folder. You can also force click the name, or click and hold the name until it’s highlighted and then enter a new one.

• Edit a bookmark’s website address (URL).

• Copy or delete a bookmark or folder.

• Create a bookmark folder.

• See detailed folder contents.

To edit a bookmark’s description, double-click a folder in the sidebar, then Control-click the item and choose Edit Description.

You can also manage bookmarks by choosing Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks.

Could the bookmarks you’re attempting to add be going to a folder or section you’re not expecting? 

Thanks.