website icons in safari 16.3

Lars2Apple wrote:

Where and to whom, at Apple, should I turn?

I would recommend that you provide a bug report using Feedback - Safari - Apple...I have done so.

Favicons gone in Safari is another ASC thread reporting similar experiences.

Lars2Apple wrote:

Feedback forwarded ..., hopefully it will make apple react?

Based upon the number of "Me too" reports it certainly seems to be a common problem. Feedback is the best way for us "users" to let them know.

Incredibly frustrating and it makes it more difficult to select for favourites when icons are missing.

Have you come across and potential fixes on the other mentioned external sites where this has been discussed? Not sure if you are allowed to make reference to those sites, I've been looking for further comments on this but haven't come across much.

I have tried all the solutions known to date. And they don't work. From this version Safari also loses in the Tab settings "Show website icons in tabs". Safari is currently unusable, if anyone has any idea how to solve...

it is certainly a software bug introduced with the latest update safari 16.3 and BigSur 11.7.3 so we can only hope Apples provides an update because true we are running old machines with older macOS but we are still alive and kicking :)

Same issue on Big Sur 11.7.3 and Safari 16.3, pretty sure it happened after Safari update which came out the same day as 11.7.3, seems like a bug, lots of other posts. Hopefully it gets fixed soon, very annoying.

Same issue here on iMac late 2014, clean install after updating to 16.3 and 0SX 11.7.3 (can't update further due to hardware). Tired of things breaking because of updates. Tried all solutions found but to no avail. Contacted support which, after an hour, resulted in being told I'd have to wait for an update. Yet again, an Apple update breaks a perfectly working machine and disrupts my workflow and only a month or so after a complete reinstall due to another broken update. More wasted time = Miffed.

Same issue immediately after updating. Additionally, a problem with update function itself, which when initiatiated is getting stuck in "Checking For Update" mode, and not progressing beyond it. Restarting, SMC reset, First Aid...have no effect on any of this.

I've got the same problem and safari support is useless because they do not know how to correct this problem. I'm thinking that maybe it is time to get a Microsoft computer and do anyway with this apple piece of crap!!

Same same same... and with my bad sight these greyish icons suck, I can't see well where is the one I am looking for, makes waste a lot of time.

I hope Apple fixes it, or next time I am going to go for a High End Microsoft laptop, they seem to work better.

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For what it's worth, it appears that not all favicons fail to display in Safari 16.3/Big Sur 11.7.3.

After wiping my favicons cache and trying to rebuild it by opening each site sequentially, I found that of the 26 news sites I have bookmarked, 11 regained their favicons after being opened; 11 did not; and 4 continued to show the generic "globe" icon. Of the 11 that now show favicons, 8 clearly are based outside the US, including BBS and Reuters, and some sites in South America.

The only US-based news sites to regain their icons are based near me, in North Carolina. None of this makes any sense, but I report it FYI.

Having switched over from "the other lot" in 2014, this is the first software update from Apple that has gotten my goat in the same way that macro-shaft used to do pretty much every week (certainly every month. Come on Apple - why don't you guys fix the issue - 'cos trying to navigate a bunch of grey shaded squares with twiddly little bits of text that us old folk can't see very well is not just poor, it goes beyond that.

Oh, and I tried the other fixes on the web too - and they didn't work for me either.

(groans, hangs head)

By "search engine", can I assume you mean Web browser? The search engine is an application that your web browser uses when you perform a search. Browsers and search engines need each other to do what they do, but otherwise are quite different.

So if you regained access to favicons be switching from Safari to Google's Chrome browser, that's perfectly understandable. However, if you regained access by enabling Google's search engine in Safari's preferences, that would be a thunderbolt moment.

https://www.cloudwards.net › search-engine-vs-browser

I also updated Safari today (February 13th) and I'm also still missing the vast majority of favicons. In my lengthy reading list in the sidebar, they are all missing, even the favicon for this thread that I access from that list. I'm hoping the next update will be the ticket. Fingers crossed.