website icons in safari 16.3

You can install the Big Sur 11.7.4 update (build number 20G1120).

Then the Safari 16.3.1 update (build number 16614.4.6.11.7). This "fixes an issue that may cause website icons to not load."

Note this is newer than the update which came 2 days ago (Safari version 16.3, build 16614.4.6.11.6).

finally fixed with the latest update! (Safari 16.3.1 / macOS Big Sur 11.7.4)

I can confirm that Safari 16.3 has no fix for the missing favicons. Favorites screen (my default page) is just a sea of empty, grey, boxes. So this does seem to be more linked to a problem with the Big Sur 11.7.3 update and we'll have to wait for 11.7.4. After all, Safari 16.2 and 16.3 don't exhibit this problem on my Monterey system. It's just the Big Sur system with the problem.

same here..all fixed and so pleased

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.

My answer is that I switched to Google (by importing from Safari) for my search engine and it has all the icons showing the logo in the the side bar.

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.

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.

After last update of Safari and Big Sur got everything back to normal. My safari is 16.3.1.

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...

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.