website icons in safari 16.3

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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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.

Monday Feb. 13 Apple issued a Safari update. IT DID NOTHING TO FIX THE PROBLEM> HEY APPLE< HOW ABOUT HIRING SOME TECHS THAT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Sent another Bug report which seems to be a waste of time.

Another new wrinkle observed with the latest Safari update, 16.3 (16614.4.6.11.6, 16614):

Fewer websites show blank favicon spaces — instead, they retain the "wireframe globe" generic icon. Websites that show no favicons now are mostly among those that still displayed their favicons after the previous Safari update. So the problem is flipped on its head, but with no actual improvement.

Apple's lack of response on this issue might raise the question of whether this fault in Safari is a nudge for Big Sur users to migrate to Ventura, where no such problem has been reported. But surely not, eh?

The various Ventura OS forums talk about lots of bugs with Ventura OS. I feel it's not safe to upgrade. I wish there was a way to install Monterey. I'll have to start keeping a major OS update on a USB stick.

I'll just deal with the missing icons as I've pretty much already adapted. No sense it picking up all the Ventura issues.

One major mistake I made and won't make again, is updating too soon. Normally I wait a week or two to see what features any update breaks, this time I did not, had my guard down.

Finally got a notification on iMac that an update was available. Downloaded it and it seems to work as before, funny thing is that I cannot get System Preferences to find the update on my MacBook Pro which has the same old issues. it just sits and spins looking for an update.

Yes thanks Ferd II I have just opened a case on Apple support link above you provided.

You are welcome.

Thanks for this thread, good to know it's not just me. I spent a lot of time searching the Apple Community for help.

I've also sent a Bug Report. Hope it's addressed and fixed.

Thanks everyone.

we are at 130+ people in this thread with the same issue ... Apple read and act please :)