Big Sur 11.7.3 Safari favourites web page “icons” got grey out.

An Apple update this afternoon (15 Feb. 2023) restored almost all my favorites icons in Safari 16.3. My version is now: 16.3 (16614.4.6.11.6, 16614). I'm still using a 27" 5k iMac from late 2014. I don't know how many of us are left but I am grateful to have had 9 years of that gorgeous display.

Off-topic, But I am amused to see Mac users switching to Chrome because Safari seems slow. Perhaps that's the price for Apple's web security. Both browsers have the same Web-kit kernel, but the Chrome app file size is much larger than Safari's. That is, of course, because it takes a lot of code to track and catalog a user's every web experience.

Why don't you install Big Sur 11.7.4 (build 20G1120) and Safari 16.3.1 (build 16614.4.6.11.7)?

This is newer than version 16.3 build 16614.4.6.11.6

Also Safari Version 16.3.1 build 16614.4.6.11.7 says "fixes an issue that may cause website icons to not load."

Well, I was reading an online newspaper this afternoon and a notification box told me I had updates to install so I did. I was not looking for updates until I read your response. Then I found the Safari 16.3.1 update and installed it. I am now using Big Sur 11.7.4, so that was probably installed this afternoon (reference previous post). Is it odd that installation didn't update both the system and Safari at the same time?

Thanks for your post. It cleared up for me whether the loss of icon definition in Safari was a problem with that app or the system.

FINALLY!!!

Upgrading to the latest Big Sur Update 11.7.4 combined with Safari update 16.3.1 fixed this problem for good.

Thank you ALL who posted in this thread despite Apple never publicly acknowledged the bug.

I am glad that I posted this thread on Twitter and Apple Support played dumbed as if everything was normal but I guess they cannot stand the public shaming and fixed the problem.

I also have the same problem that a few of my safari icons have greyed out / white and cannot be seen?

do i have to reload al these icons or is there an update on the system?

Very annoying, does reinstalling Big Sur fix it? Perhaps the brute force solution, but if Apple ignores the problem I see no other options, we have to work with these computers...

If you "empty caches" under the developer menu, some of the icons (but not all) will be restored temporarily. This is only partially helpful. Apple should still fix this bug.

🤦‍♀️ can't believe you went to all that trouble and nothing is fixed. Hellooooo Apple, anyone home?

Same here. Hopefully some has a fix?

I have the same issue. I have nothing new to add--hope it gets fixed soon!

I wish I saw this thread before doing it, but no. I reinstalled Big Sur from scratch, and with 11.7.3 the issue persists. The favourites and the reading list are all missing icons.

Same here. Tried all the same suggested repairs, but nothing worked.

Same here. I did not try any of the stuff everyone else has tried as I figure it will definitely need a fix from apple. So I will wait until then. Hopefully a fix gets released soon.