There appears to be no way to remove these Recently Saved bookmarks from the Safari sidebar in the latest MacOS Tahoe. Worse still, the preview bookmarks appear as large image icons (see attached image), which are also impossible to remove. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0
The only way I figured to AVOID this irritation is to create bookmarks on your iPhone or iPad. Then when they sync to your Mac via the iCloud, you have your bookmarks saved where you want them in your bookmarks and any sub folders. Recently saved does NOT appear in the side bar on the Mac.
I hope that Apple listen to users, I mean if the user creates a bookmark they will be saved in to a location they specify. They do NOT need a massive Icon at the top of the Bookmark side bar to remind them they saved a bookmark. A very bad design feature IMHO!
The other alternative is of course (don't use the sidebar) and just use your bookmarks menu!
I thought I found the answer - don't do what I just did. Even though "Recently Added Bookmarks" was greyed out, I started swiping right and deleting each recently added bookmark from the list. There were many - so I highlighted the remaining list and hit "delete". All gone - and deleted from my bookmarks, too. AGHHH!
(MAC OS Sequoia 15.7)
so not so much a fix, but when I open safari, I just click on favorites in the side bar and then it just shows me my stuff... the ugly saved thing goes away... just have to deal with it when I open new windows. Trying to get it to open new windows and open Favorites in the sidebar but haven't figured it out yet... maybe some clever editing of a plist, but I need to work on that when I have more time.
mildso wrote:
Apple might be saying "too bad" live with it. I did not count, by now there may be fifty thousoand post on this subject.
Have you actually told Apple how you feel?
sxbsxb - I may have responded too soon. I just saved a new bookmark and now can't delete it from the Reading List. It's crazy that Apple automatically shows Recent Saved bookmarks with large icons, with no way to disable this.
When I show the Reading List Sidebar, it is empty, so that can't be the answer. I hope Apple fixes this. I just want to have my Favorites shown in the sidebar. They keep trying to make that more difficult for some reason. I assume they are trying to force us to use tabs or it has to do with the melding of iOS and MacOS
Same issue. There is nothing on the reading list to eliminate. If I add a new bookmark to saved bookmarks, I must have this huge thumbnail dominating the sidebar. To eliminate it, I need to eliminate the bookmark - but I want to keep the bookmarks (that is the whole point of bookmarks?). I find this annoying and question why I cannot customise Safari. I have written to Feedback and hope if enough people comment it will be addressed.
I want "Recently Saved" removed from bookmarks, not the reading list. They are not the same thing and serve different purposes.
Furthermore the whole bookmarks pane has turned to garbage. The formerly expandable bookmark folders were a great way to see everything in one place and move bookmarks between folders. The new bookmark pane switches to a folder pane which overcomplicates a simple process, takes up way too much space with huge bookmark links, and is completely counterproductive.
Get it together apple! If I wanted inferior junk I would go back to a windows based system!
Sorry, but I don't think you figured it out. My reading list is empty but I still have the Recently Saved bookmarks at the top of my sidebar. I spoke to Apple technicians twice and they couldn't figure out how to remove them never mind preventing them from appearing every time you save a bookmark.
I guess, we can in this tread, talk about, Post, come with suggestions, Try this, Try that, till the cows come home, seems like Apple Developers NOT looking our concerns. Even if they, Tuff Luck, get used to it.
I want to see a simple list of my bookmarks (i.e., the way it was before 26.1), organized the way I organized them, without having to waste time scrolling through a bunch of garbage. I don't need the icon pictures (they take up a lot of space), I don't need the "Recently Saved", and definitely DO NOT need AI generated descriptions. I am perfectly capable of creating bookmarks with my own reminder cues. This is not an "update". It is an inefficient "dumb-it-down-date". Please give us the option to change the view back to the clean, simple view that it was.
I don’t have 3 dots as was pictured.
Agree that those who share a workspace or living space, this update is super bad.
Anyone can see the last links you have put on your reading list.
No birthday or Christmas shopping surprises now in this house on this shared computer.
Previously one had to ‘open’ a Reading List folder (which others never did).
In any case the privacy issue remains.
What was Apple thinking.
Maybe Not thinking.
I don’t have the 3 dots on my update either.
As a corespondent has posted they don’t reduce the icon size.
There is no need for the Reading List to be this visible.
Seems the only option is to not use Safari.
I don’t have the 3 dots on my update either.
You won't have the 3 dots if you are still on OS v15 or before but you WILL if you are on OS v26 Tahoe unless there is something very weird about your computer. If you update to Tahoe the dots WILL reduce (compact) the bookmarks in the new Safari version but WON'T reduce the large irritating row of icons at the top underneath the search bar which have been foisted permanently on users for some reason. Hope this helps. If you can update the OS then I would recommend it personally.
How do I permanently remove Recently Saved bookmarks from the Safari sidebar in MacOS Tahoe?
