I lost the Safari icon on my desktop how do I put it back on?

Go to your Applications folder. Find Safari there, and drag it to your dock.

Start safari, then right click it's icon in the dock and select Options - keep in dock

And if you are not able to right-click use Opt-click

Ralph Landry1 wrote:

And if you are not able to right-click use Opt-click

Control-Click 😉

Ooops, you're right.