Safari bookmarks won't stay put

So you rearrange the bookmarks, and they snap back. You rearrange them again, and they don't snap back. When you quit and relaunch Safari, is the arrangement still the way you left it?

I have this issue, too, but the bookmarks don't stick even after a second attempt at rearranging them to my liking. Has there been any improvement in behavior other than by using the workaround you mention, MacSkillet? That is, has Apple made any improvements in a positive direction?

Nothing has changed as of just now. This is WAY beyond irritating. Apple needs to pay some serious attention to things that non-novices want to do — keeping Safari bookmarks arranged the way the user wants, making iCloud work right, editing the distribution list in Contacts, major improvements to the OS/Application Help system, and (maybe this is just me) making the offline versions of Pages and Numbers serious contenders as productivity software.

I just posted a possible workaround to this in another discussion. This worked for me, where I had no success trying to simply move a new bookmark folder to the top spot in my bookmarks because of the issue described above.

Move the new bookmark or folder to the second spot, not the topmost spot. Then move the bookmark or folder above it so that it's below it. For me in two instances, everything stayed. In every case where I tried to move something new to the top spot, it eventually moved back to the bottom. Still not working right but at least I got things how I want them.

I hope this helps some people.

I have the same problem.

ScottNY71's work-around doesn't even apply to my case, where I want to add a new bookmark into the middle of a long list of (ca. 120) bookmarks I use to keep track of what profile and info I have stored on any given site I visit.

After the list hit ca 80, I started experiencing the bounce back to the bottom phenomenon. Up to about 100, after resetting the bounced-back bookmark, a second-time, it stayed. After 100, they don't seem to stay and sometimes they bounce down in blocks of two or three.

This is a drag, if it works well for 50, it should work well for 500, or 5000. I don't understand why normal behaviour is not totally scalable.

This is yet another example of Apple totally failing to listen to its users. As with the above comments, this is such an incredible annoyance. The workaround shouldn't need to be a convoluted user fix.

Unfortunately, after six + dedicated years with all Apple products, I ain't going to be looking at their products next time around.

Don't listen to your customers at your peril.

Apple = fundamental business decline.