Website Icons are entirely missing in Safari 8.0

Out of the dozen or so icons it has by default, I added YouTube and Amazon. YouTube is the only one that doesn't appear, so it is probably a YouTube thing.

Can you explain where to get the YouTube Icon and how to add it?

Thanks

You can't add icons manually, they are added by the people who maintain each individual website. Some will work and some won't. You are probably better off contacting YouTube.

Hi Andrew,

I managed to get into the library - but cannot seem to locate the safari folder with touch screen icons

This Worked. Not All Favorites Have Icon But Most Do, deleted folder then clicked address bar and just waited to let them load, thanks brother...

Use the Terminal. Use these command to change into the folder:

cd ~/Library/Safari/Touch\ Icons/

and then use this command to remove files:

rm *

then restart Safari. It worked for me!

Tried it twice with reboots, didn't work.

The Library folder is accessible by clicking on the desktop to ensure you are in Finder, then pressing the "option" key and clicking on "Go" in the menu bar. However, deleting the folder does not work. An Apple tech told me this feature is not available in Yosemite.

chuckdemin: The folder you need to delete is ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons

I don't know what to tell you Chuck: I have tons of Macs around me at work and it works every time. That is how it is done. What on earth do you mean not available in Yosemite? That folder and "Touch Icons" didn't even EXIST until Yosemite.

You might consider making a test user account to see if the problem exists there. If it does then you should probably do yourself a favor and do a clean install of Yosemite

Thank you, Andrew. The Apple tech didn't tell me the folder was unavailable - it is - but that the bookmark favicon are not available in Yosemite. Maybe he was blowing smoke. Deleting this folder did not help me. Maybe when I get up some ambition I'll reinstall Yosemite, but the issue isn't really that devastating.

HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN ICONS FOR ANY BOOKMARK BAR WEBSITE.

(You will need Xcode)

1. Go to Finder, hold "option" (alt) key, click "Go" on the top bar, choose "Library".

2. Go to "Safari" folder, then to "Touch Icons".

3. Open "CacheSettings.plist" file in Xcode.

4. Expand the "Touch Icons" dictionary.

5. In Safari go to "http://onlinemd5.com/".

6. In the second box titled "Generate the hash of the string you input" put the URL (web address) of your bookmark with missing icon, but be sure to put the same address as the one in Xcode (without 'https://' and sometimes without 'www.')

7. Download an image in '.png' of your new bookmark icon.

8. Name it with the output you got from the website above and add '.png'.

9. Move the image to the "Touch Icons" folder.

10. Back in Xcode, expand the dictionary with the web address of your bookmark with missing icon.

11. Turn all the Booleans to "YES".

12. Command + S, Command + Q, quit Safari and when you reopen it all your favourite bookmarks should have icons.

(If your icon has a dark background you can change the "TouchIconTransparencyAnalysisResult" to "2".)

HOPE IT HELPS.

makulshi,

CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH!

I've had to live with ugly grey default icons on some of my favorite sites for years!

I could not figure out how to customize them... until your help!

My Safari looks da shiz now! Thanks so much!