How do I get my Favorites Safari icons back?
How do I get my Favorites Safari icons back?
iPhone 4S, iOS 9.3.2
How do I get my Favorites Safari icons back?
iPhone 4S, iOS 9.3.2
I just tried it but unfortunately they haven't come back.
How did you lose them? If they were in your latest backup, just restore the backup.
I lost them once in an ios update. They came back in a more recent update, but they disappeared again and haven't come back.
Try going to Settings > ICloud > and see if Safari is enabled. If so disable it, restart the phone and enable Safari again. See if they come back this way.
Do you have a backup in iTunes from the time that the Favorites were still there? If so you could try restoring that backup.
No, I don't think I have a backup from when they were still there.
DennisFerri wrote:
No, I don't think I have a backup from when they were still there.
I'm curious. Have your Favorites disappeared entirely, as in from bookmarks as well? If you were to tap on the bookmarks button, and tap Favorites in the list where you can see History, Bookmarks Menu, and your other custom bookmarks folders, is that list empty?
If not, check Settings>Safari>Favorites and tap this to make sure it is pointed to Favorites and not some empty folder.
Oh no. The Favorites folder with the star icon is empty.
Sorry to say but they appear to be gone for good.
It wouldn't be the end of the world. I just can't figure out how I lost them.
Get help using iCloud Bookmarks and Reading List - Apple Support
That may be empty for the time due to toggling of the Safari switch in iCloud, but I cannot be certain. Are you seeing other saved bookmarks or does the entire Bookmarks section appear to be empty?
From the article above, "If you need to access a bookmark that you deleted within the last 30 days, you can recover it from iCloud.com. Just click Settings, and under Advanced, click Restore Bookmarks." - this doesn't mean you deleted them yourself, but if for some reason something else caused them to be deleted, I would give that a go.
All my other bookmarks and folders appear to be intact. I may have deleted my Favorites accidentally, but I'm not ruling out some software glitch when I updated at some point.
DennisFerri wrote:
It wouldn't be the end of the world. I just can't figure out how I lost them.
No way to know for sure. A theory.... Did you do the update OTA? With iTunes updates, iTunes downloads a completely new version of the latest iOS and then installs it on your phone. With OTA updates only the delta, the changed files are downloaded. There is a rather complex process to replace the files involving the creation of temp files and then renaming them. OTA updates work well nearly all the time but sometimes they do not. They are quicker than iTunes updates but I find iTunes more reliable.
I always update my ios right on my iPhone.
Today I noticed I now have an empty "Latest Headlines" folder in my Favorites page, where I've had no folders for months. I have no idea why this is happening.
How do I get my Favorites Safari icons back?