After each download, a gray icon of the Safari compass remains in the front of the screen, as you can see in the attached screenshot. The only solution I've found is to leave Safari and restart it. There's one new, fixed, icon for each download.
I'm running ersion 11.0 (13604.1.38.1.6) on High Sierra 10.13 Beta (17A362a)
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), 15-inch, Mid-2015 16 GB DDR 500GB
Yay - found a fix that worked!
Background:
In High Sierra, when you click to download a file, High Sierra creates an animation/visualization of the file (via a Safari icon) being download, in a very fast-moving "n" shape. Starting where you click, going to the top of the window and then back down to the "Download" folder in the Dock. If you DON'T have your "Download" folder in the dock, High Sierra cannot perform the animation and hence the Safari icon just gets "stuck" on the screen.
Fix:
In Finder, right click on "Downloads", then click "Add to Dock"
"Download" folder now added to the Dock
It's been driving me crazy since the release of High Sierra, hopefully, this "fix" works for you too.
Yes, this also did not work for me. I tried both enabling and disabling the hands-off feature, and that does not seem to matter. Any other ideas?
Thant's not working here iMac 2011
This didn't work on my MAC. 😟
So annoying!!!!!
Nothing works... grey icon after every download.
Is that some sort of action to do not use gmail? I'm a new MAC user (after 30 years in Microsoft).
Please fix it, Apple Engineers!
I am having this same issue. None of the "fixes" mentioned above have helped. This is my first Apple computer. Any advice on where else to look for help? Can I take it into an Apple store???
Thanks! worked on MacBook Air 2015
Mtshik, What worked exactly? Nothing's been working here. Even after the latest iOS update.
I stand corrected. It's not working. Sorry to have gotten hopes up.
The issue happens after a fresh reinstallation from scratch not migrating user or data
Why would I want to do that? Wrong troubleshooting step
So here is a question: why doesn’t Apple solve the problem by eliminating the animated download icon? Does anyone really need it?
Running 10.3.3 and the problem is here
Thanks for this. It also worked and hasn't come back since.
Hi, this did not work for me - I don't have handoff enabled on my devices.
DOES NOT WORK...DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME !!!!
Same here. Has been happening since High Sierra as everyone else has said. I've also noticed this happens when the file I download is from my e-mail. I use gmail.
I did the suggested remedy turning off Handoff on my iPhone and iMac and this has fixed the problem--admittedly it's a workaround.
I called Apple Support and they had no additional fixes and said they would mention it to the engineers as a potential bug fix with the next update.
After a download, a compass/safari icon remains on the screen
