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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
After googling around, I found the answer for anyone still wondering: This icon indicates you have Apple's "Handoff" feature enabled — which opens the same browser window on your phone or other Mac device. This feature is enabled or disabled on Macs via System Prefs:
And apparently this is how you activate "Handoff" on an iOS device:
Various apps take advantage of this "handoff link" between Apple devices, so I think different icons display when you are using apps that sync to iCloud.
For details, here is the Apple Insider article I find which produced these graphics.
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 !!!!
After a download, a compass/safari icon remains on the screen
