Bookmark Favicons Reset After Cache Clear Or History Clear

In recent versions of Safari, "Clear History" is equivalent to familiar "Reset Safari" in older versions of Safari.

For details:

Clear History

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/ mac

Click the Safari menu in the Safari menu bar holding the option key down,

"Clear History... " menu option will change into "Clear History and Keep Website Data" option.

This will preserve some of the data.

Apple says Favicon (website icons)will turn into generic, once History is cleared.

When you visit these sites again, these icons will be added.

Bookmarks in the Favorites bar will not show any icon by default.

As per this article Bookmark your favorite webpages - Apple Support

Note: Safari uses iCloud to keep your bookmarks the same on all your Mac computers and iOS devices that have Safari turned on in iCloud preferences. With iCloud, your bookmarks and Reading List are archived automatically, and you can restore them from an earlier version at any time.

Clearing history and caches and bookmarks is totally different , when you click on history on the top menu bar > History > scroll down > again click on History click on clear all history and website data the past browsed history and website data ( that is in the form of cookies is deleted ) .And about caches if you use safari preferences > advanced and check the box of show develop in the menu bar , then take cursor on top menu bar , click on develop > again click on empty caches it will delete safari browser caches .

If you have deleted the bookmarks manually from the bookmarks side bar but that is not the case and they will be saved .

See if this helps.

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jenderle7 wrote:

So I assume there is no workaround for this?

That is correct. Until Safari is modified to preserve these website icons when a user clears caches/history,

we cannot do much. I have seen couple of sites retain favicons even after clearing caches.

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