A small, but useful improvement to iOS 12 and macOS Mojave is the support for favicons in Safari. These little icons make your browsing experience more enjoyable and can be used in the latest test versions of Apple’s software. This is how.
Favicons in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave
Favicons have been in browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox for quite some time, but they cannot (yet) be found in Safari. These are the small icons that appear at each open tab, to indicate in a visual way which tab it is exactly. Sounds unimportant, but for people who always have a lot of different tabs open at the same time in Safari, it’s a really handy way to tell them apart.
From iOS 12 it is possible to use favicons in Safari. They are disabled by default, but you can activate them via a number of steps.
- Open the Settings app on the device where you have iOS 12 installed;
- Choose ‘Safari’;
- Then make sure that the switch behind ‘Show symbols in tabs’ is green.
macOS Mojave
You can also enable the favicons for Safari in the new macOS Mojave. You can find the option elsewhere, but it’s done like this:
- Open System Preferences on your Mac or simply launch Safari;
- Choose ‘Preferences> Tabs’ and make sure that ‘Show symbols of websites in tabs’ is turned on.
Tip: if you don’t have iOS 12 yet, you can also use the favicons in Safari in another way. Download and install for this Safari Technology Preview, a developer version of the web browser. It also works with older versions, such as macOS High Sierra.
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