There appears to be no way to remove these Recently Saved bookmarks from the Safari sidebar in the latest MacOS Tahoe. Worse still, the preview bookmarks appear as large image icons (see attached image), which are also impossible to remove. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0
I figured it out. The "Recently Saved" section lists sites in your "Reading List". Go to View -> Show Reading List Sidebar. There you can delete items. When all have been deleted, the Recently Saved section is gone.
I didn't even know I had added items to a reading list. But, they're gone now and I'm happier.
I figured it out. The "Recently Saved" section lists sites in your "Reading List". Go to View -> Show Reading List Sidebar. There you can delete items. When all have been deleted, the Recently Saved section is gone.
I didn't even know I had added items to a reading list. But, they're gone now and I'm happier.
Go up to the "Saved Bookmarks" and right click and and then click delete each individual one, you may have to refresh your screen or close it out afterwords but the "saved bookmarks" will be gone when you re-open it. Hope this helps you out
That is not quite correct. The huge "recently saved" icons at the top of the bookmarks bars are both recently saved bookmarks & recently saved reading list items. If you recently save a bookmark it will also save here.
As far as I can see there is no way to remove this feature - yet.
sxbsxb - I may have responded too soon. I just saved a new bookmark and now can't delete it from the Reading List. It's crazy that Apple automatically shows Recent Saved bookmarks with large icons, with no way to disable this.
When I show the Reading List Sidebar, it is empty, so that can't be the answer. I hope Apple fixes this. I just want to have my Favorites shown in the sidebar. They keep trying to make that more difficult for some reason. I assume they are trying to force us to use tabs or it has to do with the melding of iOS and MacOS
Same here. Also, the bookmarks are not recent -- some I haven't been to for years -- and more newly created bookmarks are not in this unwanted list.
That does not work for the new "Recently Saved" items that appeared in macOS Tahoe. CTRL-click does nothing on those icons.
Of course, that's how one deletes bookmarks from the normal listings.
Thank you sxbsxb - it worked! You are you are brilliant. I hope Apple makes this simpler to do. Because it is not intuitive to link the Reading list to Recently Saved bookmarks.
How do I permanently remove Recently Saved bookmarks from the Safari sidebar in MacOS Tahoe?
