How do I disable bookmark previews in the sidebar in Safari for MacOS?

To get the "old" view back of your bookmarks click on the three dots and check "Compact and uncheck "Show Folders on Top".

However, unfortunately, when saving new bookmarks a category "Recently Saved" with big a** icons appears above the bookmarks which in no way can be hidden (not yet anyway).

Let's pray that Apple fix this in macOS 26.0.1

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Safari 26.0.1 with MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1 definitely does not have 3 dots and nowhere in view/settings I can find to change this behaviour. New bookmarks are also dropped on top of previous bookmarks and nowhere to change that behaviour either. Safari now unusable for me as I can't find anything through all this mess. And can't get the old version back as it does not appear on Time Machine before the update date.

I just installed the MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1 update and, yeah, there's no three dots in Safari, so there doesn't seem to be any way to disable the Favorites previews. With 250+ bookmarks -- all named to be descriptive -- seeing only 8 favorites rather than 20-25 at a time makes Safari incredibly difficult to use.

It sounds like MacOS Tahoe adds the option to compact things (hide the previews), but until my employer confirms that all of the corporate apps I use are compatible with Tahoe, I'm stuck with a really annoying Safari.

**SIGH**

This makes my system impossible. With something so fundamental, you need to be warned. Can you step back with Time Machine to the settings before the update?

IOS 15.7 Sequoia does not have the ability to switch from large to compact for the bookmarks. Its taking up a lot more memory to load which can be problematic for some users Apple please address this issue.

Sorry, that's only for Tahoe. 15.7 with Safari 26 doesn't have them and you cannot modify sidebar layout unfortunately. I went back from macOS Tahoe (They'd better named it iOS Tahoe) to Sequoia yesterday because the extreme buggyness and iOS interface drove me nuts. Please wait to upgrade until 26.3 I guess or better skip all together and see what Cupertino brings for macOS 27.

I just downloaded the update ... wish I hadn't this large bookmark icon/preview in the sidebar is killing me. I can no longer use it. I want my list back. No three dots to compact. It's not productive to have to scroll through the icons and is the preview eating up data? Ridiculous!

Also has anyone tried saving a bookmark, you can't drag the URL into the list, you have to drag it directly onto a folder, and you have no control over where in the folder to add the item.

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Well as they have changed it in macOS Tahoe 26 I don't suppose they will see any point in spending time on backwards compatability now? I must admit that having installed Tahoe 26 I like everything about it, including the clear pared back Safari bookmarks (but excluding the irritating 'recently saved' icons at the top!)

Well, I was in the same boat but I would recommend that if you can possibly upgrade to OS Tahoe 26 then the bookmarks menu does work properly again, and I would even say that for me I now do class it as an improvement.

I haven't got those 3 dots....just got the large icons and nothing above them. How do I find them please?

I just have icons and nothing above them. Where are the proverbial '...'

Platform is Mac-mini (late 2018 Intel) macOS 15.7 with Safari 26.0.1 (20622.1.22.118.4)

same for me, no 3 dots, no obvious option to disable under safari 'View' or 'Bookmarks' menu

it's rendered my bookmarks unusable, wish i'd never upgraded ☹️