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For like two weeks now I'm facing a strange issue with Safari (Version 15.5 (17613.2.7.1.8)) on macOS (Monterey), which keeps "forgetting" all cookies, including log-in ones.

That is extremely annoying because it happens really often - maybe every hour? And with most sites nowadays you have to enter 2FA as well so if you're logged in to multiple sites you're working with for the whole day, I bet I'd have to spend at least an hour every day re-logging to every single one. I've been using Safari almost exclusively for years now and have all credentials stored in Keychain so switching to a different browser is an almost impossible task (I know I can have a look into Keychain for passwords but I'd prefer not to look into it multiple times a day).

I'm not aware of any changes to my system, other than uninstalling Java JDK 16.0.2 (I think that was the version...). The reason for uninstalling that was another weird issue - for some reason, whenever I clicked a button on any page, it "clicked" the back button and I got redirected back - this no longer happens after uninstalling Java. I definitely didn't install any browser extensions.

Any thoughts what might be causing that and how to fix it?

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  • Side note: Safari 15.5 can export passwords as a CSV file.
    – lhf
    Commented Jun 7, 2022 at 10:48
  • I have exactly the same problem (for almost half a year) but haven't found any solution yet
    – ProfFan
    Commented Sep 18, 2022 at 18:34
  • FWIW, I'm still seeing this problem on macOS 14.2.1.
    – Michael Haren
    Commented Jan 4 at 21:00

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Having the Safari developer tools enabled is known to sometimes cause this, unfortunately.

Unchecking "Show Develop menu in menu bar" in the Advanced tab of Safari settings seems to fix it.

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I switched to Safari Technology Preview a year or two ago to get around this issue, which has consistently worked, but a problematic preview release a couple weeks ago caused other problems and has renewed my quest for a better solution.

Given that it doesn't impact everyone with dev tools enabled, I wonder if there's some other contributing factor, like request overrides or something.

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  • I just deleted all my (deactivated) request overrides. It will be a delightful surprise if it manages to resolve the issue.
    – 2xj
    Commented Apr 30, 2023 at 23:47
  • It didn't. I now use Chrome when I need dev tools, and have them turned off in Safari. I stopped using Safari Technology Preview altogether.
    – 2xj
    Commented Sep 27, 2023 at 14:47
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What is your cookie sameSite option? Is it strict? I'm using Safari 15.2. When I quit Safari and reopen it. The cookie is gone because of the strict sameSite, it happened with the back where you left feature. But when you select the URL and press Enter, the cookie appeared. My guess is Safari cannot load Cookie with strict when it try to reload the previous session.

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