Q: iOS 9 Safari clear history, save cookies

Have just found that clicking the clear button at the bottom of the Bookmsrks, History list offers the option of clearing Today, yesterday, or all and this doesn't clear the passwords.  A solution at last.  No sure if it was there before update to ios9.1

tthat's how it's been all along. It clears all cookies and everything.

All my logins and passwords are still there - so it's OK for me.

Still doesn't work for me...but maybe that's because I'm still on iOS 9.0.2.  I see you're on iOS 9.1.

Sorry, my mistake I'm on 9.0.2 and it works for me - strange it doesn't for you. 

People here don't seem to understand the problem we're brining up here so let me describe it again.

If you want to delete your browsing history, and browsing history only, you can no longer do this with iOS9.  Period.

If you go into Safari either in iOS9 or even on your desktop and go to clear history you are told "Cookies and Website data will be cleared..."

What this means is that if you are logged into any website, you will be immeditealy logged off as that Cookie is wiped out. 

This does NOT mean that you've lost the login/password information that you may have saved in your Keychain.  But because the Cookie was wiped out, you will have to log into each and every site that you visit.

Since the birth of the internet and Netscape Version 1.0, you have been able to delete browsing history, cookies, cache, etc SEPERATELY.  This is the way it has been for 20 years.  Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to eliminate the user's ability to decide what they want deleted.  Now you're only option is to wipe everything out - history, cache, cookies - the whole nine yards.

The question and point of this entire thread is to figure out WHY Apple did this and WHEN/IF they will ever revert back to the old way of doing things. 

You go into Chrome to delete history and you're given a bunch of checkboxes for what you want to delete and what you want to keep.

that's the issue at hand here.

rdstoll: Perfect.

I don't know where I found it (somewhere here at discussions.apple), but you do not need your Safari to stay in the 'private mode'.

Turn Private Browsing on or off on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

BTW in the latest Safari (iOS 9 and iPad) the two boxes are on the top right.

I am a brandnew user of any Apple device, and my Windows and Android devices don't have this behavior. It bugged me for days, so I did a search, and it looks like this solved my problem.

My Safari is never on private mode, so that shouldn't be the problem.

I believe that there is nothing we can do, just hope that they will fix this in iOS 9.0.3 or 9.1...

At the moment my workaround is never delete history.

Problem is still there on iOS 9.1, I can't believe it!

Updated to iOS 9.1 and it's still deleting cookies. Where do I report this to Apple?

xxlilspikeyxx, here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

Unreal how Apple believes in lack pf Choice..

its not just in this area.. It all over their products..

its Apple way or the Highway... arrogant and stubborn....

while giving a choice would make their products so much more use friendly and Flexible

it is absolutely mind boggling how  this decisions are made.

idiosyncratic and dogmatic....  apples punch line should not be " think outside of the box" they should change it to " take it or leave it "

its going ti hurt you in the long run Apple... Wake up .

The problem I'm having is after I clear my web history and then I visit "secure websites" like my banks or financial websites, I have to go through extra steps to reconfirm my identity this is a pain because some of the bills we pay are registered to another phone number and then we have to text the security codes back and forth this is ridiculous, clearing your web history should not delete the cookies.