Safari keeps logging me out...

I have found this solution, had this problem before upgrading to 10.9 on both my macbook pro and imac. After the update didn't have the problem on macbook pro however it presisted on the imac. I did the following and worked so far:

Safari => Preferences => Passwords => Remove All

Safari => Preferences => Privacy => Remove All Website Dara

Hope it works!

Thanks for your suggestion, I tried that before posting it and it didn't work.

It seems to be a safary/facebook - skype issue, if I don't launch skype there is no problem, since skype is oppened facebook starts to logout...

Thanks anyway

I've been experiencing this for a couple of days now as well. I'm getting logged out of everything basically after a few minutes.

I've tried deleting all website data, passwords and all application data I can find, but I'm still experiencing the problem.

It's starting to sound like a session cookie problem like someone mentioned before. I'm wondering if I should just remove safari and try to reinstall it..

(I'm on OSX Mavericks and Safari 7)

So deleting safari by going to the terminal and doing rm -fr /Applications/Safari.app and then reinstalling Safari by downloading and installing Mavericks again from the app store has fixed the problem.

**** you Apple for not providing a separate Safari 7 installer.

I've found a solution! Don't use Safari, or any other Apple software. Although it may look nice, they rarely work correctly. Safari, Pages, Keynote, Numbers - none of them work correctly on my 2012 iMac or 2012 MacBook Pro. It's a shame because up until this year I never experienced any problems with my Apple products. Unfortunately, I think they're just starting to lose their way.

Something that oddly worked for me was that I posted to my Twitter account via Notification Centre. As soon as I did that, Twitter began allowing me to stay logged in for more than 10 seconds. Not sure if it's a perminant fix, but worth a try.

OK... so 3rd time lucky. This is how I fixed this problem on OSX Mavericks and Safari 7.

My problem was a cookie problem. Something was corrupted with how safari was keeping cookies.

I would have thought that "Reset Safari..." from the Safari menu, or going into preferences-> privacy and "delete all website data" would have fixed my logging out problem but it didn't.

I finally discovered that Safari cookies are stored in these locations:

~/Library/WebKit/LocalStorage/

~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage/

~/Library/Cookies

I quit safari and then deleted all the filed in the above directories, and now finally safari seems to be behaving itself normally and I've been looged into all websites for a couple of hours now without being logged out.

Thanks Philbert123.

That fixed the problem for me. Safari was logging me out of all websites after a few minutes and not remembering settings but removing all the cookie files and reseting safari finally fixed it.

Wolfsta

thanks all for sharing on this thread. my mb pro (late 2011) runs on mavericks + safari 7. i couldn't locate any of the mentioned directories for cookie clean up, but resetting safari seems to have done the trick by itself. nice and simple.

This worked for me, except that I didn't have a ~/Library/WebKit/LocalStorage folder. Thanks for your help! 🙂

For anyone constantly getting logged out of websites on their iPad, check whether you are using private browsing. I somehow accidentally turned that on and began getting logged out of sites. Once I discovered this and turned off the private browsing, I no longer had the problem.

I've deleted even more Safari related files, but still getting the logout problem.

Here's a list of files I deleted:

~/Library/Cookies

~/Library/WebKit

~/Library/Safari

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari

~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.Extensions.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState

I noticed this problem since Safari 7.0.x (maybe 7.0.3, can't remember the exact version), and tried reset and delete related files with every Safari update.

Now it's Safari 8 on Yosemite, the problem still exists.

Where do I find those files? I'm now having the logout issue.

Have you found a solution?

Hello there,

I also had this problem, every 5 minutes sometimes less with no activity, Safari log me out of Facebook, so I already fixed, HOW? well, I go to my Facebook settings, then applications, and REMOVE Skype app.

I don't know why, Chrome works excellent with Skype app but no Safari, so just delete Skype App from Facebook apps.

Hope it works for you

I have an Macbook Pro Retina Display with OS X Yosemite with the last update.

CarlosAragon wrote:

Hello there,

I also had this problem, every 5 minutes sometimes less with no activity, Safari log me out of Facebook, so I already fixed, HOW? well, I go to my Facebook settings, then applications, and REMOVE Skype app.

I don't know why, Chrome works excellent with Skype app but no Safari, so just delete Skype App from Facebook apps.

Hope it works for you

I have an Macbook Pro Retina Display with OS X Yosemite with the last update.

I ended up called support. There was an issue with my Keychain. It wasn't remembering my passwords.