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Disable 10.14.4 Safari auto-submit of login forms

One of the new "features" in the latest Safari update is that it auto-submits login forms after populating your passwords for you. While good in theory, it's a disaster for me. I use a few sites that have Captchas on them and when i click on my username, the password populates and Safari submits the form before I have completed the captcha causing a login failure.


Is there a way to disable this feature? I have dug through the settings and can't seem to find the option. I've already been locked out of one account and I'm scared to login to my school website for fear of getting locked out of that too!


Thanks

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 31, 2019 10:45 PM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2019 7:41 AM

This is 100% a new bug/feature in 10.4.4. It's not an issue with how websites implemented password entries. It's an issue with how Safari now implements auto filling passwords on sites. This is not a site issue. It's an Apple Safari issue.

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Apr 1, 2019 11:45 AM in response to jasonlot

I think you/we have to accept the facts, there’s a current problem with entering passwords for certain sites, all the moaning and finger pointing will not alter that. The original post was what can be done to avoid having this issue lock the sites, I’ve given my thoughts and a possible work around, may be you can offer an alternative, if not it’s not worth continuing this discussion.

Apr 4, 2019 6:19 AM in response to whiteatom

That advice was really directed at trogalewski, the more people that send requests via Feedback to include a function or resolve an issue the more likely it will get noticed by Apple, there is certainly no guarantee they will see it in the forum.


With respect to useful response, you can only post on what’s possible under the circumstances, if no off button exists at the moment for this issue then work arounds are the only current alternative, no matter how much that is disliked by some.

Apr 4, 2019 7:13 AM in response to whiteatom

OMG. C'mon Apple. I have an office full of people that are hosed this morning after the update yesterday. Please create advanced option to disable submit immediately. Multiple failed logins appear as hacks and get IP addresses blacklisted. This is terrible. Turning off autofill altogether is terrible as well. So we move to Chrome or Firefox until you get it together? Grrrr. Thanks for deciding what i am doing all day today. I swear I am going to go back to turning updates off and doing them six months later again.

Apr 9, 2019 12:46 PM in response to whiteatom

Best part of this feature is that it fails on apples discussion login.

Apple really does need to provide options for the disabling of these features that add. I do not care to save a fraction of as second on some websites to waste minutes on websites that it fails on. Or when the feature causes me to get locked out of websites.


Please provide feedback to apple at apple feedback I am tired of this nonsense and I bet if your reading this you are too.

Apr 23, 2019 2:36 AM in response to whiteatom

This is the dumbest feature I can imagine! It is really ANNOYING.


It is also extremely DANGEROUS with phishing sites and this feature will without doubt increase the amount of accounts that are stolen! STUPID FEATURE!!!!!!


There is no option to "think twice" anymore, a lot of people will automatically select their login on a phishing site believing that they still have the option to investigate and change their mind before clicking login. But now? No, you can't change your mind, you just lost your account and you can thank Apple for this recklessness.

Apr 26, 2019 5:16 AM in response to whiteatom

I am having the exact same problem! Thank god I'm not the only weirdo who thinks apple's new move is so stupid.


Apple, sidenote, you started out from a company I really used to love. You did things right. Now, you're like going back and un-doing everything you ever did right.


Headphone jack - dead

Touch ID - dead

Auto-login not being a thing


C'mon apple. Seriously, I left Windows cause windows 8 sucked. Please don't pull a microsoft on me cause I will have to switch back, and I truly don't want to.

May 1, 2019 4:46 AM in response to YashOnApple

Yes, this will of course work. The problem is that when you load the page, the account info auto-fill menu opens on page load and it's instinct the just click your account. On the page I'm having the particular issue with the captcha is behind that drop down (I have several accounts to this site), so I have to awkwardly click off the menu, fill the captcah and then start typing my username to re-trigger the account auto-fill menu. This is not an ideal solution.

Jun 1, 2019 9:14 AM in response to whiteatom

I am finding that I have to open about 1/5 of my frequently-used websites in Chrome because of this bug. https://boards.greenhouse.io throws a popup asking for your LInkedIn credentials and Safari puts something in there and submits it before I even know what it inserted -- but I CAN tell you that the authentication fails and the only workaround is Chrome or Firefox.

Jun 14, 2019 7:44 PM in response to whiteatom

I just updated my work computer to the latest version and encountered this lovely feature. It is making my life miserable! I spoke with apple support and directed them to this thread. The senior advisor that helped me seemed to agree with this being a major issue. I forwarded the thread to the feedback page. She said she would pass it up along her channels. Hopefully they realized that they screwed up royally with this "enhancement".

Disable 10.14.4 Safari auto-submit of login forms

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