Disable 10.14.4 Safari auto-submit of login forms

Just to be clear: the issue is NOT with the auto-filling of credentials. That is nice and well implemented.

The issue is that of Safari automatically CLICKING the "login" button or equivalent. It means that, should the password have expired, I get NO CHANCE to replace the automatically filled password with the new valid one, since Safari already sent the old one!

This is a real pain for sites that limit the number of incorrect passwords, and lock your account out for a variable period.

Albert

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You are right! This "feature" (or "bug") has been removed (or fixed) into the last version of Safari Technology Preview, which means that Safari 13 will no longer "offer" the auto-submit login forms "feature".

agodfrin wrote:

...It means that, should the password have expired, I get NO CHANCE to replace the automatically filled password with the new valid one, since Safari already sent the old one...

FWIW you can edit passwords without opening the particular web site in question and waiting for it to through up an error, just open Safari Preferences and go to the Passwords tab. Search for the particular site and then edit the password associated with it, then next time you visited that site Autofill will use the new password.

https://blog.macsales.com/45760-a-guide-to-new-features-in-the-macos-mojave-safari-browser/

I accept some consider this shouldn’t be necessary but I will not go into that aspect, suffice to say you can get around the issue of Safari continually using and hence forwarding a wrong password.

You can also edit passwords and website login data from Keychain Access, but I don’t think Apple would like users to go that way when Safari Preferences offers a more friendly option.

Hope this is of some help until Apple decide to correct the issue.

This "enhancement" causes problems on multiple websites. In addition to the CAPTCHA issue, if one uses a website where the password changes every login (eg. secure setups with a token to give a unique password per occasion), it means you can no longer store the login name, then enter the unique password. It now means a manual entry of the login every time, in addition to the password. There needs to be a function to either prevent autosubmit by site, or the ability to switch it off whilst still allowing autocomplete then manual submission of the login and password.

Previously Mac "Just worked" - I'm finding this increasingly not to be the case. You guys need to get back to basics, and think and test your "enhancements" in detail prior to rolling them out.

Please listen to your customers Apple, this is not a helpful feature, it's not something that "we'll all get used to" we do not want you making every decision for us.

Apple users are highly educated, capable people, as several other posters have noted we're perfectly capable of pressing return ourselves.

You should try being a freelance cloud support agent like me, I have lots of customers google account details stored but apple seems to have taken the liberty of deciding that I'll want to automatically log in with the first one in the list and press return for me too.

ERM NO, I want to be able to choose which Google account I log into.

Maybe the answer will be to stop using Safari and make my own decision to use Google Chrome instead.

Maybe this will be the slippery slope back to Windows.......

They should include a flag to enable/disable autosubmit.

Autosubmit doesn't work for A LOT of sites!

I don't want Safari hit ENTER, I want to do that.

My workaround at the moment is switching to Chrome.

I also send a feedback as bug report, because I can't consider this behavior a feature, it is a bug, no doubt.

Hi Odepia, Just wondering on how you know this? Safari 13 will have this feature removed (auto-submit login). Will this be in macOS Mojave 10.14.6 update or macOS Catalina 10.15 update? Can you let me know!Dance33

This feature is annoying like everyone has already said. But I found a work-around for SOME sites.

First, customize your toolbar and add the autofill button. Use this button rather than clicking the pop-up box for autofilling passwords.

It doesn't work for every site for some reason, but might be worth a try. If it doesn't work go back to manual entry.

I'd like to know this too, a number of websites I have to log in to have multiple log-in options after entering username/password, but the autosubmit totally screws with that behavior. With this one little change they just made Safari worthless.

You will need to submit that request direct to Apple, try using the Feedback form.

Product Feedback - Apple

You can turn off the password feature in Safari in the Safari/Password/Advanced preference pane by unchecking this checkbox.:

Or, you can use LastPass as I do. Works fine with captcha

Please Apple - do the enable/disable option i Safari preferences, because of trouble with captcha sites!!

I already send via feedback. thanks for help.