I upgraded to Safari 13 today. After that, I happened to be trying to add a new Gmail account to my Mail app. The app prompted me to authentiate in Safari. But when I clicked "Open Safari", the only thing happened is... The Safari app opened. But no Google log-in page was opened. If I remember correctly, everything works fine under Safari 12. A Google log-in page will appear and let me log in.
This is the butten I clicked.
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
Apple has now released Safari 13.0.1 - which apparently fixes the issue. Hopefully one of these days Apple hires and/or properly funds a real QA department for their software.
No anti-virus programs or VPN running.
New admin account - problem persists.
Safe Mode - problem persists.
I think my problem is a duplicate of this post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250646338 you can check out their discussions, too.
That would be my understanding. The auth to Google should not be undone by a Safari update.
I should have been fine, except I added dual factor to my Google account which forced re-auth on all devices. Oh, the poor timing.
@rjkmadison,
I experienced the same problem, not with Gmail, which I don't use, but with Google Calendar. The problem occurred when or after I upgraded from macOS 10.13.6 to 10.14.6 over this past weekend. Everything was running fine in 10.13.6, Calendar was happily accessing my Google Calendar without clamoring for authorization ... and it was running Safari 13, albeit probably a version for High Sierra. After the upgrade of macOS I distinctly remember having to approve the update of Safari. I didn't notice until a day after updating Safari that I had a problem with Calendar accessing the Google calendar. I don't know whether that was the case immediately after 10.14.6 was installed, or whether the Safari update caused that. If the upgrade to 10.14.6 triggered the request to complete authentication, then I should have paid more attention and attempted to do so immediately. I guess I was just too focused on completing the upgrade, incl. any software updates, before deciding what the upgrade might have broken.
Hard to say which of the 188+ contributions describes the solution. The last entry simply echos a recommendation in this thread to reinstall Mojave from the App Store. One entry above that claims that setting Google Account | Security | Less secure app access to On somehow solves the problem. I tried that. Trying to use the Google Calendar account in any way on macOS 10.14.6 thereafter still offers the option of invoking Safari to complete the authentication, and clicking that button has the same effect as previously, i. e., no login page for Google appears in Safari.
Someone seems to have a solution over at Google support forum, here's the link for you folks to check it out.
Question: Suppose I do reinstall 10.14.6 , get Safari 12 in the bargain, then am able to complete authentication in Safari. Can I then install Safari 13 without having to complete the authentication in Safari again, this time, of course, unsuccessfully?
Same issue here. I have tried safe mode, etc and nothing seems to fix it
Yes very broken, we have it here too. Did not find a way to fix it yet...
moved up
I spent two hours with an Apple Level 2 Technician on the phone - this is currently unsolvable - I'll post when they get back to me with results.
Yep - having this problem. Major issue, my Gmail is work email - really bad that it no longer works with my app!
Back to gmail app then?
Hoping this gets taken seriously and is fixed asap
That helps for mail. I need my contacts and calendar to sync though.
Could you link directly to what you believe to be the solution? Each response has a 3-dot menu with a direct link option. Thanks.
From the link below, the proposed temporary solution is the conversation with blue highlight on left side.
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/14841442?msgid=14879645
Ah, thanks. That was suggested earlier in this thread, but only gets email. I need sync for calendar and contacts as well.
Is Gmail log-in broken under Safari 13?
