Safari version 13.0.4 enable cookies

Hello skip259,

Thanks for posting your question about Safari on your Mac. I understand you're running into some issues with an alert related to cookies.

To verify, which exact macOS version are you using under Apple menu () > About This Mac?

Have you seen similar alerts on any other websites?

To troubleshoot, I recommend booting your Mac into safe mode first. This runs a diagnostic/repair and prevents certain items from loading, and will help to rule out some software causes: Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac. After you boot into safe mode and test the issue, click Apple menu () > Restart to get back to normal.

Next, it may help to test in a newly-created administrator account. This will tell you if the issue is specific to your user account, or if it's system-wide: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac

Once you've tested both, reply back with the results. Take care!

Thanks for the Safari correction. :-). I quit Safari, restarted, and unchecked all three boxes in Privacy settings. Almost fell off my chair when it worked at my bank site.

Appreciate the clue/help!

It is very easy to install another browser. I know that Google Chrome will work with most websites. You can download the Chrome browser at Google.com. I do not recommend making Google Chrome your default browser as Safari is both faster, uses less resources and uses less memory and storage. But it is easy once installed to use the new browser. Once installed just choose Chrome from your Launchpad. As long as it is not your default browser just close it when you are not using it (do this by while in the browser choosing the Chrome Menu Choice in the upper left corner of the open Chrome Window and the bottom choice under that Chrome will be close Chrome.

You will have to manually enter your password for your banking website when you go to login the first time but after that if you let it Chrome will save the login info. If you don't feel comfortable sharing your encrypted Banking log-in information with Google Chrome, then you can just login manually when you need to access your bank's website.

I personally continue to check back regularly hoping Apple will correct this issue but until they do this is a relatively painless option.

Thanks dchatcher! Unchecking and checking the cross-site tracking worked for me.

I am using safari 13.0.5 and all is not well. I have to deselect website tracking and Apple Pay and Apple Card in safari preferences. Then I have to quit safari, log in again and select the two aforementioned boxes. Only then can I get into bill pay. And this whole thing must be repeated the next time I use bill pay. Does this give anyone a clue as to the cause of this problem?

I checked cross tracking on privacy and my bill pay worked.

skip259 Said:

"On Safari version 13.0.4, my bank's bill pay is saying that cookies are not enabled. Another device's safari is version 13.0.3 and there is no problem. I have the 'Block all Cookies' unchecked. Both devices 'Security' and 'Privacy' settings are the same. Is there a problem with the new version 13.0.4? Chrome works fine."

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And then...

Report this as a Bug in Safari to Apple:

The more Apple hears about this, the more their engineers and developers are aware of this, the more they will know what is going on and what they need to fix and how.

Go Here: Feedback - Safari - Apple

Select: "Bug Report" for the "Feedback Type"

What I ended up doing was upgrading from High Sierra to Mojave, which got me Safari 12.1.2 which absolutely does not have the problem and works fine. So I upgraded to downgrade, as it were.

Unfortunately, upgrading to Mojave re-formatted my internal SSD to APFS format so now when I use an external HDD to boot in 10.9 (which I need for my old Logic Pro), I can't access the internal SSD. I realize that most people won't have this sort of configuration so it won't be a problem, but I'm mentioning it in case you decide to take the upgrade path as I did.

I did find some instructions on the MacInTouch.com web site that described how to use the Pacifist application to extract just the Safari components from the MacOS installer. There weren't any specific instructions on reverting from Safari 13.0.4 and it sounded like a misstep could leave you with a real mess so I did not try that approach (as others have mentioned, you cannot just restore the Safari app but there are Webkit components as well and who knows what else).

Did you try the Safari Technology Preview that I mentioned in my other post? It seems to work fine on the sites that I was having a problem with when using Safari 13.0.4.

Not sure why you say you can't go to Chrome on your iMac? I certainly understand why you would not want to as it is slower, more resource intensive and requires more storage than Safari. I am currently using it to get to those websites that no longer work in Safari, but keeping Safari as my Default Browser. Since you have access to the sites you need on your iPad and iPhone XR this may not be something you want to do. But for me, I prefer to Browse Important Sites on my Mac so I bit the bullet and temporarily installed Chrome until Apple fixes Safari.

It is a pain in the backside and Apple needs to fix this ASAP. I am sure their argument will be these sites use non-standardized design, use Flash, are insecure or some other crap, but if they are that bad why do they still work on my iPad Pro, my iPhone on Safari and on my Mac using Chrome? Don't make excuses Apple just fix it.

Same issue on Catalina...

It's clearly a browser issue - I switch out to FireFox or Chrome and all is good.

Why does Apple break the easy stuff and not fix it...

I've never had any issues until this mess started.

YIKES!

I 'chatted' with Apple support and they were extremely helpful and assisted me in getting Google Chrome loaded which now lets me bank as before.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

If you want to, you can send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

Safari Feedback

Well, I spoke too soon. It worked that one time (see my reply above) and then not again. I spoke to my bank about it and he said they received complaints concerning bill pay and Safari. He suggested using GoogleChrome. But another person on this thread did not think much of that idea. So it is back to square one.

Yeah I know but I have been scouring the internet since 13.0.4 came out and could not find any info about the bug or the plan to release 13.0.5. I even called Apple and they just suggested downgrading my OS version. Was this bug or 13.0.5 release information available anywhere?