Safari 13.1 - Clear History does not clear cookies!

With Safari 13.1, when I choose Clear History : all history : clear history, and combine that with the Developer's menu : clear cache (option + command + E) — upon quitting and relaunching Safari, there are no cookies present in the Manage Website Data panel.

This will not be true if you have any open web page when performing the first paragraph — because the website will instantly reset its cookies when detecting they have been removed.

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One does not need to actually use the Develop menu, but it needs to be enabled in Safari Preferences : Advanced so that the keyboard shortcut option+command+E will work to clear the browser cache and cookies. This is not a bug, though it certainly is the result of poor application design.

Circa Safari 9, there was a single Reset menu item on the application menu that got everything done at once — without the need of the Develop menu. Apple continues its mission to remove functionality that works…

You can provide feedback to the Safari product team, but it is quite unlikely they will respond.

Thanks, but it does not make any difference.

The problem is also still present in Safari Technology Preview, Release 104 (Safari 13.2, WebKit 15610.1.8.3)

If you are experiencing this problem, please report it to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

The more people report it, the quicker it may get fixed.

No amount of fiddling overcomes this problem. It is definitely a bug which appeared with the Catalina 10.15.4 Supplementary Update and is still present in the latest Safari Technology Preview Release 105 (Safari 13.2, WebKit 15610.1.10).

If you are experiencing this problem, please report it to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

The more people report it, the quicker it may get fixed.

There is not an answer, (to include the supposed answer; A; APPLE RECOMMENDED at top of this page)

…. it just needs to be fixed without any other procedures from Apple Customers.

I have found I just and only need to keep doing the CLEAR ALL HISTORY until it says upon reviewing NO DATA.

ie: about two to three repeats.

Click MANAGE WEBSITE DATA (see picture)

*after, From the BlackAppleTopLeft, Safari>Clear History>Clear ‘All History’ has been performed 2 to 3 times.

Hoping This Helps. @AppleTechSupport; Please repair for security’s sake.

Thank you.

Similar problem noticed here.

After going Safari > Clear History > all history, when I return to a website, which requires a sign-in, I find i am still signed-in from the last session there.

When I check in Safari > Privacy > Manage Web Site Data, I find a mass of stuff from previous browsing sessions has not been cleared. After several attempts, this action will eventually clear all the old data. Something seriously wrong here!

As the 2nd article points out, they are capable of regenerating after deletion with files that go to many parts of the system.

Safari/Browsers – can’t delete cookies.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Evercookie.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

The myth of the dangerous cookie.     https://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dangerous-cookie/

Quit Safari.

In Finder go to Go menu and then Go to Folder.

Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Launch Safari again and check if all is ok.

If that doesn’t work, copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Then go to Safari/History and delete any entries for the related websites.

Test.

Most users will not be using the Develop menu so that is not going to help them.

My wife does not use the Develop menu and the same issue of not clearing the data is present in Safari on her Mac. With both Macs, no websites are open when clearing data.

This is just a bug in Safari which needs fixing PDQ.

It worked perfectly for a long time prior to Safari 13.1 – it's a new bug that just needs to be fixed. Normal users don't want to faff about with extra menu options, Clear History – all history is all that should be needed!

Apple is not restoring "used to work/previous" application behavior that has been obviously engineered out of the recent Safari functionality. The Preview application in OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) used to allow link annotation. On subsequent operating system releases, that link annotation capability was deliberately removed by Apple. That too, is not a bug, but rather a deliberate, yet inconvenient design omission.

The fact that Safari 13.1 does not have a single application menu Reset, that does everything, as it did several years ago, is Apple change reality, and a blight on functionality. It is not however, a bug, because Safari 13.1simply omits memory lane functionality.

Apple is not influenced by other browser capability to one click remove everything as noted in Firefox, which I also use.

Same thing is happening here. Manually clearing all cookies and clearing all history. Close browser; hello! we're all back and never were deleted. Rhetorical question: why isn't there a single button to do this?

Time to trash Safari. It's junk.