Safari freeze when create a password in safari or reset a password

Ugh! Welcome to the club. I just had to sign in to post this and it took forever.

Incognito is not working for me anymore. It seemed to work for a day and then stopped.

I was thinking about going to 2 factor authentication. Any feedback from someone who tried that would be appreciated.

Same with me on my iPhone 11 Pro Max with latest iOS . I thought it was my phone so deleted all my website data and history but still didn’t fix it . When ever I have to register on a webpage I can input all details like name and address ok but when it gets to create a password it completely freezes for around 1 or 2 mins with no response at all and can’t even open another webpage . It does work after a while but happening this time of year is a nightmare as registering in loads of different sites to get Xmas presents . Please fix Apple

Been having multiple telephone conversations with Apple and have sent a screen video and two screen shots over and also some logs that are going off to the Apple engineers , waiting till Monday for another telephone update . Like i said it doesn’t happen under private browsing in safari or on chrome . My partner is on 14.2 and doesn’t have the problem on her iPhone though

Again, for those having this issue, check out the solution I gave there: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252433359

I spent months with this issue until finding this solution which worked perfectly.

And if it works for you, just report it for other people.

Same!!! Once I get to the point to create a password on a new site I’m joining or creating a profile for it just freezes!!! Has happened on Chrysler Financial, NYS DMV, Shoeshowmega and Sportztv within the matter of 24 hours after updating to 14.2.1 on my iPhone 12 pro max 512gb.... please fix this ASAP Apple! Now I have to get out of bed and go downstairs to get on my iMac at 130am. Not that I’m lazy but I should be able to do it right here on the best phone in the world right now. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hayley I think I’ve found a workaround for now!

settings > safari > auto fill if you uncheck use contact info then I can use websites that need passwords, it may work for you until apple soet a permanent fix!

Hi can you explain what you mean by wider issue sorry I’m not very technical in this I can only tell you what’s happened in my case and that was as soon as I updated to iOS 14.2 on iPad and phone the problem started

Private browsing does indeed get around this problem. Good call. Thanks for this. Although I would prefer to use the non private browser, this is a good interim fix. And, in fact, it is probably a good idea to start private browsing, anyway. I may just continue, even if an update fixes this problem.

I'm seeing this behaviour in Safari on both my iPhone on iOS 14.2 and MacBook Pro on macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. This is so frustrating. It's happened to me so many times now. Each time it happens I have to use Chrome to reenter all my info and add all the items back in my cart. This is ridiculous. I've tried turning off autofill entirely in Safari and it still doesn't work. HELP Apple. I'm really fed up.

Apple clearly haven’t tested Safari properly on iOS14. Apple need to issue a hot fix for this, before I unleash this story on my Facebook Group 120K members, and Tweet this repetitively.

Come on Apple, this is just careless...

Same. Trying to change FB and PayPal passwords on safari but screen just froze. Not a problem until update. Super frustrating. Have to close safari a couple of times to be able to make page disappear. Very annoying. Apple please fix this ASAP!!! Happening on both iPhone and iPad.

Very annoying, same problem on iPad. Think it was after latest update. Seems worse when trying to change, update and reset passwords but does occasionally when just browsing.

Doesn’t happen on Chrome.

Come on Apple, get it sorted.

Although when the “delete x” disappeared on google search a few months back on Safari it took ages to sort.

This is true for me. Private browsing prevents this problem, but I have heard that this is not the case for everyone. It probably depends on what model of iPhone/iPad, you have. I have an iPhone 8+ and iPad mini.

Apple really need to create a hot fix for this. The problem is that Apple do not check this forum. This kind of tells you how Apple feels about it’s customers. Apple know they have a captive audience, so there is very little motivation for them to fix this problem, quickly.

If this was a small start up, the fix would already have been issued.

I created a ticket with Apple regarding this issue. It is driving me nuts and tickets help get problems addresses. I encourage others to make tickets so dev team is aware of the coding issue.

no problems with any other browser on iPad. Only safari. All password entry causes extreme lag and sometimes browser crashing. No other action causes a problem. Likely some sort of memory leak issue when the browser looks for saved passwords.

In safari, go to bottom right what looks like two squares, that is to open a new web page. Once it opens, you will see private on the bottom left hand side. Choose that and your done. It worked for me.