Safari 15 keeps logging me out of several sites every week or so

I've increased "remove history items" to 1 month - no luck

I've disabled all extensions - no luck


Still there are some sites which keep me logged in, but google.com, youtube.com, facebook.com, ebay.com - they are all throwing me out every week.


Other browsers doesn't do that.

Safari 14 didn't do that.


Am I alone with this porblem?

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 11:32 AM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2022 1:31 PM

I may just be lucky, but after nearing a year of this problem I followed the first two steps in this post on the developer forums explaining how the user there fixed it by:

Resetting all experiments: Develop -> Experimental Features -> Reset all to defaults
Re-enabling Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> enable "Prevent cross site tracking" + enable "Allow privacy-preserving measurements of ad effectiveness" (I suspect this is the issue but not sure)

I initially had several sites log out once, but I haven't experienced any further unexpected logouts in over a week, even when using the console/inspector. I hope I didn't just jinx myself 🤞


I'm running Safari 16.1 on Ventura 13.0 and a 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7.

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Jan 24, 2022 11:57 AM in response to radozd

Running Safari 15.2 on latest Monterey (12.1) and seeing this issue pretty constantly.


When this happens to me it happens all at once, but not to every site I'm signed into.


For example, when it happens I always get signed out of: all google apps pages, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn. But at the same time, when it happens, I do NOT get signed out of Basecamp, or some other apps.


I thought at first there was some correlation with local web development I was doing, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I moved all local development to Firefox for a few weeks and the issue in Safari continues to occur.


Hoping this gets resolved in a release soon.


Jan 24, 2022 8:26 PM in response to radozd

I've got this problem too. It doesn't affect every site. It seems to be Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail (Google) for me. What's even weirder is this only seems to happen when I have my MacBook plugged into an external monitor and it seems to possibly occur when the device sleeps. There is definitely a correlation between having something plugged into the machine and logging out.

Feb 15, 2022 11:57 AM in response to ArtMooney

ArtMooney wrote:

• I'm wondering about the same thing, it's a really horrible and annoying bug. The two leads I have now on what causes it is:

when opening and using the web console, so I guess it mostly annoys developers.
• according to other users who do not have this problem, they are using x86 systems, so it seems to affect the M1 version only.

With these leads in mind it shouldn't be too hard to find right?

Have you submitted feedback to Apple?


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Mar 15, 2022 11:40 AM in response to Jason Heiser

I just upgraded to Safari 15.4 and pulled up the Web Inspector to look at a few web pages. Now I wait for the logout bomb to go off. I’ve never been able to pinpoint exactly when it happens or if there is a specific tool in the Web Inspector that sets it off. It always seems to be delayed a little, however.


Jen Simmons on Twitter replied and encouraged me to file an issue with a sysdiagnose attachment.


http://feedbackassistant.apple.com


Have any of you done that yet? I will do this as soon as the logout bomb detonates again.

Nov 17, 2022 4:26 PM in response to radozd

For others that are experiencing this issue -- can you confirm if the following steps reliably reproduce the issue for you?


  1. Open Safari and login to Gmail
  2. Open Safari Dev Tools (option + command + i)
  3. Reload the page (command + r)
    1. Result: you should still be logged in to Gmail at this point
  4. Open a new tab (command + t)
    1. Result: you should now mysteriously be logged out of your google account in the original tab

Nov 2, 2021 9:20 AM in response to radozd

I have the same issue, I had opened a Feedback ticket/radar, but then closed it a week later because the problem disappeared. Unfortunately it is back. It really happens on many website all at once. For some sites it seems to forget everything that was stored locally on the client. For example the AWS web console usually remembers my account number and the services I last used. But after this "forceful" logout, everything is gone. It is as if I have never logged in to AWS before. It drives me nuts.

Nov 3, 2021 1:48 PM in response to radozd

I'm still having this problem and I've restarted multiple times. I'm up to date with Safari and Monterey. It's really disrupting my work flow. I'm getting logged out of absolutely any website that requires a login session multiple times a day. This includes


  • All google sites
  • All Atlassian sites
  • Lucid chart
  • Amazon


Just to name a few of the common ones. This started immediately with the Safari 15 update. I have changed zero security or privacy settings from 14 -> 15.

Feb 2, 2022 1:15 AM in response to submarines_and

Same here, same issue. For me it happens immediately after opening the developer console / web crawler and as a developer this very frustrating. I've been forced to go back to chrome for certain parts of my web development now since I don't have time for these problems as soon as I need to monitor my data. But I would rather see that Apple fixed this like yesterday!

Feb 7, 2022 1:30 PM in response to radozd

Still happening in 12.2/Safari 15.3. And each time, I have to use my 2FA to login, and each time the website I log into then sends me an email announcing that I am logging in to the service "for the first time from a new device."


I will say that this is only happening for me on Apple silicon (MacBook Air M1) and not on my older Macbook Pro. It is unbelievably annoying and disruptive to actual work.

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