Stop "Sign in with Google" pop-ups

Leo Bloom wrote:

It's not just safari, I use firefox and don't have a google account, nor do I search with google. It's something that I suspect only the websites themselves can control. I doubt anyone in this forum would know, but I suspect PC Window users have it too.

You are spot on. It's a "service" that lots of websites offer. As it has lots of benefits to them (there is probably some information sharing with Alphabet, customers more likely to sign in because they don't have to set up a new account) that I suspect it's unlikely to change.

All I can recommend to people is that they complain to the particular website. But, I'm not really sure how much good that will do.

I forgot to mention the other change I made was going into the Safari-Websites-Downloads

"allow downloads on websites with setting below"

Click DENY on the Google tab

As I scrolled down, I found Google was in this list more than once, so I had to switch the tab from ASK to DENY on more than one Google tab.

Make sure you find them all!

Good luck!

Hi VivaMerida,

Great job following those steps. Since Google's steps did not resolve the issue, the next step is to contact them for help. Google Help

In the meantime, try using Private Browsing Mode with Safari. This should hopefully stop those pop-ups. Check it out here: Browse privately in Safari on iPhone

Visit sites privately

You can use Private Browsing Mode to open private tabs, which don’t appear in History on iPhone or in the list of tabs on your other devices.

1. Tap .

2. Tap  in the center of the tab bar at the bottom of the screen, then tap Private.

Tabs in the Private Tab Group aren’t shared with your other Apple devices, even if you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.

You can easily confirm that you’re in Private Browsing Mode by checking that the search field bar is gray or displays the word Private.

To hide the sites and exit Private Browsing Mode, tap , then tap  to open a different Tab Group from the menu at the bottom of your screen. The private sites reappear the next time you use Private Browsing Mode.

To close private tabs, tap , then swipe left on each of the tabs you want to close.

Take care!

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Yelling at Google is, of course, like yelling at the ocean.

Arguably, Google doesn't have anything to do with it. All they do is provide the programming API:

https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/reference/html-reference

... just like Apple does:

Sign in with Apple | Apple Developer Documentation

... or FB for that matter.

The website developer can choose to implement those APIs, or not.

Strange, how no one seems to complain about "Sign in with Apple". So why do people complain so loudly about Google? Hmm....

(Yes that was a rhetorical question)

But, unless people simply refuse to participate and tell the websites why, it's unlikely the websites will stop using the feature.

👍

michael1040 wrote:

I followed these instructions a few months ago and just rechecked settings. They had no impact. I'm still stalked by Google sign-in pop-ins.

As long as websites choose to use Google's login services, you will see them. You have no control over that.

Apple, help!

Apple isn't here. And, even if they were, they have no control over third-party websites.

After changing the Search Engine and turning off Search Engine Suggestions I had also cleared the history and website data and the popup has stopped on my iPhone.

Well I tried all that and still nothing. I am cursed for life it seems. I switched to Duck Duck Go to flee the google update your settings pop up and now this new google junk has taken its place. So freaking irritating.

I don’t even have a Google account or gmail and that nasty pop up comes up on all my Apple devices now. Tried all the suggestions above and more to no avail! Surely Safari could protect against this Google intrusion?

Same issue I have had recently; Quite annoying! So, I went to Settings and changed the default search engine to DuckDuckGo 🦆

Never a Goggle fan and this experience has prompted me to move away from using their Search. Now Safari with DDGo as search engine and along with Msft Edge and Bing ChatGPT, there’s no need for relying on google.

MissNikita73 wrote:

What I don't understand is why Google thinks we want to sign in to every single website we go to.

It's not Google who's asking you to sign in. The individual websites have bought a service from Google that allows them to offload the sign up/sign in process.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

It's not Google who's asking you to sign in. The individual websites have bought a service from Google that allows them to offload the sign up/sign in process.

And in the process allow google to track all of the sites you visit.

From what I’ve read, you can use a Safari plugin extension, however those that work are apparently paid. There is LuLu firewall, but requires you to connect and always be tweaking an always changing list of IPs. We really need an Apple solution here.

As the Google sign-in prompt is generated by the website, there really isn’t anything that Apple can do about it. And, even if they could, as Google and Apple are competitors, Google or various governments could charge Apple with anti-trust violations for blocking access to a competitor.

While Google and Apple are competitors, they are also partners (ie. the amount Apple receives to keep Google as default search engine.)

Agree that website developers are in part responsible for this terrible distraction, there ARE steps Apple could do to counter the distraction, just like annoying advertisements - which are also placed on websites by developers yet Apple provides read mode, other developers offer services and features to minimize add distraction. Apple could EASILY set up a preference option for users to essentially hide or suppress Google authenticate panel.