Certain website data sites can not be removed. Even after a reset they still remain. This only happened after updating to 10.3.
iPad Air 2 WiFi, Cellular, iOS 10.3
I found a solution and I originally posted it at Cookies won't delete on iOS. I found this thread has a lot of reviews and I will repost here.
I tested on both ios 11.1 beta 3 on my iphone 8 and 11.0.3 on my ipad.
I have this problem since ios 10 on iphone 5s. After I bought an iphone 8 recently and used the backup from the iphone 5s to restore, the "persistent" cookies migrated to the new device. I also bought an iPad Pro and used the backup from the phone to set it up, the "persistent" cookies migrated to the ipad as well.
All the operations and software are under windows. What you need to do is:
Step 1: Use iTunes or a third party software to make a backup of your device.
Step 2: Use a third party software (I used iMazing because it is the one I found that can edit the backup. This is not supposed to be an advertisement.) to edit the backup. To do this you first need to select the backup you made and click the edit button. Then you need to remove all the files in the editable backup under "File System/Apps/AppDomain-com.apple.mobilesafari/Library/WebKit/WebsiteData/WebSQL/ ". You will be able to see all the cookies that you can not delete at this location. I this the absolute path in the actual file system is /var/mobile/Application/com.apple.mobilesafari/Library/WebKit/WebsiteData/WebSQ L/.
Step 3: Usw iTunes or a third party software to restore the backup.
Note: The backup should not be encrypted.
The solution is quite technical, and I hope apple devs can fix this problem soon.
Interestingly Apple isn't even commenting about this. Not impressed in the least
Be that as it may. Do you know of ANY comments they have made about it ?🤔
Wins5 wrote:
Be that as it may. Do you know of ANY comments they have made about it ?
No. It's a non-issue for me so outside of the forums, I haven't paid any attention.
Simple, just press the big round home button once
This works! Thanks much.
The process converts the 0 kb reference to something non-empty, and the delete completes.
Cool..,
I had the same issue with iOS 10.3.1.
I noticed there was an update on my phone today for ios10.3.2. I installed the update and the stubborn website data was gone.
Yes it does when you install 10.3.2 , but you can't when they or others come back, only on the install
I like your solution, If you can't fix it, delet it. Their loss
FYI i'm still leaving safari active since some apps seem to integrate better but just like on my Mac I use Firefox as the go to browser
Cheers
I have followed your instructions repeatedly to the word and it does not work!
👍👏
Pathetic is right, seem like 0 to no effort being put into this. Apple is lagging in a lot of technology lately on basic applications. Not impressed, with the prices we pay
Thnx dude, it worked!
SO, why haven't they resolved this yet ... I have eBay, homedepot, liquid plumber ... there is now way for me to delete them on my iMac, iPad and iPhone ...
So Apple ... *** ...
Go back to the website that won’t delete.
Click around site. The close browser. Back to advanced
Clear all cookies. I worked for me. Try it.
Why can't I delete website data in iOS 10.3?
