Why can't I delete website data in iOS 10.3?

I don’t think they can fix this bug because they added a new feature that the advertisers don’t like. It’s called “Prevent Cross-Site Tracking.” And it’s turned on by default.

Thanks for the detailed solution. How sad that apple expects us to go thru such gymnastics to make the increasingly futile attempt to defend what's left of our privacy. And to think apple pretends to support customer privacy! One brief look at the apple app store reveals shockingly low quality standards that reinforce the growing perception that either apple doesn't care or the folks in charge aren't bright enough to understand how quality and customer trust might matter. I agree with others that it's time to switch to a non safari-based browser if one exists. Actually I think it could be time for me to abandon ios and apple in the same way that apple has abandoned its customers. What do I mean? Take a look at itunes. Take a look at the Music app now. Some of you might remember what great apps these used to be. Incredible how stupid people can take charge of ruining things!

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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Your opinion stating it is not a security threat, does not change the fact that it is one. It is a function of the browser to allow you to clear website data. It does not allow you to clear website data, therefore it is allowing unwanted tracking, that is a security threat. If you are not concerned with this issue, why do you continue to follow this thread and dispute anyone's post who has a different opinion than you?

Perhaps cookies become threats when they become exploits?

As we all know only too well from recent disclosures of 0 days exploits, numerous hacking conventions & the international press coverage of cookies as potential vectors for hackers, & unscrupulous governments/industry I'd rather Apple erred on consumer protection by providing real time prevention of cookie access to the browser in settings beyond the archaic choices they currently provide.

I think most cookies are associated with bookmarked sites whereby they are activated whenever the browser is opened.

As Safari settings default to open browser in public mode, any site bookmarked that provides cookie utility, whether benign or intrusive, will thus automatically generate its ID in the browser.

Personally, as an Apple user since '82, I find Apple's refusal to rectify the issue of persistent cookies rather androidical given the price.......

This is very long time Safari had been sold out you system to commercial website to restore data to tracking your online shopping if who paid for Apple and how long in contract, you could waiting for time end if you lucky will wipe out may be some. I had been this for long time and now I am not use safari for long time just today update i was tried but more problem on data store on my system but the site I am not go there for a long time and now appear data in the list????? even some website out of country pop up US commercial in Safari but when I open the same website in Chrome I never get that never like any Apple announcement like stop pop up and bla..bla.., believe me stop use safari use chrome.

Longsafe wrote:

This is very long time Safari had been sold out you system to commercial website to restore data to tracking your online shopping if who paid for Apple and how long in contract, you could waiting for time end if you lucky will wipe out may be some.

How do you reconcile your statement with this?

Daring Fireball: Advertising Trade Groups Object to Safari's New Intelligent Tracking Protection

and this?

http://www.adweek.com/digital/every-major-advertising-group-is-blasting-apple-fo r-blocking-cookies-in-the-safari-browser…

This is not a joke...I currently have 4 websites which can’t be deleted,2 I can’t recall ever visiting,one of these belongs to a dating website as a result of not being able to clear all website data I would like to thank Apple on me becoming a Sunday McDonald’s dad as the wife thinks I’ve been on a dating site!! Apple privacy joke!!!!!

Doesapplecareprivacy wrote:

This is not a joke...I currently have 4 websites which can’t be deleted,2 I can’t recall ever visiting,one of these belongs to a dating website as a result of not being able to clear all website data I would like to thank Apple on me becoming a Sunday McDonald’s dad as the wife thinks I’ve been on a dating site!! Apple privacy joke!!!!!

Why is your wife digging around in the cookies on your phone? It that's all it takes for you wife to be suspicious of you, you have some serious trust issues in your marriage. Or was that the joke?

No one who posts in ASC works for Apple, excep for Community Specialists, and they only respond to new discussions that have had no responses for 24 hours.

Onlyoneking has stated that it fixed the problem on his or her phone. Calling someone a liar is not a valid response.

Ill let the community decide whether the problem is fixed , as for me IT HAS NOT BEEN FIXED , so dont call me a liar either .. This problem HAS NOT been fixed in ios 11 .. and dont call me a liar either

NO. IT HAS NOT BEEN SOLVED.

After waiting patiently about 6 months (since the introduction of the AFS into 10.3, when the issue started) people have lost confidence and moved on, like me.

Another example that Apple gave upon resolving the issue, they just reduced the cookies options in ios 11 from 3 to 1.

Cookie management is supposed to be the most primitive task in the aspect of computing, you just put them in temp storage and delete them on demand.

A NO ISSUE for a Windows browser has become a GIGANTIC and UNRESOLVABLE issue for Apple. i don't understand what kind of convoluted and unwieldy software architecture they've been building upon.

People when using a browser they treat it like a blackboard. Thety just clean it whole after using. That's a very normal healthy thing to do. What do you do when you can't wipe off a blackboard. You throw it out and get a new one.

And I don't care about this anymore. I appriciate the Windows (and the Firefox browser & Chrome sometimes) I use most of the time even before the issue started, even more so much so that I bought a Windows tablet for the first time. A nice 12' Samsung one with an OLED screen.

In iOS 10, I’ve had difficulty removing four of those; newegg, jet, Costco & Walgreens but was eventually able to delete them.

Also, I just went to all of the ones listed in your screen shot and was able to delete my web data completely - iOS 11.1

Did you have all of them before updating to iOS 11? The different experiences between users is unsettto say the least!

I'm not sure how relevant this is to this discussion but I've had a problem with a social network site that I'd been trying to delete some data from for about a year. I contacted their tech support and was told they were aware of the problem and were trying to fix it.

Last week I gave up waiting for them to solve the issue. I closed my account.

I don't know if it cleared the data or if it's still floating around in the air waves.

I'm wondering if this is an internet problem as a whole and not any single site or operating system, maybe something with cloud technology?

Diy you actually READ the article you linked to? Including the first comment? Or did you notice that the article says they didn't test Safari on an Apple platform (on what, then; there hasn't been a version of Safari for any non-Apple platforms for 2 years)? Did you notice that it was about the DOM engine, which has nothing to do with cookies? Did you understand ANY of it, or was it just the misleading headline that you latched onto?