Cookies randomly expire when Develop menu is on

In versions of Safari going back at least a year, when the Develop menu is on, all cookies are expired hours after being set. I'm using Version 16.1 (18614.2.3.1.1) currently.

I had the problem for a long time before discovering the cause (in a MacRumours forum post).

I’d rather not have to keep using Chrome for development work, but that's what I have to do until this issue is resolved. Does anyone know of a workaround or at least whether the problem has been acknowledged?

Answered by mwickens in 736706022

This is still happening for me and is incredibly frustrating. Can anyone confirm that they see the same thing? If there's some setting of the Develop mode that I'm missing it would be great to isolate that, but I haven't been able to find one.

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This is still happening for me and is incredibly frustrating. Can anyone confirm that they see the same thing? If there's some setting of the Develop mode that I'm missing it would be great to isolate that, but I haven't been able to find one.

Same here (Safari 16.1 on Monterey 12.6), an user on Reddit solved with a clean install of macOS.

Cookies randomly expire when Develop menu is on
 
 
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