Users who upgraded to “Edge 86 stable” are reporting, new Edge is not remembering website logins. Seems the issue is triggering when the user configures Edge to clear “Hosted App data” on closing. Microsoft has acknowledged this and is currently offering a temporary workaround that keeps you signed in to websites when you close and reopen the Edge browser. The company said it is investigating the problem.
Upgrading to Windows 10 May 2020 is still breaking apps such as Chrome and causing sign-in issues by clearing cookies on the restart and pausing Sync, this is still an ongoing thing. We’ve covered a workaround for that which MS is looking into.
Meanwhile, Edge users on several threads took to Edge forum [1] [2], Reddit [1] [2], and answers forum [1] to say Edge is asking to sign into each and every website when they close and reopen the browser.
“After upgrade to Edge Stable 86.0.622.38 now when I close Edge then open a website where I previously logged in, now I have to login again, also site settings not preserved for example in YouTube”
Affected users using recently released Edge 86, confirmed they’ve not set Edge to clear Cookies on exit.
If you’re affected, follow the below steps to resolve the issue.
Workaround for Microsoft Edge 86 not remembering website logins
- Launch new Edge browser
- Visit edge://settings/clearBrowsingDataOnClose in address bar
- Disable “Hosted App data”. if the setting is already enabled.
Microsoft confirmed this as an interim solution for the issue and affected users and we can confirm its working. In fact, you can able to reproduce this in Edge including the Canary version.
Here is how you can repro this issue.
- Launch new Edge browser
- Click on the ellipsis icon
- Select Settings > Privacy, search and services
- Click on “Choose what to clear every time you close the browser”
- Scroll down and enable “Hosted App data”
- Restart the Edge browser.
Result: you’ll be logged out of websites you’ve signed to before.
While Chrome doesn’t have Clear browsing data on exit setting, you should never erase Hosted App data to avoid these sort of issues.
Have you set Edge to clear browsing data when you close it? Are you having this problem? Let us know in the comments below.
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