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They still haven't addressed the permanent website data bug in Safari.

Go to Settings> Safari> Advanced> Website Data and try and clear it. Some websites won't delete arbitrarily, and if they do, others will stick. This happens even in private browsing.

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Have you filed a radar bug?

In my experience, those are about as useful as telling your dog about the bug. Complaining on HN has a slight possibility someone from Apple might actually see the bug, and fix it.

I'd disagree, I've filed probably 15 in the past 7 years for obscure bugs and all of them were fixed. They don't respond and the fixes take a long time, but I'm pretty sure they are listening.

I’ve used the built in Feedback app several times and received replies asking for follow up so it’s fair to say they are listening

Not that this will instil a huge amount of confidence, but I filed a bug about a XNU kernel syscal that returned the wrong error code. They shipped a fix two years later and closer the ticket.

I provided a diff fixing the bug but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To be fair, they can’t use your diff without you signing it over as it may be copyrighted

If it was just changing a constant (which is what GP implied), that would probably not constitute sufficient creative output to be subject to copyright.

To be more fair, they didn't ask me to.

I can assure you, radars have ∞ more chance of getting something changed verses just compaining about it on a website.

File the radars.

I would be more inclined to file them if I didn't have to consult an independent third party (open radar) to (hopefully) see what's going on with the radar referenced when one gets closed as a dupe. The more you make it a chore to file or track bugs the less likely I am to bother.

No. Please file a radar. They get read and the more dups increases the likelihood it'll be addressed.

And I thought I was the only one to experience it. Had that fixed months ago but didn't think enough of it to save the solution for posterity.

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