How to delete WKWebview cookies

Question

For now I am doing like this

    NSHTTPCookie *cookie;
    NSHTTPCookieStorage *storage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage];
    for (cookie in [         


        

Answer 1

It seems like NSHTTPCookieStorage is now being used in iOS 8.2 to correctly clear cookies, as required. I had shipped an app which would run this code prior to opening a WKWebView based login:

NSHTTPCookieStorage *storage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage];
for (NSHTTPCookie *cookie in [storage cookies])
{
    [storage deleteCookie:cookie];
}

Where earlier than iOS 8.2 the website would auto-login using the saved cookies, it now correctly asks the user to re-login. All this happened without me shipping an update to the app. :)

Answer 2

Building on top of all the existing answers, if you are trying to clear cookies and data records for a specific WKWebView instance 'webView' and not the 'default' stored cookies and data records, you could use the following:

let dataStore = webView.configuration.websiteDataStore
let cookieStore = dataStore.httpCookieStore
cookieStore.getAllCookies {
    $0.forEach { cookie in
        cookieStore.delete(cookie)
    }
}
dataStore.fetchDataRecords(ofTypes: WKWebsiteDataStore.allWebsiteDataTypes()) { records in
    records.forEach { record in
        dataStore.removeData(ofTypes: record.dataTypes, for: [record]) { }
    }
}

Answer 3

Swift 3 version of Sarat's answer:

let dataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.default()
dataStore.fetchDataRecords(ofTypes: WKWebsiteDataStore.allWebsiteDataTypes()) { (records) in
    for record in records {
        if record.displayName.contains("facebook") {
            dataStore.removeData(ofTypes: WKWebsiteDataStore.allWebsiteDataTypes(), for: [record], completionHandler: {
                print("Deleted: " + record.displayName);
            })
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

In iOS9:

//// Optional data
NSSet *websiteDataTypes
= [NSSet setWithArray:@[
                        WKWebsiteDataTypeDiskCache,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeOfflineWebApplicationCache,
                        WKWebsiteDataTypeMemoryCache,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeLocalStorage,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeCookies,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeSessionStorage,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeIndexedDBDatabases,
                        //WKWebsiteDataTypeWebSQLDatabases
                        ]];
//// All kinds of data
//NSSet *websiteDataTypes = [WKWebsiteDataStore allWebsiteDataTypes];
//// Date from
NSDate *dateFrom = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:0];
//// Execute
[[WKWebsiteDataStore defaultDataStore] removeDataOfTypes:websiteDataTypes modifiedSince:dateFrom completionHandler:^{
    // Done
    NSLog(@"remove done");
}];

Answer 5

Swift 4 and shorter version:

let dataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.default()
dataStore.fetchDataRecords(ofTypes: WKWebsiteDataStore.allWebsiteDataTypes()) { records in
    dataStore.removeData(ofTypes: WKWebsiteDataStore.allWebsiteDataTypes(),
                         for: records.filter { $0.displayName.contains("facebook") },
                         completionHandler: completion)
}

Answer 6

In addition to clearing cookies in the shared cookie storage, i'd try clearing the cache (NSURLCache) and discard the WKWebView and create a new one with a new WKProcessPool