How to get rid of cookie banners in Safari on iPhone

Cookie banners ask for your consent before a site uses cookies and trackers. Safari's settings can't switch them off, but a content blocker can hide most of them.

Why every site asks

Privacy laws in Europe and elsewhere require many sites to ask before they use cookies for ads and analytics. Each site asks separately and stores your answer in its own cookies — so when you clear website data, the banners come back.

Hide them with a content blocker

Popbye's Ad Blocker includes a list of cookie notices and consent pop-ups and hides most of them in Safari. In the app, keep Cookie Banners & Pop-ups on, and switch on Popbye — Ad Blocker in Safari's settings: here's how.

Hiding a banner doesn't press any of its buttons: you neither accept nor reject anything.

Block the trackers too

To stop known tracking scripts from loading at all, also turn on Popbye — Tracker Blocker in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions. Safari's own Prevent Cross-Site Tracking setting, on by default, also limits cookies that follow you from site to site.

If a site won't work without its banner

A few sites wait for your answer before they show anything. Pause Popbye on that site — in Safari, tap Share → Popbye → Pause Popbye on This Site — and answer the banner once.