Brave not saving search settings

Description of the issue: My search settings (display language, search preferences, etc) aren’t being saved. I’ve made sure that the website data isn’t being shredded when I close the page, but it doesn’t change anything. I just recently updated the app, so I’m assuming it’s coming from that.

Brave Version (check About Brave): 1.81 (134)

Operating System: iOS 18.6.2

Hello @Stobe - thank you for surfacing this! One of my teammates did some testing, because it appeared (initially) that their settings were also not being retained.

Could I have you re-check your ‘About Brave’ just to ensure there are no further updates available (I don’t believe there are, but it can’t hurt to check), then try the following?:

  1. Change region, light mode, safe search
  2. Close tab, then browser
  3. Relaunch, then visit search.brave.com to see if the settings you altered were retained?

Many thanks for your assistance!

Hi B-Lee,

I followed all of the steps (after finding there were no new updates), and my settings changes were not retained.

@Stobe

Settings adjustments may not/will not stick when using a Brave Browser Private Window in order to make those changes at https://search.brave.com/settings. The adjustments are lost when closing such a window.

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I definitely haven’t been trying to make changes in private windows, it’s just been in normal tabs