---
title: Enabling partitioned cookies
description: The Partitioned attribute allows cookies to always be readable within the same context.
component: pingfederate
version: 13.0
page_id: pingfederate:administrators_reference_guide:pf_enabling_partitioned_cookies
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.0/administrators_reference_guide/pf_enabling_partitioned_cookies.html
revdate: December 13, 2023
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
  choose-from: Choose from:
---

# Enabling partitioned cookies

The `Partitioned` attribute allows cookies to always be readable within the same context.

## About this task

Google Chrome has announced they are deprecating third-party cookies in 2024. This change might break PingFederate use cases based on iframe-based login widgets.

You can enable the `Partitioned` attribute for cookies set by PingFederate. This ensures that, when a cookie is created in a given context (such as an application using an embedded login widget), the cookie will continue to be readable within that same context.

This feature is controlled with a `config-store` file called `global-cookie-config.xml`, and is disabled by default.

## Steps

1. Go to `<PF_installation>/server/default/data/config-store/globabl-cookie-config.xml`.

2. Change the `enable-partitioned-cookies` value to `true`.

   The file should now look like the following.

   ```xml
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <c:config xmlns:c="http://www.sourceid.org/2004/05/config">
       <c:item name="enable-partitioned-cookies">true</c:item>
       <!--Partitioned cookie incompatible User-Agent exclusion list
       each listItem must be regex targeting specific User-Agent(s)-->
       <c:list name="partitioned-cookies-user-agent-exclusion"></c:list>
   </c:config>
   ```

3. (Optional) Alternatively, you can make this change with the following REST call to PingFederate's administrative API.

   ```shell
   curl -u <username:password> -X 'PUT' \
     'https://<PF_host>/pf-admin-api/v1/configStore/global-cookie-config/enable-partitioned-cookies' \
     -H 'accept: application/json' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -H 'X-XSRF-Header: PingFederate' \
     -d '{"id": "enable-partitioned-cookies", "type": "STRING", "stringValue": "true"}'
   ```

4. Depending on the clustering mode of your deployment, either:

   ### Choose from:

   * In a standalone environment, restart PingFederate.

   * In a clustered environment, replicate the PingFederate configuration.