Safari autofill getting old address from somewhere

[IVIarth]

This drove me nuts and I seem to have found the problem in my situation. My contact card was up to date, and I tried toggling Autofill settings on and off as described elsewhere. The problem persisted. Here's what fixed it:

1. In Finder, open the Library file (https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reveal-library-folder-in-macos/)

2. Open the Safari folder, and move the "Form Values" file to the trash.

3. Empty the trash.

You may need to restart Safari or the Mac, I don't recall. But my old address is now gone!

(4. You may also need to move the following to the Trash, although when I initially tried this it didn't work. It was only after I deleted "Form Values". Anyway, also delete these from the Safari folder: AutoFillCorrections.db, AutoFillCorrections.db-shm, AutoFillCorrections.db-wal. MacOS will re-create clean versions for you.)

This old post talks about the Form Values file. I'm guessing it's something some of us have been carrying around from old versions of Mac OS.

Where are autofill values stored? - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

Hi guys, this worked for me too! (thanks it was really driving me crazy for almost one year!).
I have another problem though. My Mac is working properly, the autofill information is finally the correct one but the problem persist on my iPhone which still show the old address. Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance, M.

 

[ikramerica]

Hurray, @MacLayan, you solved the mystery! This finally solved the issue for me too. Thanks a lot for sharing, M.

Someone should inform Apple of this fix as they are clueless. Have been dealing with this problem for 2 years. What's so dumb is that you choose Your Name from Home and it would autofill all the old information. But then if you went to each field like city or address or zip and click on the drop down in the corner of the box, it would ONLY show the new, correct address as the item to choose.

But throwing away the Form Value files and restarting Safari is all it takes. No system restarts or anything else. You don't even have to empty the trash as items in the trash are in a walled garden.