I've recently finished a project storing cookies with capacitor, and, for my surprise, everything is working, closed the app, and the user is still logged in.
Don't really understand, I was 100% sure that * wasn't allowed when storing cookies, remember having a lot of issues and that is why I said:
A little confused right now, something has changed? Sorry for all this stuff..
Don't know if @kfawcett can share his experience..