diff --git a/apps/advanced/backend/config/main.php b/apps/advanced/backend/config/main.php
index c745a1f..d1a45a7 100644
--- a/apps/advanced/backend/config/main.php
+++ b/apps/advanced/backend/config/main.php
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ return [
 		'mail' => $params['components.mail'],
 		'user' => [
 			'identityClass' => 'common\models\User',
+			'enableAutoLogin' => true,
 		],
 		'log' => [
 			'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,
diff --git a/apps/advanced/frontend/config/main.php b/apps/advanced/frontend/config/main.php
index 6ee8ae5..2a0f330 100644
--- a/apps/advanced/frontend/config/main.php
+++ b/apps/advanced/frontend/config/main.php
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ return [
 		'mail' => $params['components.mail'],
 		'user' => [
 			'identityClass' => 'common\models\User',
+			'enableAutoLogin' => true,
 		],
 		'log' => [
 			'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,
diff --git a/apps/basic/config/web.php b/apps/basic/config/web.php
index 472f842..e142855 100644
--- a/apps/basic/config/web.php
+++ b/apps/basic/config/web.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ $config = [
 		],
 		'user' => [
 			'identityClass' => 'app\models\User',
+			'enableAutoLogin' => true,
 		],
 		'errorHandler' => [
 			'errorAction' => 'site/error',
diff --git a/framework/CHANGELOG.md b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
index fb51798..7ef506d 100644
--- a/framework/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Bug #1550: fixed the issue that JUI input widgets did not property input IDs.
 - Bug #1582: Error messages shown via client-side validation should not be double encoded (qiangxue)
 - Bug #1591: StringValidator is accessing undefined property (qiangxue)
+- Bug #1597: Added `enableAutoLogin` to basic and advanced application templates so "remember me" now works properly (samdark)
 - Bug: Fixed `Call to a member function registerAssetFiles() on a non-object` in case of wrong `sourcePath` for an asset bundle (samdark)
 - Bug: Fixed incorrect event name for `yii\jui\Spinner` (samdark)
 - Bug: Json::encode() did not handle objects that implement JsonSerializable interface correctly (cebe)