How to Clear Browsing History on iPhone

Your iPhone keeps a record of everything you have searched online. It’s great to have quick access to your favorite websites and web apps, but sometimes, you might not want your online activities to be saved forever.

Browsing history can lead to unwanted ads from marketers and spammers and can expose sensitive information like passwords through web cookies. In such cases, you may need to clear browsing history on iPhone.

In this blog, let’s look at how to clear browsing history on iPhone.

Steps to Clear Browsing History on iPhone

We will discuss two different ways to clear Safari’s history.

• Setting app – If you clear browser history via the Settings app, all the data, including caches and cookies, will be cleared.
• Browser’s settings – If you clear browser history via the browser settings, only the browser history will be cleared.

Clearing All Safari History

Let’s look at how to clear the history of the Safari browser from the Settings app.

1. Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Scroll down and select Safari.
3. Tap on the Clear History and Website Data option and then Clear History and Data.

Your Safari data, including searches, caches, cookies, and other browsing history, will be cleared. This method works for iPads too!

Note: Once you clear Safari history, it will clear from every device signed into your iCloud account.

Clearing Specific Website Data in Safari

If you’re looking to clear just the search data in Safari, then proceed with the following steps.

1. Open the Settings app on your device.
2. Scroll down and select Safari.
3. Go to the Advanced section and select Website Data.
4. Tap on Remove All Website Data and then Remove Now.

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Deleting Particular Events in Safari on iPhone

To avoid clearing your entire Safari history on your iPhone, you can remove specific site visits by following these steps:

1. Open the Safari browser.
2. In the bottom panel, select the bookmarks icon.
3. Tap the clock icon to see your history. You’ll find a list of websites you’ve visited.
4. To delete a specific site, swipe left and tap Delete.
5. Tap Clear in the bottom panel to clear data from a specific time period.
6. In the popup menu, choose the timeframe for clearing: All time, Today and yesterday, Today, or The last hour.

Clearing Google Search History on iPhone

For those using Google as their default search engine on an iPhone, you may want to clear its search history. Follow these steps:

1. Open the Chrome browser.
2. Tap on the three dots icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
3. Tap on Clear Browsing Data.
4. Select the data you want to clear, such as browsing history, cookies, site data, cached images and files, auto-fill data, or saved passwords.
5. Tap again on Clear Browsing Data.

Conclusion

It’s a simple process to clear browsing history on iPhone. This blog explains how to clear browsing history in Safari and Google Chrome. It also shows how to delete specific websites, select time periods, or clear all your data. Following these steps can help keep your iPhone running well and protect your privacy.

Tahneet Kanwal

Tahneet Kanwal is a software engineer with a passion for frontend development and a keen eye for user experience. With a strong foundation in web technologies, she brings a practical perspective to her writing. As a technical content writer at LambdaTest, Tahneet combines her engineering expertise with her communication skills to craft engaging, SEO-friendly articles. Her work spans various topics in web development, software testing, and emerging tech trends, keeping readers informed and inspired.

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