To clear your history and cookies, go to Settings > Safari, and tap Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies and browsing data from Safari won't change your AutoFill information.
Important: If you delete Search history that's saved to your Google Account, you can't get it back. You can delete a specific activity, or delete your Search history from a specific day, a custom date range, or all time.
You can remove all records that Safari keeps of where you've browsed during a period of time you choose. If your Mac and your other Apple devices have Safari turned on in iCloud settings, your browsing history is removed from all of them.
Navigate to Settings > Privacy and Security > Clear browsing data. Select the data you want to remove and from what range, and click Clear data.
Delete all activity
On your Android phone or tablet, go to myactivity.google.com. Above your activity, tap Delete . Tap All time. Delete.
Browsing history: Clearing your browsing history deletes the following: Web addresses you've visited are removed from the History page. Shortcuts to those pages are removed from the New Tab page. Address bar predictions for those websites are no longer shown.
Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Go to Settings > Safari, and tap Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies, and browsing data from Safari won't change your AutoFill information.
Your Mac can keep your browsing history for as long as a year, while some iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models keep browsing history for a month. To change how often your Mac removes items from your history, see Change General settings.
Your Mac can keep your browsing history for as long as a year, while some iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models keep browsing history for a month. To change how often your Mac removes items from your history, see Change General settings.
Browser data stored on your iPhone includes history, cache, and cookies. When stored, the data delivers faster load times, automatically populates web forums, tailors advertisements, and provides records of your web searches.
Private Browsing is Safari's implementation of private browsing mode present in all modern browsers. Here's what it does: It prevents your browsing from appearing in the History on your iPhone. Your Private Mode tabs don't appear on your other connected Apple devices.
If the content has been removed, and still shows up in a google search, this indicates the content (snapshot of the page) has been cached. If content was deleted from a site but still shows up in Google search results, the page description or cache might be outdated.
In order to be as safe as possible online, it is necessary to delete your search history frequently. Failing to do so makes it much easier for hackers to collect enough of your personal information to scam and deceive you.
Select History to see the list, and click the X next to each entry you want to clear. If you click the menu and go to Settings > Delete browsing data, you get the option to clear all the private data of your choice. Use Delete browsing data on quit to do exactly that, everytime.
Most people only need to clear their caches once every month or two. That's generally the point when your browser will build up a cache large enough to start slowing things down. If you frequent a large number of sites, you should err on the side of clearing your cache more often.
Who Else Can Track My Browsing History? The sad truth is that anyone can view your browser history and search history. Many websites use cookies that follow you and recommend items based on your search history. Governments can track you if you do something to alert them.
When you browse privately, other people who use the device won't see your history. Chrome doesn't save your browsing history or information entered in forms. Cookies and site data are remembered while you're browsing, but deleted when you exit Incognito mode.
Delete incognito history on Android:
Launch Google Chrome and enter chrome://net-internals/#dns in the URL bar. Pick DNS from the side menu and tap on Clear host cache.
Clearing your browser history is important; not only does it improve the overall performance of the app, but it prevents you from filling out forms and using old information, making it a more secure way to browse the web.
Factory reset or hard reset deletes complete data and settings from your iPhone. All your photos, videos, contacts, call logs, passwords, messages, browsing history, calendar, chat history, notes, installed apps, etc., get deleted from the iOS device. It cleans your iPhone as new with no personal information at all.
Check if the browsing history is stored in iCloud: Open Safari and click on "History" in the menu bar, and then select "Show All History." If you see your deleted browsing history here, it means that it is still stored in iCloud, and you can restore it by turning off iCloud sync for Safari and then turning it back on.
Stop syncing Safari over iCloud. If you still can't delete your Safari history, then it's time to look at your iCloud sync settings. If you use iCloud, it syncs your bookmarks, reading list, and browsing history across all your Apple devices.
When there's no history or website data to clear, the setting will turn grey. The setting may also appear grey if you have web content restrictions set up under Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time.