You can delete your Chrome browsing history and other browsing data, like saved form entries, or just delete data from a specific date.
What happens to your info
The following data related to your behaviour online can be deleted from Chrome:
- Browsing history: This includes the web addresses that you’ve visited that can be found on the History page, their shortcuts from the New tab page and the address bar predictions for those websites.
- Cookies, site data:
- Cookies: Cookies are files created by websites that you visit. They make your online experience easier by saving browsing information.
- Site data: HTML5-enabled storage types including application caches, web storage data, web SQL database data and indexed database data.
- Cached images and files: Chrome remembers parts of pages, like text and images, to help them open faster during your next visit.
- Saved passwords: Records of passwords that you saved.
- Autofill data: All your autofill entries and records of text that you've entered on web forms.
There are other types of data that are related to your behaviour online. These other types of data can be deleted separately:
- Search history and other Google activity: Searches and other activity on Google services are saved to your Google Account. Learn how to delete Google activity.
- Content settings: Your content settings handle how websites can set cookies, use your location, use your camera and other things. Learn how to change your site permissions.
Tip: Before you dispose or give away your device, remember to delete your browsing data and sign out of Chrome.
Delete your Chrome browsing data
If you’ve saved a type of data to your Google Account, you can delete it from your iPhone or iPad at any time. It’ll be removed from your Google Account and won’t be available on your other devices where you’re signed in.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open Chrome
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- Tap More
Delete browsing data.
- Choose the types of information that you want to remove.
- Tap Delete browsing data.
- In the pop-up window, tap Clear browsing data.
- At the top right, tap Done.
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Delete browsing data.Tips:
- To sign out of your Google Account on all websites, sign out of Chrome.
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In the address bar, to quickly reach the Delete browsing data dialogue, type 'Delete browsing data' and then, tap the Action chip. Learn Chrome Actions to quickly complete tasks.
Instead of deleting entire categories of your browsing data, you can pick items to delete: