At surfing the Internet, we need to have a fast, simple and easy to use browser. iOS and Mac users know that the best option to take advantage of support for Apple devices is Safari. This web browsing program is developed by Apple's technical team, and although its best features are used on iOS and Mac, it also has a version compatible with Windows computers.
With a light interface full of options, but still a fast and light operation so as not to overload the computer, Safari fights among the top web browsers. It has different features of its own, such as the creation of reading lists for specific websites, an advanced download system and compatibility with the latest web protocols: HTML5 and CSS3, among others. In this post we will explore how to clear our history and leave no browsing traces when using Safari. The mechanism is similar to that of clear history on google.
Clear Safari history on macOS
The options for deleting Safari's history include, from the possibility of deleting cookies, to deleting a specific address from history, all of it, or some specific elements. We start the process to clear navigation in Safari from macOS with the following steps:
- We open the Preferences – Privacy – Manage website data option in the browser menu.
- The pop-up window will show us the list of saved web pages, either in the form of cookies, cache files, certificates or previews.
- If you want to delete all the information from your web browsing in Safari on the device, we select the “Delete all” button
- If you want to delete specific pages, we will select each one, and press the "Delete" button. You can also select multiple at once, and delete with a single tap.
To prevent cookies and information about different pages you visit from being saved in the future, you can select the option “Block all cookies” from the Preferences – Privacy menu.
Clear Safari history on Mac based on time period
Another alternative for deleting browsing data and history in Safari refers to the time the data has been saved. For example, you can delete the data of the last hours or days, or delete the complete history of all the times we have browsed using Safari on our computer.
To do this deletion, we will open the option History in the top menu bar of the browser. In the drop-down list we choose the option “Delete history…” and in the pop-up window we choose the period of time that we want to delete. We can delete the browsing data from the last day, the last hour or from the first time we installed iOS.
Once the period of time to be deleted has been chosen, just confirm with the "Delete history" button and that's it. No traces of our browsing experience will remain on the device.
Clear Safari History on iOS
On Apple mobile devices, it is also possible to delete Safari browsing history in a simple way. This is especially useful on phones and tablets, because these are mobile devices where people browse a lot and a lot of data accumulates over time.
On iPhone and iPad, the management of the Safari browser is a bit different, but with a few taps we can delete the browsing history. We have to open the Settings application, select the application Safari – Advanced – Website Data. The “Delete all data” button will appear there, and pressing it deletes cookies and similar data.
To delete cookies and history at the same time, we go back to Settings – Safari and select the option “Clear history and website data”. In a single order, the browser of your mobile or tablet will erase from Safari all browsing traces that you have made.
Benefits of Clearing Safari History
A very repeated question when it comes to clear browsing history, it's about the benefits it can bring to our device. Analyzing the operation of the browser, we can say that unexpected navigation errors are solved on certain pages. You can also get an improvement in the loading speed of new websites, and without a doubt there are important improvements when it comes to data protection and privacy.
If you use the Safari browser to fill out forms or surveys on the web, clear your history ensures that answers in similar boxes are not autocompleted. The key to this tool is to prevent your history from storing data and reduce the risk of a stranger accessing it.
Conclusions
Like other web browsers today, Safari gives you privacy and protection of your data by erasing any trace of your user experience. This way you can browse and then delete the data so that forms are not completed automatically and your login data or passwords are not even saved on pages or services.