(No Data Loss) How to Clear History on iPhone – 2026

Want to delete your browsing history on your iPhone? You might do this for privacy reasons or to clear old browsing data, but it helps to know what will be removed before you clear everything at once.

So how do you clear browsing history on iPhone properly? This guide covers how to delete history on iPhone whether you use Siri, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.

Clear History on Safari

There are different ways to clear your search history on Safari. You can clear individual pages (the search history of respective websites), delete your search history in batches, or clear your browsing history at once for all your linked iOS devices.

Steps to Clear All History on Safari

Steps to Clear History for Safari on iPhone

1. Go to the home screen of your iPhone.
2. Then go to settings and open the app. This app has an icon that resembles a gear.
3. On recent iPhone software, tap Apps, then click on Safari.
4. Click on Clear History and Website Data at the bottom of your screen.


Note: Remember that following the steps below will also delete your cookies, history, cache, and other browsing data on the iOS devices you signed into your iCloud account.
5. Confirm this by tapping Clear History and Data. Once you click on this option, it will be grayed out until Safari stores new browsing data again.

Clear History of Individual Sites

1. From your iPhone home screen, open the Safari app.
2. Click on the bookmarks icon, which you can find at the bottom of your screen. It looks like an open-blue book.
3. Click on the history icon, which you can see in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen. It looks like a clock.


Steps to Clear History of Individual Sites

4. Swipe left on the website you want to delete and click on the red delete button. You can also choose to swipe all the way left.

Clear History Based on Time Periods

You can also clear your Safari history based on time periods. This deletes history by time range, and clearing it can also remove cookies, history, and browsing data on other iOS devices signed in to your iCloud account.

1. From your iPhone home screen, open the Safari app.
2. Click on the bookmarks icon, which you will find at the bottom of your screen. It looks like an open-blue book.
3. Click on this history icon which you can see in the upper-right-hand corner of the screen. It looks like a clock.


History Based on Time Periods on Safari

4. Select clear, which you can find at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
5. Choose the time range that you want to delete. You can choose Today, All time, Today and yesterday, or The last hour. On newer iPhone software, Safari may also ask which profile you want to clear.

Clear History on Chrome

Chrome keeps a record of the sites you recently visited. You can either delete the entire browsing history at once or remove specific sites one by one.

Clear All Browsing History

1. From your iPhone home screen, open Chrome.
2. Tap on the menu, an icon you can find at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
3. In the pop-up menu, click on history.
4. At the bottom left side of your screen, select Clear Browsing Data.
5. Make sure there is a checkmark beside browsing history. You can uncheck other items if you do not want to delete cookies, cached files, or saved passwords.


Steps to Clear All Browsing History on Chrome

6. Click on the Clear Browsing Data button at the bottom of your screen.
7. A pop-up box will appear where you can confirm the action.

Clear History of Individual Sites

1. From your iPhone home screen, open Chrome.
2. Click on menu/more which is an icon at the bottom right of the screen.


Steps to Clear All Browsing History on Chrome

3. In the pop-up menu, select history.
4. On the bottom right of your screen, click on edit.
5. Choose the sites you want to delete by tapping on them. A checkmark will appear beside the sites you have chosen.
6. On the bottom left side of your screen, click on delete.

Clear History on Firefox

Here are the steps for Firefox. You can clear all history, remove specific sites, or choose a recent time range based on what you need.

Clear All Browsing History

Click History on Firefox Menu

1. From your iPhone home screen, open Firefox.
2. Click on the menu, an icon at the bottom right corner of the screen.
3. Select settings.
4. Select data management.
5. Make sure the browsing history toggle is turned on. If it is blue, it means it is on.
6. Click on clear private data.
7. Confirm by clicking ok on the pop-up screen.

Clear History of Individual Sites

1. From your iPhone home screen, open Firefox.
2. Click on the menu, which is an icon at the bottom right hand of the screen.
3. Select settings.


Clear Browsing Data Interface on Firefox

4. Select data management.
5. Click on website data.
6. Click on the red buttonto choose a site you want to delete.
7. Click on delete.

Clear History Based on Time Periods

Clear Browsing Data Interface on Firefox

1. From your iPhone home screen, open Firefox.
2. Click on your library.
3. On the bottom of your screen, click on the history tab.
4. Select clear recent history.
5. Select a time frame for clearing your history. You can choose Today and yesterday, Today or The last hour.

Clear History on Siri

If you use Siri often, Apple keeps a record of your Siri and dictation interactions. If you want more privacy, you can clear that history with the steps below.

1. From your iPhone home screen, go to settings.
2. Click on Siri & Search.


Siri & Dictation History

3. Click on Siri & Dictionary History and delete it, then confirm the prompt if your iPhone asks again.

How to Visit Websites without History?

You can browse privately with Private Browsing. When you turn it on, the websites you visit are not shared with your linked devices, and that browsing history is not saved in the usual way. Here is how to do so:

On iPhone

1. Open Safari.
2. Click on tabs.




IPhone Private Browsing Mode

3. Click on the start page to have access to the tab groups list.
4. Click on Private.

On iPad

Click on the New Private Tab

1. Open Safari.
2. Touch and hold tabs – a button.
3. Click on the new private tab.

How to Block Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data put on your device by a site you visit so that whenever you revisit the site, it can remember you. Keep in mind that deleting cookies and removing history are different, and completing the above steps still may not clear the space used by cookies.

But if you do not want a site to remember you, you can block cookies on your iPhone. Note that this will cause some web pages on your device not to work. Here is how to do so:

1. From your iPhone home screen, click on settings.
2. On recent iPhone software, tap Apps, then select Safari.
3. Turn on Block all Cookies by tapping on the toggle. Keep in mind that some websites may stop working normally after you do this.