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Clearing the cache on your iPhone can help improve any loading or connection issues. When you clear your cache, temporary files will be deleted. This can free up space and even maintain your online privacy. Here's how to clear your browser's cache on an iPhone.
Quick Steps
- Open Settings .
- Tap Safari .
- Tap Clear History and Website Data
- Tap All history .
- Tap Clear History .
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Open your iPhone's Settings . This is a grey icon with gears that's likely on your iPhone's Home screen. If you don't see it there, you'll find it in your App Library.
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Scroll down and tap Safari . It's the compass icon about a third of the way down the page.Advertisement
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Tap Clear History and Website Data . You'll need to scroll down to find it; it's near the middle of the page.
- A pop-up menu will open.
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Select All history . This is the option at the bottom of the Clear Timeframe header.
- If you continue, this will also clear the browsing history anywhere else you're signed in with the same Apple ID. This won't affect your saved passwords, addresses, or credit card info.
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Tap Clear History to confirm. Your cache and other browsing data is now removed.
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Remove cache, but keep history (optional). If you want to remove Safari's cache and cookies without deleting the history, do the following:
- Open Settings .
- Tap Safari .
- Tap Advanced .
- Tap Website Data .
- Tap Remove All Website Data . [1] X Research source
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Open the Chrome app. It's a white icon with a red, green, yellow, and blue sphere inside.
- If you sign in to Chrome using the same Google account you use on your iPhone, the browsing data you delete will be removed from there as well.
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Tap the menu ••• . It's the three horizontal dots at the bottom-right corner of the screen. This opens a menu.
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Tap History . This is at the top of the pop-up menu. If you don't see it, swipe left on the apps to show more.
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Tap Clear Browsing Data… . This is the red link at the bottom-left corner of your browsing history.
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Select the data you want to delete. By default, the first three options ( Browsing History , Cookies, Site Data , and Cached Images and Files ) are all selected. The blue checkmark next to each option indicates that it's marked for deletion. To select another type of data for deletion, tap it so a blue checkmark appears.
- If you only want to delete the cache, tap each other item that has a blue checkmark to remove its checkmark.
- Avoid selecting "Saved Passwords" or "Autofill Data," as that will delete the passwords, addresses, and credit cards you've saved to Chrome .
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Tap Clear Browsing Data at the bottom. A confirmation will open.
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Tap Clear Browsing Data again to confirm. This removes the selected data.
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Tap ☰ . This is at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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Tap Settings . It's at the bottom of the menu.
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Tap Data Management . You can find this underneath the Privacy header.
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Choose which data to delete. To mark a type of data for deletion, make sure its corresponding slider is set to the On (blue) position. By default, all sliders are on/blue, with the exception of "Downloaded Files."
- To delete the cache only, tap all of the other activated sliders to turn them off.
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Tap Clear Private Data . It's the red link at the bottom of the screen. A confirmation message will appear, letting you know this action cannot be undone.
- If you're signed in to Firefox with your Mozilla account, clearing your cache and other data will also delete that data everywhere you're signed in to Firefox.
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Tap OK to confirm. This deletes all of the selected information.
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Tap ☰ . This is at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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Tap History . You can find this at the top of the pop-up menu.
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Tap the trash can icon. This is at the top-right corner, next to Done .
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Choose which data to delete. By default, the first three options ( Browsing history , Cookies and other site data , and Cached images and files ) are all selected. The blue checkmark next to each option indicates that it's marked for deletion. To select another type of data for deletion, tap it so a blue checkmark appears.
- To delete only the cache, tap each other item that has a blue checkmark to remove its checkmark.
- Avoid selecting "Passwords" or "Autofill form data," as that will delete the passwords, addresses, and credit cards you've saved to Edge.
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Tap Clear now . This is at the bottom of the page in red font.
- If you're signed in to Edge with your Microsoft account, clearing your cache and other data will also delete that data everywhere you're signed in to Edge.
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Tap Clear now . This removes the selected data from Edge.
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QuestionHow do I free up memory on my iPhone?Living ConcreteTop AnswererYou may free up memory by removing photos (including photos that are "deleted" but still on the phone), removing videos, deleting IM threads with photos, clearing the cache for music apps like Spotify and Google Play, and removing apps that you no longer need. Check on whatever is using the most storage on your iPhone by going to General and then to Storage. iOS will tell you what is using up the most space.
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QuestionHow do I completely clean out all my Google searches on my iPhone and all my activity?Thomas WCommunity AnswerGo into your history and click, "Clear Browsing Data," then choose what you want to delete.
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1. Open Settings
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2. Tap Safari
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3. Tap Clear History and Website Data
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4. Tap Clear History and Data
when prompted.
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