Looking to start fresh with a blank slate as history? Want to remove an entry from your Safari browsing history? Find out here how to delete the Safari history on iPhone and iPad.
First, a Self-Servian Restaurant
Outside Rome’s Termini station, you can marvel at walls from the 4th century BCE. You can marvel from quite a bit away, separated from ancient history by a fence and meadow.
Inside the station, you can go to McDonald’s and marvel at remnants of the same Servian wall leaning back in your chair and just about ready to touch it.
Now, with that history before our eyes, want to put other parts of history not just behind meadow and fence but without reach in your browser altogether?
How to Delete the Safari History on iPhone and iPad
Delete All Safari History
Time needed: 1 minute
To clear your browsing history in Safari for iOS and iPadOS on iPhone and iPad:
- Tap the bookmarks button (📖) in Safari.
Here’s where: You’ll see the button in any tab’s toolbar, but not in the tab overview.
- Go to the History tab (🕘).
- Click Clear.
- Choose All history under CLEAR TIMEFRAME.
Other timeframes: You can also choose delete only more recent history entries, of course (such as Last hour or Today and yesterday).
- Click Clear History.
No further confirmation: Safari will not ask again and remove the websites visited during the chosen period immediately.
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Remove a Particular Page from the History
To delete a page from your browsing history in Safari on iPhone:
- Open the browsing history in Safari (see above).
- Long swipe over any entry from the right that you want to remove from history.
More than one: To delete multiple pages in one go, tap Edit, check all entries you want to delete, then tap Delete.
Search: You can use the Search History bar to find entries from a particular domain, for example.
How to Delete the Safari History on iPhone and iPad: FAQ
Will removing pages from the history on iPhone also remove it from Safari on other devices?
Yes.
if Safari is set up to use iCloud for synchronizing bookmarks, history and more, deleting the browsing history will synchronize as well.
Can I group pages in the history?
No.
Entries are always grouped by time.
Will pages also be removed from frequently visited sites?
Yes.
Deleting a page from the browsing history in Safari will also remove their count from the list of frequently visited pages.
(How to delete the Safari history on iPhone and iPad tested with iOS 17; first published August 2024)