Delete your Safari history, cache, and cookies on iPhone

In your iPhone settings, you can choose to delete your Safari history, cookies, cache, or a specific website from your history. You can also turn on content blockers.

• Delete history, cache, and cookies

• Clear cookies and cache, but keep your history

• Delete a website from your history

• Block cookies

• Use content blockers

Delete history, cache, and cookies

1. Go to Settings > Apps > Safari.

2. Scroll down and tap Clear History and Website Data.

   

Confirm the timeframe that you want to clear, then tap Clear History. This doesn't change your AutoFill information. If this button is gray, there is either no data to clear, or you might need to check your web content restrictions in Screen Time.

Clear cookies and cache, but keep your history

1. Go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Advanced > Website Data.

2. Tap Remove All Website Data. If this button is gray, there is either no data to clear, or you might need to check your web content restrictions in Screen Time.

3. Tap Remove Now. This clears data that's used for tracking, and by websites to save login information for faster browsing.

Delete a website from your history

1. Open the Safari app, then tap the More button.

   

2. Tap Bookmarks.

   

3. Tap the History button , then tap the More button again.

   

4. Tap Select Websites, then select one or more websites to delete from your history.

   

5. Tap the Trash button.

Block cookies

1. If you want to block cookies (data a site places on your device to remember you), go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Advanced.

2. Turn on Block All Cookies.

3. Tap Block All. This removes all existing cookies and website data. Safari quits, and your tabs are reloaded.

If you block cookies, some webpages might not work. Here are some examples:

• You will likely not be able to sign in to a site, even when using your correct username and password.

• You might see a message that cookies are required or that your browser's cookies are off.

• Some features on a site might not work.

Use content blockers

1. Go to the App Store and download a content blocking app (third-party apps and extensions that let Safari block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups, and other content).

2. Then tap Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions.

3. Tap to turn on a listed content blocker.

You can use more than one content blocker. If you need help, contact the app developer.