You have control over your browsing data. This information includes things like your browsing history, saved form entries, and other types of data.
You can delete all your data or just some from a specific period of time.
What happens to your info
The following data related to your behavior online can be deleted from Chrome:
- Browsing History: This includes the web addresses you’ve visited that can be found on the History page, their shortcuts from the New Tab page, and the address bar predictions for those websites.
- Cookies, Site Data:
- Cookies: Cookies are files created by websites you visit. They make your online experience easier by saving browsing information.
- Site data: HTML5-enabled storage types including application caches, Web Storage data, Web SQL Database data, and Indexed Database data.
- Cached Images and Files: Chrome remembers parts of pages, like text and images, to help them open faster during your next visit.
- Saved Passwords: Records of passwords you saved.
- Autofill Data: All your Autofill entries and records of text you've entered on web forms.
There are other types of data that are related to your behavior online. These other types of data can be deleted separately:
- Search history & other Google activity: Searches and other activity on Google services are saved to your Google Account. Learn how to delete Google activity.
- Content settings: Your content settings handle how websites can set cookies, use your location, use your camera, and other things. Learn how to change your site permissions.
Tip: Before you dispose or give away your device, remember to delete your browsing data and sign out of Chrome.
Delete your Chrome browsing data
If you’ve saved a type of data to your Google Account, you can delete it from your iPhone or iPad at any time. It’ll be removed from your Google Account and won’t be available on your other devices where you’re signed in.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open Chrome
.
- Tap More
Clear Browsing Data.
- Choose the types of information you want to remove.
- Tap Clear Browsing Data.
- At the top right, tap Done.
Clear Browsing Data.Delete specific items from your browsing data
Instead of deleting entire categories of your browsing data, you can pick specific items to delete.
See more instructions:
- Specific pages from your browsing history
- Specific passwords
- Specific cookies and site data
- Specific Autofill entries
Delete other info
The following items can't be deleted by using "Clear browsing data."
Your default search engine is used when you do a search using the address bar. If you use specific keywords to create your search terms, other search engines might be used. Websites you visit can also register themselves as search engines and show your browsing history. To change or delete a search engine, you can update your search engine settings.
Your search history stored on Google is not deleted when you delete your browsing history in Chrome. To remove past searches, delete search activity.
When you clear browsing data, the data types you select are removed from Chrome, your Google Account, and your synced devices.
Other forms of browsing history, like past searches and activity on other Google services and products, are saved to your Google Account if the Web & App Activity setting is turned on. This activity isn't deleted when you clear browsing data. To view and control your saved activity, visit My Activity.
What deleting does
- If you sync data on multiple devices, deleting it on one device will delete it from all devices the next time they sync. You can choose which data types you want to sync.
- Saved site settings, like microphone or location permissions, aren't deleted here. You can delete saved site settings by updating your content settings.
- Deleting cookies will sign you out of most websites. On mobile, if you’re signed in to Chrome, you won’t be signed out of Google.