Check or delete your Chrome browsing history

Websites that you've visited are recorded in your browsing history. You can check or delete your browsing history and find related searches in Chrome. You can also resume browsing sessions on other devices if you're signed in and have your history synced to your Google Account.

When you delete your browsing history in Chrome, it's also deleted on your devices where you're signed in to Chrome and have your history synced to your Google Account.

Tip: Separately, you can also delete your Google search history from your account.

Understand and manage your Chrome history

What your Chrome history lists

Your history lists the pages that you've visited on Chrome in the last 90 days. It doesn't store:

• Chrome pages, such as chrome://settings
• Pages that you've visited while you browse privately in Incognito mode
• Pages that have been deleted from your browsing history

Tips:

• If you're signed in to Chrome and sync your history, then your history also shows pages that you've visited on your other devices.
• If you don't want Chrome to save your browsing history, you can browse in Incognito mode.

Find your Chrome history

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More .
3. Select History History.
   • Review history:
     • Enter what you want to find in the search bar .
     • By date .
     • By group .

Tip: If you use a Chromebook at work or school, your network administrator can turn off browsing history. If history is off, your history won't list pages that you've visited. Learn about using a managed Chrome device.

Search your browsing history from the address bar

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the address bar, enter @history.
3. Press Tab or space.
   • In the suggestions, you can also select Search history .
4. Enter keywords for the page that you previously visited.
5. Select the page from the list.

Find your history by group

In the 'by group' tab of your History page, Chrome organizes your browsing and search history into groups. Here, you can easily find your previous browsing activity and continue your research with related searches.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the address bar, enter your search terms.
3. Below your address bar, select Resume browsing.

You can also access the 'By group' view directly from the 'Chrome history' page:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More History History.
3. In the 'By group' tab, you can select the group that you want to review.

Tips:

• To open all pages within a group into a new-tab group, next to the searched item, select More Open all in new tab group.
• At the bottom of the page, you can find suggested searches.

Delete items from your Chrome history

Delete your history and browsing data

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More Delete browsing data.
3. Select how much history you want to delete.
   • To delete everything, select All time.
4. Tick the boxes for the info that you want Chrome to delete, including browsing history. Learn more about the types of browsing data that you can delete.
5. Select Delete data.

Tip: Learn how to delete your search history.

Delete a site from your history

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More History History.
3. Tick the box next to each site that you want to remove from your history.
4. At the top right, select Delete Remove.

Tip: To search for a specific site, at the top, use the search bar.

Remove a shortcut image from the New tab page

To find the sites that you visit most, open a new tab.

To remove a shortcut image:

1. Point to the image that you want to remove.
2. At the top right of the image, select More Remove .

Remove items from your history by groups

Sensitive browsing history may automatically be hidden. You can find these pages through the search box on the History page. For example, if you searched for a health topic and want to revisit that journey, type the health topic into the search box.

You can manually delete a page in a group or all pages in a group.

• To delete a page in a group: Next to the searched item, select More Remove from history.
• To delete all pages in a group: Next to the group, select More Remove all from history.

Tip: Learn more about managing cards for Resume browsing on the New tab page.

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