In this brief tutorial I’ll show you how to clear the browsing history, the Safari cache and cookie files in Safari for the iPad.
We’ve got the steps for both “types” of clearing your browsing data – you can delete all of the stored website data (browsing history, cache and cookies) at once, or you can delete that website data on a site by site basis.
Clear All Website Data from Safari (iPad)
- Select Settings from your iPad home screen.
- Choose Safari from the Settings column on the left.
- Look for the section named PRIVACY & SECURITY and then tap the button inside of it titled Clear History and Website Data
- Confirm you want to delete your browsing history and related files by tapping the Clear button.
- That’s it!
Clear Specific Website Data from Safari (iPad)
- Select Settings from your iPad home screen.
- Choose Safari from the Settings column on the left.
- Scroll way down until you find the Advanced button and give it a tap.
- Select Website Data from the Advanced section.
- Here you’ll find a list of all the sites that you’ve visited on your iPad. To remove a specific site (or sites), tap the Edit button located towards the upper-right corner of the window.
- Now tap the “minus sign” red button button (see screenshot below) next to the site you want to clear. Note: some sites will actually have data stored across multiple domains. For example, in the screenshot below you can see facebook.net listed, but if you want to clear all of the Facebook info from your iPad, you’d also need to delete fbcdn.net since that’s the part of Facebook where things like image files are stored. That’s why sometimes it’s best to just delete all of the stored website data on your iPad – just to make sure you’ve really cleared everything you want deleted.
- Each time you select a site to delete you’ll be prompted to confirm it – tap the Clear button in each case.
Now that you know how to clear the cache etc for Safari on your iPad, why not learn how to clear the website data from all of your other devices.