How To See Cached Pages And Files From Your Browser
And decide whether to keep it or not
When you surf the web and run across an issue with loading websites, the advice you’ll hear most is to try to clear your browser cache and delete cookies. Most computer users are familiar with these terms. However, not everybody knows what exactly cached data and cookies are and why you should clear them from time to time.
If you ever wondered what kind of data your browser collects when you search the web, there are a few places where you can look for it. Find out how to see cached pages and files from your browser and decide whether you’d like to keep that data or clear it for good.
What Are Cookies & Browser Cache?
Your browser cache is a location on your computer where the cached web content (or cache) is stored.
Your web browser stores complete or partial copies of the pages you recently viewed together with the media (images, audio, and video) in a file on your computer called the cache. The cached files are temporary files that help the internet pages load quicker. That’s why when you clear your browser cache, you’ll often see that the sites load slower than usual .
Cookies are files that contain small pieces of data associated with the web pages that you visit. They’re stored on your computer while you use your web browser. Their primary purpose is to track your online activity.
Cookies record information like your most recent visit to the website or your login details. That’s the reason why you often have to log into every site all over again after you delete your cookies.
How Does Browser Caching Work?
When you visit a website for the first time, the browser fetches all the data and media from the server.
When you visit the same site again later, the browser retrieves only the HTML page information from the web server.
All the static parts of the page like images or JavaScript files are pulled from the existing browser cache. Since the second time the size of data transferred from the remote web server to your browser is much smaller, your page loads faster.
How To View Cached Pages And Files
In order to see cached pages and files, you first need to locate them. You can’t always see them since the folder where they’re stored may be hidden.
Instructions For Mac
On Mac, the files are stored in the Caches folder in your computer’s Library .
One way to locate the Caches folder is to:
- Open Finder and select Go from the ribbon menu.
- Hold down the Alt (Option) key. You’ll see the Library folder show up in the drop-down menu.
- Find the Caches folder and then your browser’s folder to see all the cached files stored on your computer.
A quicker way to do this is to:
- Open Finder
- Hold Cmd + Shift + G
- Type in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/ like /Users/Anya/Library/Caches/
- Press the Enter key.
- Find your browser’s folder to see the cached files.
Google Chrome’s cached files will be in the Google > Chrome > Default > Cache folder. For Firefox and Opera look for the Firefox and Opera cache folders respectively.
For Safari’s cache , use a different shortcut:
Instructions For Windows
On Windows, the path to locate the browser cache is a little different. For example, for Google Chrome it looks like this:
You can also find Chrome’s cache folder using the Run command .
Access the Run command through the Start menu or using the shortcut Windows key + R . Then copy and paste the following into the command line:
Because all internet browsers are installed on system C drive by default, you can easily see cached pages and files from any browser by following a similar path. Simply search for your browser’s name after following the AppDataLocal path, like AppDataLocalMozillaFirefox , or AppDataLocalMicrosoftEdge .
How To Read The Cached Files
Inside the Cache folder you’ll find files with various extensions and random file names. The difficulty here is that you won’t know exactly what you’re looking at. Most of the names are random and there’s no way to tell the format of the file or where it came from.
You can either click on every file to open it or decode the cached files using special software or a browser extension. One of the best options is to use one of the web browser tools by Nirsoft . For Google Chrome it’s the ChromeCacheView .
After you download the cache viewer, double-click to open the main window. You’ll find the complete list of files stored in the cache of your browser.
Aside from the filename, you’ll see the URL, file type and size, and other properties. You can export a single file or a full list, copy the URLs of your cached files, and extract the files from the cache if you want to save them in another folder.
Unfortunately, Nirsoft utilities run exclusively on Windows. So if you want to use it to decode your cached files on Mac, you’ll have to transfer your entire caches folder onto a Windows machine and then use the software to read your files.
How To View Cookies In Your Browser
Since cookies are responsible for exposing your private details to the web, in most browsers you can find them in the Privacy section of the Settings .
For example, if you want to view cookies in Google Chrome, go to the Chrome ribbon menu and select Preferences . From there, follow the path Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data .
Scroll down and click See all cookies and site data . You’ll get a list of all the cookies stored in your Chrome browser.
Then it’s up to you whether to keep or remove those tracking cookies.
Managing cookies isn’t a difficult task, but it’s important to know how to do it as the process is a little different in each browser.
Time To Clear Your Browser Cache
While keeping your browser cache in place has some advantages, if you don’t clear it regularly you risk this data taking up too much space on your hard drive. That can contribute to your computer’s sluggishness and will require you to take action sooner or later.
Did you ever try to see cached pages and files from your web browser? What method or a shortcut did you use? Share your experience with the browser cache in the comments below.
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How to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad
Wipe away your browsing history in Apple's Safari web browser in seconds.
How to find your web-browsing history
How to clear your web browsing history.
Viewing and wiping your web browsing history on the best iPhones and iPads in Apple's Safari web browser has been an easy task for years.
When you browse the web, a record is always kept of where you've been online, which can be stored on your device for days, weeks, or even months. Most of us don't need to look back on our web browsing, so being able to wipe it on our Apple devices is a straightforward affair.
However, you may be someone who regularly wipes your browsing history so you can make a clean start when you next use Safari. There may be other moments when you're wiping your browsing history so you can hide a surprise birthday present from a friend.
In any case, viewing and wiping your web browsing history on iPhone and iPad is simple, and can be done in minutes. Here's how to do it.
Viewing your web history in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 is very easy to do, here's how:
- In Safari, tap the Bookmarks button in the toolbar that's below the address bar.
- Tap the History icon in the upper right corner. Here, you can view your entire web history.
- Use the History search bar to find previously viewed pages.
If the time calls to wipe most or all of your web browsing history in Safari, here's how to do it on both iPhone and iPad.
To note, the below steps will be the same if you attempt to wipe your web browsing history on an iPhone 15 Pro Max or an iPad Mini 6 , all Apple devices require the same steps.
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- In Safari, tap the Bookmarks button.
- Select the History icon in the upper right corner.
- Tap Clear and select how much history you'd like to clear: the last hour, the last day, 48 hours' worth, or all recorded history.
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Privacy on the web matters more than ever in these modern times. Websites store the pages you click on, especially when you sign into a page that can contain personal information about you.
It's great to have a feature like this in Safari — but it would be good to have this automated as an Apple Intelligence feature in iOS 18 someday. If Apple's web browser could automatically clear history after 24 hours it would be very useful, as you wouldn't leave a trail behind.
Regardless, it's still a good feature, and one you should use every week.
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How to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad
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Knowing how to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on an iPhone or iPad is fundamental for privacy. After all, browsing history comes bundled with web navigation unless you're on Private browsing.
Safari is Apple ’s proprietary web browser, and it offers a simple method to review and delete specific websites from your web history, or all of it. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to access and clear your Safari browsing history on iPhone and iPad.
Additionally, for an incredibly secure browsing experience on iPad, we recommend checking out the best iPad VPN .
- An iPhone or iPad
Steps for how to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad
- Launch Safari.
- On an iPhone, tap the Book icon at the bottom. On an iPad, tap the 'Show Sidebar' button at the top left.
- Select the History tab (Clock icon).
- Tap 'Clear' and select the timeframe.
- Tap 'Clear History'.
Step-by-step guide to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad
We’ve demonstrated the steps below on an iPhone. But the process is nearly the same on the iPad, and we’ve pointed out the differences where relevant.
1. Launch Safari and access History
Open Safari on your iPhone and tap the 'Bookmarks' button at the bottom (beside the tab switcher button).
On iPad, tap the 'Show Sidebar' button at the top left corner.
2. Clear History
Select the History tab (clock icon) to view all your browsing history.
Tap 'Clear' at the bottom right corner to bring up the menu and choose a duration under the 'Clear Timeframe : Last hour , Today , Today and yesterday' , and 'All history' .
To close tabs along with clearing history, toggle on 'Close All Tabs' .
Finally, tap 'Clear History' at the bottom to erase your browsing history.
To delete only specific websites from history, go to the History tab , tap 'Edit' (in the bottom left corner), select the websites you wish to delete, and then tap 'Delete' (bottom right corner).
Clearing your web browsing history in Safari is a straightforward and effective way to boost privacy. But remember that deleting your history removes data that you could easily use to access previously visited websites. If you’d prefer not to save your browsing data, try the Private Browsing Mode on Safari.
For more iPad and iPhone tips, check out our tutorials on how to use and configure a VPN on your iPhone or iPad , how to change your iPhone password or reset it , and how to save, view and manage passwords in Safari .
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- Edit photos and videos
- Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos
- Undo and revert photo edits
- Trim video length, adjust speed, and edit audio
- Edit Cinematic mode videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit portraits
- Make stickers from your photos
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Merge duplicate photos and videos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
- Find podcasts
- Listen to podcasts
- View podcast transcripts
- Follow your favorite podcasts
- Use the Podcasts widget
- Organize your podcast library
- Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
- Subscribe to podcasts
- Listen to subscriber-only content
- Change download settings
- Get started with Reminders
- Set reminders
- Make a grocery list
- Add details
- Complete and remove items
- Edit and organize a list
- Search your lists
- Organize multiple lists
- Use Smart Lists
- Print a list
- Work with templates
- Change Reminders settings
- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- See highlights
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Create multiple Safari profiles
- Open and close tabs
- Organize your tabs with Tab Groups
- View your tabs from another Apple device
- Share Tab Groups
- Use Siri to listen to a webpage
- Bookmark a website
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- Find links shared with you
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- Add earnings reports to your calendar
- Use a Stocks widget
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- Translate text in apps
- Translate with the camera view
- Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, or a channel
- Find shows, movies, and more
- Personalize the Home tab
- Buy, rent, or pre-order items
- Stream content and control playback
- Watch sports
- Manage your library
- Add your TV provider
- Change the settings
- Make a recording
- View a transcription
- Play it back
- Edit or delete a recording
- Keep recordings up to date
- Organize recordings
- Search for or rename a recording
- Share a recording
- Duplicate a recording
- About Apple Wallet
- Set up Apple Pay
- Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
- Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
- Passes, loyalty cards, tickets, and more
- Apple Account
- Organize your Wallet
- Remove payment cards
- Change Wallet & Apple Pay settings
- Check the weather
- Check the weather in other locations
- View weather maps
- Manage weather notifications
- Use Weather widgets
- Learn the weather icons
- Find out what Siri can do
- Tell Siri about yourself
- Have Siri announce calls and notifications
- Add Siri Shortcuts
- About Siri Suggestions
- Use Siri in your car
- Change Siri settings
- Get started with Apple Intelligence
- Use Writing Tools
- Use Apple Intelligence in Mail
- Use Apple Intelligence in Messages
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Get webpage summaries
- Get a summary of a phone call or audio recording
- Use Apple Intelligence in Photos
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Contact emergency services
- Use Emergency SOS via satellite
- Request Roadside Assistance via satellite
- Set up and view your Medical ID
- Use Check In
- Manage Crash Detection
- Reset privacy and security settings in an emergency
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add Family Sharing members
- Remove Family Sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Share purchases
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
- Set up parental controls
- Set up a child’s device
- Get started with Screen Time
- Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
- Set up Screen Time
- Set communication limits and block apps and content
- Check for sensitive images
- Set up Screen Time for a family member
- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
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- Use AirPods
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- Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
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- Pair Magic Keyboard
- Enter characters with diacritical marks
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- Choose an alternative keyboard layout
- Change typing assistance options
- External storage devices
- Connect Bluetooth accessories
- Play audio from your iPhone on a Bluetooth accessory
- Work across devices using Continuity
- Use your iPhone from your Mac
- Receive iPhone Notifications on your Mac
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio from your iPhone
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad and Mac
- Share your internet connection with Personal Hotspot
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans on Mac
- Start SharePlay instantly
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
- Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
- Transfer files or sync content with the Finder or iTunes
- Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Change the map view
- Make phone calls
- View your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Announce incoming text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news stories
- Control your home
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- Change settings in CarPlay
- Get started with accessibility features
- Use accessibility features during setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- Overview of accessibility features for vision
- View a larger version of text you’re reading or typing
- Change display colors
- Make text easier to read
- Reduce onscreen motion
- Use iPhone more comfortably while riding in a vehicle
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
- Adjust CarPlay settings
- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
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- Operate iPhone when VoiceOver is on
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- Use VoiceOver with an external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Get live descriptions of your surroundings
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Overview of accessibility features for mobility
- Use AssistiveTouch
- Adjust how iPhone responds to your touch
- Use Reachability
- Auto-answer calls
- Turn off vibration
- Change Face ID and attention settings
- Use Voice Control
- Use Voice Control commands with CarPlay
- Adjust the side or Home button
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- Adjust pointer settings
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- Control iPhone with an external keyboard
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- Intro to Switch Control
- Set up and turn on Switch Control
- Select items, perform actions, and more
- Control several devices with one switch
- Overview of accessibility features for hearing
- Use hearing devices
- Use Live Listen
- Use sound recognition
- Set up and use RTT and TTY
- Flash the indicator light for notifications
- Adjust audio settings
- Play background sounds
- Display subtitles and captions
- Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
- Get live captions of spoken audio
- Play music as taps, textures, and more
- Get notified about car horns and sirens in CarPlay
- Overview of accessibility features for speech
- Type to speak
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- Overview of cognitive accessibility features
- Lock iPhone to one app
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- Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
- Control access to hardware features
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
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- Use a private network address
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Clear your cache and cookies on iPhone
You can erase your browsing history and data to clear the cache on your iPhone. This action removes the history of websites you visited and recent searches from your iPhone. This process also removes the cookies and permissions you granted to websites to use your location or send you notifications.
Note: Clearing your browsing history in Safari doesn’t clear any browsing histories kept independently by websites you visited, or your browsing history in other apps.
Below Clear Timeframe, choose how much of your browsing history to clear.
Note: If you have Safari profiles set up, select a profile to clear only the history of that profile, or select All Profiles.
Tap Clear History.
- Clear Safari cache on Mac
- Clear Safari cache on iPhone or iPad
- How to save passwords when clearing your cache
How to clear your Safari browser cache on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad
- You can clear your cache on Safari in just a few steps on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
- Clearing your cache, as well as history and cookies, can help resolve your device's performance issues.
- Clearing your cookies will clear your passwords as well, unless you save them with keychain.
A cache is a store of data. When you visit a website on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad, the Safari browser keeps a snapshot of the pages you view.
If you go back to that website, Safari loads the cached page in an instant, instead of taking the time to retrieve the page from the internet again.
But an overloaded cache can take up storage space and cause your device to run inefficiently — and it could use a periodic clearing.
Here's what you need to know to clear your cache on Safari, as well as your cookies and browsing history.
How to clear Safari cache on Mac
You can either clear just your cache or your cache, history, and cookies.
Clear your cache
1. Click on the Safari tab at the top left of your screen and choose Preferences from the dropdown menu.
2. Click the Advanced tab of the menu that pops up.
3. At the end of the tab, select the Show Develop menu in menu bar box and close the Preferences menu.
4. Click the Develop tab from the Safari menu at the top of the page.
5. Click Empty Caches from the dropdown menu.
Clear your cache, history, and cookies
You may also want to clear your browsing history and cookies in addition to emptying your cache. Here's how to do that.
1. Choose the History tab at the top of your screen.
2. At the very bottom of the dropdown menu, choose Clear History.
3. A box pops up with a choice to clear the last hour, today, today and yesterday, or all history. Choose your time frame and click the Clear History button.
Once you clear the history, it will also clear the cache and cookies associated with that time period.
How to clear Safari cache on iPhone or iPad
To clear your cache and browsing history:
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Safari .
3. Tap Clear History and Website Data .
4. On the screen that pops up, choose Clear History and Data .
To clear your cache but not your browsing history:
3. Tap Advanced .
4. Tap Website Data .
5. Choose Remove All Website Data .
What happens to saved passwords when you clear your cache
When you clear your cache, history, and cookies, you may discover that Safari has logged you out of your favorite websites.
While clearing Safari's cache alone will not delete your passwords, clearing your history and cookies can. That's because when you empty your cookies, you will lose their password data saved in Safari as well. And keep in mind that clearing your history also clears its associated cookies.
Luckily, Apple has a solution to this problem. If you use iCloud, check your iCloud settings on your phone or computer.
Make sure that you've checked the box for Safari. As long as this box is checked, any passwords you save through your browser will stay safe in your keychain .
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How to clear Safari’s cache and cookies on Mac
There are a handful of situations when clearing Safari’s cookies or cache–one of the places where Safari stores website data to avoid having to download it afresh each time you access a site–can help improve your browsing experience.
The first is when websites simply stop working when you access them on Safari. Perhaps Facebook stops updating with new posts, for example, or the images on a site don’t appear as they should. If this happens, it’s likely the cache has become corrupted.
Alternatively, if you find that personal info automatically completed on sites isn’t correct, deleting cookies can help. These are small files that sites use to save data about you and what you do on the site.
Even if none of these problems affect you, periodically cleaning browser data can help protect your privacy from snoops who want to discover what you’ve been up to online. In this article, therefore, we explain how to clear Safari’s cache and cookies on Mac.
We also have an article that explains How to clear cache on a Mac.
How to clear Safari cookies and cache for websites
Cleaning cookies and the cache data for individual sites can be done via Safari’s Settings/Preferences.
- Open Safari
- Click on Safari in the menu at the top of the screen.
- Click on Settings or Preferences (depending on the version of macOS you are running).
- Go to the Privacy tab.
- Click on Manage Website Data…
- Choose Remove All or select websites individually to remove.
After the data is loaded you’ll probably see a long list of websites. You can choose to Remove All or just select individual websites you want to remove from this list. If you want to select a number of different sites you can click on one and then press and hold the Command key to select a second, third or fourth and so on. We recommend that you don’t select hundreds this way – it’s better to delete in batches just in case you have to start over.
If you would prefer to select all and then deselect the ones you want to keep you can do so. Use Command + A to select all, then press and hold Command while clicking on any website you are happy to keep in this list. Just click Remove afterwards, not Done, as that will just undo all your hard work.
There’s a search field you can use to track down individual sites.
Bear in mind that deleting cookies might remove autocompleted login usernames and passwords for sites, and will almost certainly log you out of that site if you’ve configured it to automatically log in each time you visit.
How to clear Safari cache
The hidden Safari Developer menu can be used to clear just the cache, leaving cookies and the browser history in place. This is a very useful diagnostic step to take before removing those two items if a website behaves badly.
If you just want to clear all your cache you can do so by following these steps:
- Open Safari.
- Click on Safari in menu bar at top of screen.
- Click on Settings/Preferences (depending on the version of macOS you are running).
- Click on the Advanced tab.
- Check the box beside Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar.
- Now there will be a new Develop tab in the menu at the top of your screen. Click on this.
- Click on Empty Caches.
Alternatively click on Option/Alt + Command + E.
Close any open Safari windows and select Empty Caches on the Develop menu. Then click File > New Window to start Safari with a clean cache.
How to remove autocomplete data from AutoFill
Safari’s AutoFill tool can fill in username and password details on websites as well as credit card details and other elements like your address and email details.
This can be really useful, but it can also be annoying if the data it fills in is incorrect or out of context. It’s also a problem when AutoFill helpfully enters old or incorrect passwords or emails and addresses.
You can change this data, or delete it by following these steps:
- Click on Safari.
- Click on Settings/Preferences.
- Choose the AutoFill tab.
- Here you can edit contact information, usernames and passwords, credit cards and other data. Click on Edit beside the category you want access to.
- You’ll need to enter your password or use Touch ID to gain access.
Delete incorrect data: If you are finding that Safari is autofilling incorrect data about you–your address, for example–click Edit beside Using information from my contacts. This will open up your Contacts app. Your card will be at the top or under My Card. You can add and amend data about you here.
Delete incorrect passwords and site logins: If you wanted to delete incorrect passwords, for example, you can just click on the Passwords tab. If you know which password you want to remove search for the website or service and then find the older password option (if there is more than one) and select it and then click on the – below the column to remove it. You can then select Delete Password. If that means there is no password saved for that website, you can then recreate the entry for the site by clicking the Add button. You’ll first need to provide the URL of the site (that is, something like https://facebook.com ), and then type the username and password alongside (hit the Tab key to move from field to field).
See: How to autofill passwords, bank cards, names and addresses for more.
Delete logins and passwords system-wide
Pruning site logins can also be done via the Keychain Access app, which you’ll find in the Utilities folder of the Applications list in Finder, although you should be very careful using this app because it pretty much controls the entire security operation of your Mac! However, by removing errant username and password entries here you’ll stop virtually all of your Mac apps using them, and not just Safari.
Just type the name of the site into the Search field, and look in the list of results for entries of the kind Web Form Password. Right-click the entry and select Delete.
If you want to delete your Chrome or Firefox cache, cookies or browsing history read: How to delete your Mac browsing history . For alternative web browsers take a look at: Best web browser for Mac.
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How to clear the cache in Safari on Mac and iPhone - and what it does
Like every web browser, Safari stores data on your Mac , iPhone , and iPad , with the express purpose of speeding up your online life. You may have the kind of internet speed that Apple Park takes for granted, but even so, it's better to spend that speed where it's needed.
So when you revisit a website, Safari makes it so that as far as possible, you only need to download what has changed. Even with a news site that is being updated all day, the basic layout, the furniture of the page, doesn't change all that often, so Safari might as well download it once.
Behind the scenes, then, whenever you ask Safari to go to a site, it goes there with half an eye on what elements of the site it has already stored on your device. Then it will load up anything it can from your device, because retrieving locally stored data is always faster than downloading it.
No question, a Safari cache is a good thing. Except when it isn't.
When you should clear Safari's cache
It's possible for things to go wrong. If Safari doesn't appear to be loading a site, it could be that there's some data corruption in the cache.
Or it could be simply that you are tight on space and all of this invisibly stored cache data is taking up a lot of room. When you're particularly low on space, you know it, too, because your device runs noticeably slower.
So if you are having problems any time you're browsing the web on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, clearing the cache is at the very least a good first troubleshooting step.
You don't want to inadvertently introduce new problems or inconveniences, though. And clearing caches could also remove passwords that you thought Safari was saving for you.
So before you empty the cache, make sure that Safari is saving those passwords. On the Mac, go to System Preferences, click on Apple ID , then iCloud .
Or on iOS, open Settings , tap on your name at the top, then iCloud .
In either case, then check that Safari is turned on. With the Mac, that means a tick box is on, and with iOS, it means the slider button is turned on and showing green.
How to clear the cache in Safari on Mac
- Launch Safari
- Click on the Safari menu at top left
- Choose Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Tick the Show Develop menu in menu bar to set it to on
- Close the Preferences window, and open the Develop menu
- Choose Empty Caches
There is no OK button, and then no visible confirmation that the caches have been cleared. But they have been.
How to clear the cache in Safari on iPhone and iPad
- Open Settings
- Scroll down to Safari and tap
- Choose Clear History and Website Data
- Confirm by tapping the new Clear History and Data button that pops up
Unlike with the Mac, there is a visible indication that the cache has been cleared. The option for Clear History and Website Data is greyed out and unavailable.
Note that it won't stay unavailable. It is immediately available the moment you do anything more in Safari.
What happens next
Once you have cleared the cache, you will typically find that some site loading problems are resolved. You'll also find that your device runs faster.
Except, of course, the next time you browse to a website, it will load a little slower than you're used to. But that will speed up again - once Safari has once more cached the site.
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For Safari’s cache, use a different shortcut: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/. Instructions For Windows. On Windows, the path to locate the browser cache is a little different. For example, for Google Chrome it looks like this: C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultCache.
Go to Settings > Apps > Safari. Tap Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies, and browsing data from Safari won't change your AutoFill information. When there's no history or website data to clear, the button to clear it turns gray.
Viewing your web history in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 is very easy to do, here's how: In Safari, tap the Bookmarks button in the toolbar that's below the address bar. Tap the History icon in the upper right corner. Here, you can view your entire web history.
Find out how to delete your history, cookies and cache in Settings. Delete your history, cache and cookies. Clear your cookies and the cache, but keep your history. Delete a website from your history. Block cookies. Use content blockers.
1. Launch Safari and access History. (Image: © Future) Open Safari on your iPhone and tap the 'Bookmarks' button at the bottom (beside the tab switcher button). On iPad, tap the 'Show...
Learn how to erase your browsing history to clear the cache in Safari on iPhone.
To clear your cache but not your browsing history: 1. Open the Settings app. 2. Tap Safari. 3. Tap Advanced. 4. Tap Website Data. 5. Choose Remove All Website Data.
For peace of mind and a better web browsing experience, you can clear your Safari cookies and cache. Here's how to clear Safari cache in macOS, and how to clear cookies too.
Safari's cache makes browsing quicker, but it can go wrong, it can slow down your Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and it can take up a lot of storage space too. Here's how and when to clear it.
Here are the steps to clear cache in Safari on iPhone: From your Home Screen, locate and tap the Settings app. Scroll down and tap on Safari. Scroll down within Safari’s settings and click on the Clear History and Website Data option. A prompt appears, then click on the Clear History and Data option to clear your browsing data; if you choose ...