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To clear your history in Safari, click the “History” button at the top, then select “Clear History.” You can also set Safari to clear your browsing history automatically by going to Preferences > General, then set “Delete History Items” to the time period you want.
You may not have anything to hide when we browse the Internet, but you still want to delete your history from time to time. This is how you can clear your browsing history in Safari on MacOS.
In Safari, all you have to do is click the “History” button at the top of the screen and then select “Clear History” at the bottom of the list.
Once you do this, you’ll be given a choice: you can select “last hour,” “today,” “today and yesterday,” and “all history” from a dropdown menu. Once you have decided, click the “Clear History” button and the history will be cleared according to your preference.
If you simply want to clear part of your history, you can click “Show History” (“Command + Y”).
Click on the site or use the “Command” key to select multiple sites, then press the “Delete” key. You can also click “Clear History” in the upper right corner to delete everything at once.
Advice: You can also right-click on a history entry to delete it.
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You can also set Safari to automatically clear your history from time to time. When you open Safari’s preference (“Command +”), click on the “General” tab and select the “Delete History Items” option.
You can decide when or if your history is automatically deleted after one day, one week, two weeks, one month, one year, or you can keep your history indefinitely by selecting the manual option.
How to clear your cookies in Safari
To clear cookies in Safari, while in Safari preferences, click the “Privacy” tab and click “Manage website data.”
On this page, you will see all the cookies stored on your Mac. You can right-click on a specific cookie and select “Delete” to delete it, or you can hold down the “Command” button and select several at once.
If you want to delete all your cookies, click “Delete All” at the bottom of the window.
You will be asked to confirm that you want to “delete all data stored by websites on your computer.”
Note that doing this will remove any websites you’ve customized and sign you out of all websites (although it should be easy to sign back in if you saved your username and password).
RELATED: How to block third-party cookies in all web browsers
Clearing your history and cookies is not necessarily misleading. It’s good to be privacy conscious because there are often times when someone will ask you to use their computer for a minute. You may not be looking at anything disgusting or scandalous, but then again, you don’t necessarily want just anyone to know what you’ve been looking at or reading.
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