Each time you browse the internet, the sites you visit are left stored on your computer.
This function is very useful to be able to resume an interesting site that was not saved in your favorites or to retrieve news read and videos seen previously, but it can also be a problem for privacy.
Therefore, if someone takes our computer or mobile phone in their hands, in fact, they will have the opportunity to open their web browser and easily find all the sites visited in the past days, perhaps discovering our personal secrets that we would not like to make known.
Clearing history is also a way to free up space on your computer's disk and in the memory of a smartphone.
Especially for those who use a shared computer and for those who have a mobile phone at hand of family and friends, it is advisable to know how to delete the list of sites visited from the browser history on computer and mobile phone .
Below we see how to see and empty the history of the most popular browsers namely Chrome, Firefox, Safari (for Mac) and Microsoft Edge (Windows 10).
Clear history from Chrome
Press the menu button at the top right, the one with three dots, go to Other Tools> Clear browsing data .
In the window that appears you can choose whether to delete all the data or only those starting from a certain day, for example those of today if I have visited sites that I want to keep hidden from everyone.
You can then select the items to be removed from the computer, including stored images, cookies and passwords.
NOTE: If you use Chrome with a Google account synchronized on other devices, the deletion of data from a computer is also reflected on other PCs or cellphones used with the same account, because the history is shared.
This applies to Chrome and also to Firefox (Mozilla account), Safari (with Apple account) and with Edge (Microsoft account)
Delete sites visited in Firefox
Press the menu button at the top right with three lines, then click on Options and go to the Privacy tab and click on the link to clear the recent history.
If this link does not appear, make sure you have selected the option to always save the history.
The screen for choosing what to delete is almost identical to that of Chrome, with the selection of the elements and the time interval.
Delete sites on Safari for Mac
Open the Safari menu > Clear history at the top left to find the screen for selecting the items to be deleted and the time interval.
Clear sites visited with Edge in Windows 10
Press the button with three dots at the top right, go to Settings and then on the Choose items to delete button, under " Clear exploration data ".
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To delete Chrome history on Android and iPhone
Open the Chrome app, touch the three dots button at the top to bring up the menu, go to Settings> Privacy, scroll down to find the button that clears browsing data, with the same type of Chrome screen to PC.
To delete the sites visited with Safari on iPhone (and iPad)
Open iPhone Settings (the gear icon on the central screen), then scroll towards the Safari item and find, at the bottom of the list, the button that deletes the history.
The same option can also be found on Safari, by touching the favorites icon, where you can also view and clear the history.
In another article we saw how to see the history of searches on Google and the sites visited, where there are also options to Clear the Google history .
READ ALSO: How to block the saving of the visited sites in the browser history
This function is very useful to be able to resume an interesting site that was not saved in your favorites or to retrieve news read and videos seen previously, but it can also be a problem for privacy.
Therefore, if someone takes our computer or mobile phone in their hands, in fact, they will have the opportunity to open their web browser and easily find all the sites visited in the past days, perhaps discovering our personal secrets that we would not like to make known.
Clearing history is also a way to free up space on your computer's disk and in the memory of a smartphone.
Especially for those who use a shared computer and for those who have a mobile phone at hand of family and friends, it is advisable to know how to delete the list of sites visited from the browser history on computer and mobile phone .
Delete sites visited on computers (Windows, Mac or Linux)
Depending on the browser used routinely, the procedure for deleting the sites visited may be different.Below we see how to see and empty the history of the most popular browsers namely Chrome, Firefox, Safari (for Mac) and Microsoft Edge (Windows 10).
Clear history from Chrome
Press the menu button at the top right, the one with three dots, go to Other Tools> Clear browsing data .
In the window that appears you can choose whether to delete all the data or only those starting from a certain day, for example those of today if I have visited sites that I want to keep hidden from everyone.
You can then select the items to be removed from the computer, including stored images, cookies and passwords.
NOTE: If you use Chrome with a Google account synchronized on other devices, the deletion of data from a computer is also reflected on other PCs or cellphones used with the same account, because the history is shared.
This applies to Chrome and also to Firefox (Mozilla account), Safari (with Apple account) and with Edge (Microsoft account)
Delete sites visited in Firefox
Press the menu button at the top right with three lines, then click on Options and go to the Privacy tab and click on the link to clear the recent history.
If this link does not appear, make sure you have selected the option to always save the history.
The screen for choosing what to delete is almost identical to that of Chrome, with the selection of the elements and the time interval.
Delete sites on Safari for Mac
Open the Safari menu > Clear history at the top left to find the screen for selecting the items to be deleted and the time interval.
Clear sites visited with Edge in Windows 10
Press the button with three dots at the top right, go to Settings and then on the Choose items to delete button, under " Clear exploration data ".
READ ALSO: Clear history on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Internet Explorer
Delete sites visited on Android and iPhone mobiles and smartphones
Regarding mobile browsers, in this guide we see the most used ones, namely Chrome and Safari for iPhone.To delete Chrome history on Android and iPhone
Open the Chrome app, touch the three dots button at the top to bring up the menu, go to Settings> Privacy, scroll down to find the button that clears browsing data, with the same type of Chrome screen to PC.
To delete the sites visited with Safari on iPhone (and iPad)
Open iPhone Settings (the gear icon on the central screen), then scroll towards the Safari item and find, at the bottom of the list, the button that deletes the history.
The same option can also be found on Safari, by touching the favorites icon, where you can also view and clear the history.
Delete visited sites saved by Google
In the event that we use surfing the internet with a linked Google or Gmail account, it is important to keep in mind that Google itself stores the sites visited on a special page of the account.In another article we saw how to see the history of searches on Google and the sites visited, where there are also options to Clear the Google history .
READ ALSO: How to block the saving of the visited sites in the browser history
