{"id":12237,"date":"2010-08-18T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/clearing-market-search-history-on-android\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:11:22","slug":"clearing-market-search-history-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/clearing-market-search-history-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing Market Search History on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/combo.png\" alt=\"combo.png\" width=\"221\" height=\"320\" align=\"left\" \/>Whatever your reason &#8211; risque or not &#8211; you might be looking for a way to <strong>clear your Android Market search history<\/strong>, which gets crowded pretty quickly. Unfortunately, wiping the slate isn&#8217;t as easy as I expected &#8211; there&#8217;s no easy option and even popular old wives&#8217; tales circulating online, such as <strong>clearing the Market cache<\/strong>, just don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a major oversight on Android&#8217;s part, but as far as I can see, there&#8217;s no built-in option. Ironically, it would seem that you have to search for and install a new app to get the job done, and internet sources point to two &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Visit the developer's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidzoom.com\/android_developer\/dumapic_bhow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HistoryEraser<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Visit the developer's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidzoom.com\/android_developer\/dumapic_bhow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MarketSearchEraser<\/a><\/strong> (Android 1.5). Even more extreme, you could try a<strong> factory reset <\/strong>(how to do this depends on the phone, but as usual, Google is your friend!) &#8211; but there will be other consequences, such as data loss.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t feel guilty enough about my searches to bother with new apps, but maybe one or two of you out there will consider it. Let us know how you get on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever your reason &#8211; risque or not &#8211; you might be looking for a way to clear your Android Market search history, which gets crowded pretty quickly. Unfortunately, wiping the slate isn&#8217;t as easy as I expected &#8211; there&#8217;s no easy option and even popular old wives&#8217; tales circulating online, such as clearing the Market &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/clearing-market-search-history-on-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clearing Market Search History on Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334801,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/334801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}