{"id":163995,"date":"2021-03-08T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=163995"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:11:47","slug":"how-to-clear-history-on-chrome-in-6-simple-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-clear-history-on-chrome-in-6-simple-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Clear History on Chrome in 6 Simple Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all love the convenience of having world-class information available at our fingertips. Chrome is one of many superb browsers you use daily to browse the Web and find whatever you need. You can download Chrome free and fast for <\/span>Android<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>iPhone<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Windows<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Mac.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re the \u201860s or \u201870s baby, you indeed have more awe for technology than most. Understanding what a paper-search entailed is lost to millennials and beyond. That said, it was easier to erase any trace of your research when all you had to do was close the pages of a book. <\/span><\/p>\n

You should leave some online searches in the past, never to be seen again. Yes, we agree. But it\u2019s not the only reason you should learn <\/span>how to clear history on Chrome<\/b>. It also benefits your device security, and it clears up loads of space on your hard drive.<\/span><\/p>\n

How To Clear History on Chrome<\/b><\/h2>\n

Fortunately, you can do it in a few quick steps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Step 1: Open Chrome<\/b><\/h3>\n

You can follow the same steps on PC and mobile. Open your Chrome on whatever device you want to clear the search history.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 2: Click on the \u2018More\u2019 button<\/b><\/h3>\n

The \u2018More\u2019 button is in the top right corner of your screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 3: Go to History<\/b><\/h3>\n

Click on the \u2018History\u2019 button > \u2018History.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 4: Clear data<\/b><\/h3>\n

Now you can navigate to the left and select the \u2018Clear Browsing data\u2019 option.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 5: Select what to delete<\/b><\/h3>\n

You can select how much space you want to clear up by choosing precisely what you want to delete from the history. You can tick every box that you prefer Chrome to clear. Remember also to tick \u2018browsing history\u2019 here.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 6: Finish clearing<\/b><\/h3>\n

You can finish the action by clicking on \u2018Clear data.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gone in a flash!<\/b><\/h3>\n

Just like that your search history is cleared, and you can enjoy a fresh start to building up a search history again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all love the convenience of having world-class information available at our fingertips. Chrome is one of many superb browsers you use daily to browse the Web and find whatever you need. You can download Chrome free and fast for Android, iPhone, Windows, and Mac. If you\u2019re the \u201860s or \u201870s baby, you indeed have … Continue reading “How To Clear History on Chrome in 6 Simple Steps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":180659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2378],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-163995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995","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\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325011,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995\/revisions\/325011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=163995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}