How to Clear Safari History, Cache, and Cookies on iPad

If you use Safari to visit websites everyday on your iPad, then you would know that Safari keeps track of not just the websites you visit but also their data, including website data, your personal Apple ID/iCloud account, username, password and more. Once your iPad lost or stolen, your personal information will be possibly leaked out. Therefore, clearing history, caches and cookies in Safari on your iPad is extremely needed.

When it comes to clearing history iPad, you may have simple & quick tips like directly deleting on Safari app or from Settings app on your iPad. In this post, except for these feasible methods, we also show you a professional iOS cleaner to help you clear safari history on iPad comprehensively.

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Part 1. How to Clear Safari History on iPad via Safari App

Open Safari app > Click bookmark icon that looks like one opened book on the bottom of your screen > Go to History option > Swipe to delete any items you want or remove all of them in 1-click.

Part 2. How to Clear Safari History on iPad via Settings App

Open up the Settings icon on your iPad Homecreen > Scroll down on the lefthand side until you find an entry for Safari > Click it > Scroll down on Clear History and Website data.

Warm Reminder: Although the 2 methods above enable to delete Safari history on your iPad, they may have no ability to clear all caches, cookies on your iPad. To help you make a full cleaning on your iPad, you may just try PhoneClean – a professional iOS cleaner.

Part 3. How to Clear Safari History on iPad via PhoneClean

If you want a reliable method to clear history on your iPad fully, PhoneClean is your smart choice. Because it is one of top iPad history clearance software and has the priority to erase caches, data and histories on your iPad. With it, you can delete the junk files like app caches, app cookies, crash logs, temp files, etc. and the private data files like covering browsing history and Safari history, call history, messages, etc. Simply download PhoneClean on your Mac/PC and follow the steps bellow:

Step 1. Open PhoneClean on your computer > Connect your iPad with the computer > Click Scan button to go ahead.

Step 2. After a while, you can select safari junks to preview the details > Select the exact or all histories on your iPad > Go back by clicking "Back".

Step 3. Click "Clean" button to remove the chosen items.

Part 4. How to Recover Mistakenly Deleted History on iPad

It may often happen that you mistakenly deleted important histories on your iPad while making a clearance. You can recover them on the condition that you've made backups of your iPad. Or you have to turn to the professional iOS data recovery software – PhoneRescue, which enables to recover deleted history from iPad without any backup. Download PhoneRescue and have a try now >>

Part 5. More Tips Related to Safari History on iPad

1．Check and view Safari history on your iPad: launch Safari app > Tap and hold the back button located on the bottom left of the iPad screen > Safari browser history will then appear.

2. Manage browsing history on your iPad: Tap on the Settings icon on the Home screen > Choose Safari Option from the left side of the settings screen > Tap "Clear History" to clear your Internet history.

3. Adjust Options in Settings to Keep Your Safari Web Surfing Private: Open Settings on your iPad > Tap the iCloud option from the main Settings menu > Turn off the virtual switches associated with Safari and Keychain.