How to Clear Browsing History iPhone 6 Items

When you are using the default browsing mode in Safari on your iPhone, then the pages you visit will be saved to your history, and may even show up on the new tab page.

If there is a site that you are visiting a lot, such as when making your own Google Sites option, then you might be wondering how to clear browsing history iPhone 6 data because it’s appearing on the new tab page.

You can also watch this video about how to clear cache on iPhone for additional information on this topic.

How to Delete a Page You’ve Visited on the Safari New Tab Page

  1. Open Safari.
  2. Touch the Tabs button.
  3. Tap the + icon.
  4. Tap and hold on to a site to remove.
  5. Touch Delete.

The Safari browser on your iPhone stores data about sites that you have visited.

Once you have built up a bit of browsing history in Safari, then it will start to display icons for sites that you frequently visit.

This is meant to serve as a simple way to access the Web pages that your device thinks you are most likely to view.

But you may not like to have certain web pages display in this manner, and you might be wondering how to delete certain pages from this location.

Our guide below will show you how to clear browsing history iPhone 6 methods that you can use to remove sites that are appearing in various locations in Safari.

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How to Clear iPhone 6 Browsing Data

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Select Safari.
  3. Tap Clear History and Website Data.
  4. Touch Clear History and Data to confirm.

Note that once you follow these steps you will delete your entire browsing history, as well as cookies and cache.

This means that you will need to sign back into accounts on sites that you visit, and any items that you have saved to a shopping cart will probably be gone.

Our guide continues below with more how to clear browsing history iPhone 6 methods you can use.

Related: Check out our how to remove frequently visited on iPhone guide if you would like to remove that section from Safari.

Deleting Sites from the Frequently Visited Section in iOS 8 (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8.

Note that this guide is specifically referencing the website icons that appear under the Frequently Visited section when you go to open a new tab in Safari. If you wish to clear your cookies or history in Safari, then read this article instead.

Frequently visited sites will continue to appear in this location, even after you delete them individually, or after you delete your cookies and website data, if you continue to visit those sites. The alternative is to use private browsing mode instead.

Step 1: Open the Safari browser.

open safari

Step 2: Tap the Tabs icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen. if you do not see it, then you may need to swipe down on your screen.

open the tabs screen

Step 3: Tap the + icon at the bottom of the screen.

Note that you can start a private browsing session by selecting the Private option at the bottom-left corner of this screen.

tap the + icon

Step 4: Tap and hold the icon of the website that you wish to remove from the Frequently Visited section until the icon expands, then let go of it and tap the Delete button.

how to clear browsing history iphone 6

Note that after you have deleted some of the sites from this screen, other sites may take their place.

In order to prevent this from occurring, you will need to continue deleting sites individually, or you will need to delete all of your browsing cookies and data with the steps in this article.

If you would like to go back to a Web page that you visited in the past, then our guide on how to check history on iPhone will show you how.

One way to combat sites from appearing in this section is to use private browsing.

When you are in private browsing mode in Safari, your device will not remember the pages that you have visited after you close out of the private browsing session.

Click here to learn how to exit private browsing in iOS 8, otherwise the pages from your private browsing session will still be open the next time you switch back to it.

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