How To Clear Search History On Mac – Safari, Chrome, and Firefox

admin, How To , August 24th, 2022 , 0

If you have been using Mac for a while, you are aware of how to clear search history on Mac. And, to be honest, it is a good practice to clear search history, cache, and cookies from Safari and other browsers on Mac. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the best ways to clear search history on Mac. We already have an in-depth post on how to delete cache on Mac; you can also check it out.

A Little About Search or Browsing History

While this post talks about the ways to clear search history, cache, and cookies on Mac, let’s get a basic idea of what it is. Whenever you visit a website, your browser remembers every page you visited. The searches you have made appear in your browser and can be used when, for instance, you want to visit a website you had seen a long-time back.

So, what is the need to delete search or browsing history?

Why Might You Need To Remove Browsing History from Mac?

For reasons more than one, you may want to clear your search history on Mac, especially if you share your Mac with your family, friends, or colleagues. Not just that, you might also want to clear cache and cookies on Mac.

• Remove business-related searches that you don’t want your colleagues to see.
• Delete personal data that websites may use to bombard you with ads.
• Remove searches that you want to hide from your family or friends, which may otherwise occur as auto-suggestions and may prove to be embarrassing for you.
• Get rid of issues occurring because websites might load obsolete data.

Use CleanMyMac X

Clearing search history on Mac is easy, but things can be troublesome if you use multiple web browsers and want to clear search history, cache, and cookies from all browsers in one place. Here, you can take the help of a Mac cleaner like CleanMyMac X. To dive deeper into the tool, you can refer to our review of CleanMyMac X. Here’s how you can delete searches, cache, and cookies from various browsers on your Mac using CleanMyMac X –

1. Download, install and run CleanMyMac X.

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2. From the left-hand side, under Protection, click on Privacy.

3. Select the Browser whose browsing history, download history, cache, and cookies you want to remove.

4. Click on the Remove button.

How To Clear Search History from Mac Browsers Manually

1. Safari

As a Mac user, Safari might be your go-to browser. First, let’s see how you can clear the complete search history from Safari in a way that no trace will be left –

1. Launch Safari

2. Click on the History from the top and click Show History.

3. Select Clear History.

4. From the time range, select All history.

5. Click on Clear History

How To Delete Specific Pages From History

Maybe there are specific pages that you want to remove.  So, here’s how you can delete specific pages from history –

1. Click on History from the top.

2. Click on Show All History.

3. Locate the page that you want to remove. You can even take the help of the search field as well.

4. Select pages you want to remove by holding down the Ctrl key

5. Click on the Delete option

2. Chrome

Chrome is yet another browser that many people use on Mac. However, as a prudent Mac user, you may not want Google to collect your browsing data. So, in that effort, here is how you can clear Chrome search history –

1. Open Chrome

2. In the Chrome search bar type chrome://history/

3. From the left-hand side, click on Clear browsing data.

4. Click on Clear Data

How To Delete Specific Pages From History

1. Open Chrome, and click on the three dots from the top right.

2. Click on History and again click on History.

3. Select the box next to the page that you want to delete.

4. Click on Delete from the top-right to confirm.

3. Firefox

Firefox is yet another popular browser used by Mac users for browsing websites. Here is how you can view and clear search history on Firefox –

1. Open Safari.

2. Click on the menu.

3. Select Clear History

4. From the dropdown, choose an option and click on Clear History.

Wrapping Up

We recommend that you clear your Mac’s browsing history once in a while, especially if you share your Mac with others. By deleting history on Mac’s Safari and other web browsers and removing cache and cookies, you can safeguard your digital footprint from being misused. If you liked the blog, give it a thumbs up and for more such content, keep reading BestMacCleaner.