Every time you use a web browser, it leaves a legacy Track in the form of history of pages viewedwhere you will find the addresses of all visited websites, except for those that were visited using the browser's private mode and manually deleted from the history.
Although this is not a problem if we are the only users of the device, in the case of a computer or company phone, the situation changes dramatically. then We want to maintain privacy and don't want anyone to be able to easily know which websites we've viewed. Therefore, it is useful to know where the history of viewed pages is located on your computer and phone, so that you can quickly and permanently clear it if necessary.
To find the history of websites viewed on Android and iOS phones, open the app Chrome, then click More (three dots in the upper right corner) and history. If the address bar is at the bottom, swipe up on the address bar and tap History.
However, if we use a browser on Apple devices Safari, launch this application and then click on the book icon in the bottom bar of the browser. Then we choose “History” and we can view all the pages that were viewed on the iPhone or iPad.
Location history of pages viewed on your computer It varies slightly depending on the browser used, But the vast majority of Internet users use it Google Chrome. In this case, launch the browser and click on the More button (three dots) in the upper right corner, then Date and Date again if you want to see the exact list of dates.
In the browser Mozilla Firefox Click the application menu (three horizontal lines) in the upper right corner, then History and History Management, then click Microsoft Edge More button (three dots) in the upper right corner, then the “History” button and again “More” (three dots) if we want to see the list of pages.
If we do not want information about the websites we visit to remain saved on the device, We can delete all or some of your browsing history. When you use Chrome, your browsing history will be deleted on all devices where you're signed in to Chrome and your history will be synced to your Google Account. Moreover, users also have the option to delete Google search history from their account.
How to delete history on computer? Open Chrome, click “More” in the upper right corner, then “History” and “History” again. Here we can either delete individual addresses visited or click on the left side Clear browsing data to specify the period we want to delete or delete everything from the beginning, specifying the type of information we want to delete, i.e. history, cookies, images and files in the cache. For memory, login passwords, autofill data, etc. After selecting all the options, click on Clear data and that's it.
On Android phone and Chrome browser, the procedure is the sameFor iOS and Safari on iPhone and iPad, select Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies, and browsing data in Safari won't change the data you automatically fill in forms. Here we also have the option to delete individual bookmarks, i.e. open Safari, click Show bookmarks, then History. Here we click on the “Edit” button and then select the site or sites that we want to remove from the history.
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