How to clear the cache, history and cookies in Safari for iPad

by Ross McKillop on April 5, 2010

iPad Safari

In this brief tutorial I’ll show you how to clear the browsing history, the Safari cache and cookie files in Safari for the iPad.

  1. Select Settings from your iPad home screen.

    2. the settings icon on the ipad home screen

  2. Select Safari from the Settings column on the left. Towards the bottom of the Safari column you’ll see 3 buttons – Clear History, Clear Cookies and Clear Cache. Tap any of the 3 to perform that action.

    3. safari preferences for the ipad
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  3. You’ll be prompted with a confirmation window. Tap the Clear button.

    4. confirmation on clearing safari on the ipad

  4. Repeat the above steps until each item (cache, history and cookies) have been cleared.

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  • Kevin

    Doesn’t work. You can still arrow back through history after clearing the history in the “settings” menu.

  • John smith

    And also clear the Trash can in Mail. Or else have one delete function. Why do we have to delete each message twice?

  • Matt Taylor

    How do you clear email address history? When i compose an email and start typing in email address I get old email addresses popping up as an option to choose and it drives me crazy. Plus its the email addresses of my old girlfriend who I havent emailed in ages!! My new girlfriend thinks I saved it in my contactsbwhen in didn’t!

    Deleting email account doesn’t work!!! Clearing safari cache is not related to email and doesn’t work either. Apple ipad seems to have an additional cache or cookies for just email. application and there appears to be no way to clear it!

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  • http://Google Alina

    I had try 2 clear the history in my iPad as I’ve seen here but it’s not working it’s still there!

  • Charles

    After you clear the cache and the history in settings, turn the iPad off and on again and they are cleared.

    I wish this were unnecessary,

  • Jennifer

    Matt, according to Apple, there is no way to stop the old email addresses from coming up, unless you restore to a point before you ever used that email address. Apparently, it’s because of the auto complete function and they say there is no way to turn that off. You can go to the Apple website and submit suggestions, which I did. It would help if more than one person made the same suggestions. According to the tech people at Apple, they really use these suggestions to make changes and improvements to software updates. Maybe if we all submit these ideas we’ll see a change on the next software release.

  • Ann

    I sure hope this works cuz if it doesn’t, I will b stuck with embarrassing stuff!

  • Monique

    Hallo,
    Wat indien ik niet alle Cookies wenst te wissen, maar selectief?
    Soms is het nuttig om bepaalde Cookies veilig te stellen en dat je dan beter deze niet wist.
    Bestaat hier een werkwijze voor?

  • brent

    if our daughter clears the history,is there anywat we can track what shes been doing?
    shes 17 and getting herself in trouble.

    thank you in advance

  • http://RonaldHuck223@patriotactionnetwork.com R. Huckstep

    (How do you clear email address history? When i compose an email and start typing in email address I get old email addresses popping up as an option to choose and it drives me crazy. Plus its the email addresses of my old girlfriend who I havent emailed in ages!! My new girlfriend thinks I saved it in my contactsbwhen in didn’t!

    Deleting email account doesn’t work!!! Clearing safari cache is not related to email and doesn’t work either. Apple ipad seems to have an additional cache or cookies for just email. application and there appears to be no way to clear it!)

    I found that if you go thru old deleted emails and deleted the deleted files it will get rid of old auto fill addresses! Good luck!

  • S Magill

    How come my iPad2 only displays Clear History, Clear Cookies and Data ….clear cache?

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  • Ernesto Martinez

    Why do we have to go to a forum to try and get an answer hoping that one of my compratiates will have the correct answer. Some times there are several people waiting for the same answer. We pay goodmoney, where is the coustomer service?
    I am getting disgusted with the new piece of crap. I’m sorry to say that I have been a Mac driver since 1961. I now have a new complaint fat fingers.

  • http://www.simplehelp.net/ Ross McKillop

    As soon as I get my hands on an iPad 2, I’ll update the tutorial accordingly. Thanks!