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Do you need to check your Safari browser history? In a few simple steps, you can easily view all the websites you accessed in the past. You can also search for specific websites in your history and clear any website data you don't want. This wikiHow will teach you how to view and delete your Safari history on iPhone, iPad, and macOS.

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• On iPhone, you can click the book icon, then the clock icon to find your Safari history.
• On macOS, you can click the "History" tab, then "Show History".
• You can search for specific websites and clear your history data.

• If needed, you can change your General Settings .

• If you're signed in with the same Apple ID to you use to log into your Mac, your Mac's Safari history will appear in this list as well.

• You may have to swipe down on the History page to find it.
• The results will load as you type.

• You can also swipe left on individual websites in your history, then click Delete .

• Be sure to update Safari.

• If you're logged into the computer with the same Apple ID you use on your iPhone or iPad, you'll also see sites you've visited on those devices.

• A list of matching results from your history will appear. Click a site to load it in Safari.

• Select a time frame from the drop-down menu, then click Clear History .
• You can also delete cookies from Safari .

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How to Check and Search Safari History on Mac

Browsing history is one of the essential features of Safari that keeps a detailed record of your online activity, allowing you to quickly access previously visited websites and track your digital footprint. Whether you need it for research or personal security, learning how to manage Safari’s browsing history is essential for every Mac user. Follow this guide to learn how to check, search and clear your Safari browsing history on a Mac.

How to Check Safari Browsing History on a Mac

How to manage browsing history in safari.

Safari for Mac offers several different methods to access your browsing history. You can do it via the Safari menu, toolbar, or a keyboard shortcut.

Use the Safari Menu to Access Browsing History

The easiest way to check browsing history in Safari is from the web browser’s menu. Follow the steps below to check Safari history on your Mac.

Launch the Safari browser on your Mac. Find the ribbon menu in the upper-left corner of your screen, and select History .

You’ll get access in the drop-down menu to a list of all the websites you’ve previously visited.

If you want a more detailed view, click on Show All History at the top of the drop-down menu. This opens a dedicated browsing history window where you can search for specific websites and delete individual entries.

View Browsing History in the Safari Toolbar

If you often need to check or search Safari history, customize your Safari toolbar, and add a button to quickly access your browsing history.

Open the Safari browser on your Mac. From the ribbon menu, select View -> Customize Toolbar .

Drag History from the options and place it in any place you would like on the Toolbar.

Select Done in the bottom right of the window.

If you want to change the position of this button later or delete it from the toolbar altogether, follow the same steps and drag the button back to the items menu.

Use a Keyboard Shortcut to Check Safari History

For those who prefer using keyboard shortcuts, you can use a shortcut to open and check Safari history.

When you have a Safari window open, press the Command + Y keys to open your browsing history in a new window.

Along with viewing your browsing history, you can also keep your history organized.

Search Your History for Specific Websites

It’s easy to locate a particular website in your Safari history. When you open your browsing history, use the Search bar in the upper-right corner of the window to search within the list of your previously visited websites.

Enter the website’s name or any related keywords, and Safari will display all relevant results.

Clear Safari Search History

See something you don’t like in your browsing history? Or maybe it’s something you want to hide from prying eyes, should someone else access the list? You can delete specific entries from Safari history.

Open your browsing history window in Safari on either your Mac, right-click on the website entry you wish to delete, and select Delete .

You can also clear your entire browsing history or auto-delete it instead.

Open your browsing history window in Safari on your Mac. Look for the Clear History or Clear option at the bottom of the screen and select it. Select the time range of your browsing history that you want to clear (e.g., last hour , today , today and yesterday , or all history ).

Confirm your selection by clicking on Clear History or Clear Browsing History .

Improve Your Safari Experience

Mastering your Safari browsing history is essential for efficient web browsing and maintaining privacy on your Mac. With the various methods outlined here, you can easily access, search, and clear your browsing history to suit your needs. For those looking to optimize the Safari experience and protect their privacy, we recommend taking the next step and learning how to create Safari profiles on Mac, iPhone and iPad .

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Just about all modern web browsers default to maintaining a history log of your web browsing activity, and Safari for Mac is no different. This article will focus on how to access your Safari history on the Mac, and also how to search Safari browsing history for specific words, terms, and matches.

Accessing and searching through Safari browser history can be helpful for tracking down websites or articles that were previously visited on a particular topic but that you’ve since forgotten, retrieving previously visited websites, looking for a particular match, amongst many other valid uses for individual users, parents, public computers, information security, systems administrators, and much more.

Searching Safari web browsing history on a Mac is easy, here’s how it works:

How to Search Safari History on Mac

• Open the Safari web browser on the Mac if you have not done so already
• Pull down the “History” menu and choose “Show All History”

• You’ll now be presented with all stored Safari History of web browsing activity, with each browsing history session separated by date
• Click into the search box seen in the upper right corner of the History screen

• Type in any word, term, or phrase to search the Safari History for, any matches will be shown on screen

In the example here, we searched for the term “Chromebook” and Safari returned all matches for that term.

Safari History Search will find matches as far back as possible, searching through all Safari history for the current Mac user. Anything matching will be returned as a search result.

Searching browser history can be helpful for many reasons, whether you’re trying to recall something you were looking at some time ago, or you want to find a website or article about a particular topic you know you have visited before. Of course searching through web browser history can also be useful for forensic purposes and data auditing too, for those involved in fields where that can be necessary or relevant.

Safari will store browser history for as long as you have been using Safari, unless it has been cleared specifically. There are multiple options for clearing Safari history, and if you want to completely clear all history in Safari on the Mac that is possible. You can also prevent browser history from being stored in the first place by choosing to use Private Browsing mode in Safari for Mac , which doesn’t store local browsing session data or cookies.

Do keep in mind if you (or the target Mac) run multiple different versions of Safari, like Safari alongside Safari Tech Preview, then you’d need to check history in both Safari browsers, and likewise you’d want to clear history in both of them too if you were wanting to clear our history for whatever reason.

The capability to find and look through past browsing data is not unique to the Mac, you can also search Safari browsing history on the iPhone and iPad too, and virtually every other modern web browser also has the same capability, except for most TOR browsers and privacy centric apps like Firefox Focus.

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My safari on my MacBook Pro is getting buggy and a lot of things aren’t working, like I can’t click on an email address to start an email from the mail program, I click and nothing happens. Now I am trying to find a web page from a few days ago, so I try to go to ‘show all history’ but nothing happens. I can’t get my history to show in the browser!! It does have recent history, it’s just that I can’t access my whole history like I should be able to. What gives?

I used to use history a lot when I created a search in Safari. After going to a website that lead to further exploration it would sometimes take clicking the back arrow several times to get back to the original search and it was quicker to go to history and just click on the original search. Since one of the recent updates I have been unable to find the original searches any more. I don’t know if I am just not seeing it or if it isn’t there. Anyone else have this problem?

I have asked this before but I’m asking it again. It is possible to make a guide on how to go to root and _delete_ the option “new private window” from the File dropdown menu? How to edit the nib file etc…

You can Enable Parental Controls on Mac and that can be used to disable Safari Private Mode.

Or this below, which I found on the web and would not recommend to anyone:

If logging isn’t practical or you want to be more proactive and prevent Private Browsing from being accessible in the first place, it is possible (though not a short process) to disable Private Browsing if you are willing to mess with Safari’s internal files.

Note that macOS 10.12+ will not allow you to modify, overwrite, or delete Safari. You can make the following modifications to a copy of Safari and put that version in the Dock, but the original Safari will still need to exist in the Applications folder.

Install the necessary files

Install Xcode (available in the App Store) Download a zip file of Nib-Decompiler from GitHub (or clone the repository if you know how to do that) Open the NibDecompiler.xcodeproj Xcode project in Xcode Compile the project. This will produce a file named NibDecompiler.action. You can now close the project. Copy NibDecompiler.action into ~/Library/Automator* From your download, copy NibDecompiler.workflow into ~/Library/Services* Remove the “New Private Window” option from the menu bar

Note that this involves editing the Safari internal files. You will need to redo these steps every time you update Safari.

Go to Safari in the Finder and right-click “Show Package Contents” This will open the app as if it were a folder. Go to Contents, then Resources, then Base.lproj folder. Find MainMenu.nib. Copy it outside of the package somewhere (like the Desktop). Right-click on the file and choose “NibDecompiler”. The file will be made editable. Open the file in Xcode (should be double-clickable) In the window with the Safari menu, choose “Safari” to expand it. Click on the “New Private Window” menu item. Hit the delete key to see it disappear. Save the file. Back in the Base.lproj folder of the Safari app, make a copy MainMenu.nib just in case something goes wrong and you need to restore it. Copy your edited MainMenu.nib to Base.lproj, overwriting the existing one. Open Safari to make sure that it still opens (if it doesn’t, restore your original MainMenu.nib file). (Optional) If everything works, you may delete the backup MainMenu.nib if you so choose. By removing the “New Private Window” menu item from the menu bar, they will not be able to enter private browsing. Additionally, keyboard shortcuts are tied to menu items, so that’s disabled too.

* ~ means your user home directory. Library is a hidden folder that isn’t visible when you navigate to the home directory. You can get to this folder in the Finder by going to the “Go” menu and choosing “Connect to Folder…”, then typing in ~/Library. You will then see the folders you need to copy files to.

Instructions copied from this MacRumors forum thread ( https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-disable-private-browsing-in-safari.175238/page-3#post-23387488 )

You can see things you wish you didn’t see by doing this on someone elses computer!

You can find cold things in their refrigerators, too, genius.

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How to Manage Your Browsing History in Safari

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The Apple Safari web browser keeps a log of your search history and the websites that you visit. Learn how to manage your browsing history in Safari and how to browse privately.

Instructions in this article apply to Safari for Mac computers with OS X Yosemite (10.10) through macOS Catalina (10.15) and Apple mobile devices with iOS 8 through iOS 14.

How to Manage Safari History on macOS

Safari has long been the standard web browser for macOS . Here's how to manage Safari's history on a Mac:

Open the Safari browser and select  History  in the menu bar located at the top of the screen.

You'll see a drop-down menu with the titles of the web pages you visited recently. Select a website to load the respective page or select one of the previous days at the bottom of the menu to see more options.

To clear your Safari browsing history and other site-specific data that's stored locally, choose  Clear History  at the bottom of the History  drop-down menu.

If you want to keep website data (like saved passwords and other autofill information), go to  History  >  Show All History . Press Cmd + A  to select everything, then press  Delete to remove your browser history while retaining website data.

Select the period you want to clear from the drop-down menu. Options include the last hour , today , today and yesterday , and all history .

Select Clear History to delete the list of sites.

If you sync your Safari data with any Apple mobile devices using iCloud , the history on those devices is cleared as well.

How to Use Private Browsing in Safari

To prevent websites from appearing in the browser history, use Private Browsing. To open a private window in Safari, go to File > New Private Window , or use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + N .

When you close the private window, Safari doesn't remember your search history, the web pages you visited, or any autofill information. The only distinguishing feature of the new window is that the address bar is tinted dark gray. The browsing history for all tabs in this window remains private.

In Safari for Windows , select the settings gear and choose Private Browsing from the drop-down menu.

How to Manage History in Safari on iOS Devices

The Safari app is part of the iOS operating system used in the Apple iPhone , iPad, and iPod touch . To manage the Safari browsing history on an iOS device:

Tap the  Safari app to open it.

Tap the Bookmarks  icon at the bottom of the screen. It resembles an open book.

Tap the History icon at the top of the screen that opens. It resembles a clock face.

Scroll through the screen for a website to open. Tap an entry to open the page in Safari.

To clear the browsing history, tap  Clear  at the bottom of the History screen.

Choose one of the four options:  The last hour , Today , Today and yesterday , and  All time .

Clearing your Safari history also removes cookies and other browsing data. If your iOS device is signed into your iCloud account, the browsing history is removed from other devices that are signed in.

Tap  Done  to exit the screen and return to the browser page.

If you only want to remove individual sites from your Safari history, swipe left on the entry, then tap Delete .

How to Use Private Browsing in Safari on iOS Devices

You can also use Private Browsing in iOS to prevent your Safari search history and web data from being saved:

Open the Safari app and then press and hold the tabs icon (the two overlapping boxes) at the bottom of the screen.

Tap Private .

Tap the plus sign to open a private browsing window.

When you are in private browsing, the background of the URL address bar is black instead of light gray. Enter a URL or search term as usual.

When you are ready to go back to regular browsing, tap the tabs icon and then tap Private to turn off private browsing.

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Introduction

Safari, the default web browser for Mac, is a powerful tool for navigating the vast expanse of the internet. Whether you're conducting research, shopping online, or simply browsing for leisure, Safari keeps track of the websites you visit, creating a record of your browsing history. This feature not only allows you to revisit previously viewed pages with ease but also provides insights into your online activities.

Understanding how to access and manage your Safari browsing history is essential for optimizing your browsing experience. By delving into your browsing history, you can retrace your steps, revisit valuable resources, and gain a deeper understanding of your online habits. Furthermore, being able to clear your browsing history can help maintain privacy and declutter your browsing experience.

In this guide, we will explore the various aspects of Safari history on Mac, including how to access, view, manage, and clear your browsing history. By the end of this article, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage Safari's history feature to enhance your browsing efficiency and privacy. Let's embark on this journey to uncover the hidden gems of your browsing history and learn how to navigate the digital landscape with finesse.

Accessing Safari History

Accessing your Safari browsing history on Mac is a straightforward process that allows you to delve into your past online activities. Whether you're looking to revisit a previously viewed website or gain insights into your browsing patterns, accessing your Safari history is the first step in unlocking a treasure trove of digital information.

To access your Safari browsing history, follow these simple steps:

Open Safari : Launch the Safari web browser on your Mac. You can do this by clicking on the Safari icon in the dock or by searching for Safari using Spotlight.

Navigate to History : Once Safari is open, look for the "History" option in the top menu bar. Click on "History" to reveal a dropdown menu containing various options related to your browsing history.

View History : Within the "History" dropdown menu, you will find the "Show All History" option. Click on "Show All History" to open the History window, which displays a comprehensive list of your browsing history.

Explore Your History : Upon accessing the History window, you will be presented with a chronological list of websites you have visited, organized by date and time. You can scroll through this list to locate specific websites or periods of browsing activity.

By following these steps, you can effortlessly access your Safari browsing history and gain valuable insights into your past online endeavors. Whether you're seeking to revisit a previously discovered article, track your online shopping activities, or simply understand your browsing habits, accessing your Safari history is the gateway to a wealth of digital information.

Understanding how to access your Safari history empowers you to harness the full potential of your browsing experience. It allows you to retrace your digital footsteps, uncover valuable resources, and gain a deeper understanding of your online interactions. With the ability to access your Safari history at your fingertips, you are poised to navigate the digital landscape with confidence and efficiency.

Viewing and Managing Safari History

Upon accessing your Safari browsing history, you are presented with a wealth of digital information that offers insights into your online activities. However, the value of your browsing history extends beyond mere observation; it encompasses the ability to manage and leverage this information to enhance your browsing experience. Viewing and managing your Safari history on Mac allows you to delve deeper into your online interactions, organize your browsing patterns, and optimize your digital journey.

Viewing Safari History

When viewing your Safari history, you are greeted with a chronological list of websites you have visited, meticulously organized by date and time. This comprehensive overview enables you to retrace your digital footsteps, revisit previously explored web pages, and gain a holistic understanding of your browsing habits. Whether you are seeking to recall a specific website, track your online research, or analyze your browsing patterns, the ability to view your Safari history provides a window into your digital endeavors.

Managing Safari History

In addition to viewing your Safari history, the browser offers tools to manage this wealth of digital data. By leveraging the features provided, you can effectively organize and optimize your browsing history to suit your preferences and privacy needs. Safari allows you to manage your browsing history through the following methods:

Search Functionality : Safari incorporates a search bar within the History window, enabling you to swiftly locate specific websites or keywords within your browsing history. This feature streamlines the process of navigating through extensive browsing records, allowing you to pinpoint relevant information with ease.

Organizing by Date : Safari enables you to organize your browsing history by date, facilitating the categorization of your online activities based on specific timeframes. This functionality empowers you to gain a clearer overview of your browsing patterns and easily identify websites visited during specific periods.

Deleting Individual Entries : Should the need arise to remove specific entries from your browsing history, Safari offers the option to delete individual items. This feature grants you control over the content of your browsing history, allowing for the selective removal of entries while retaining others.

Clearing Entire History : For a comprehensive approach to managing your browsing history, Safari provides the option to clear your entire history. This action effectively removes all recorded browsing data, offering a clean slate for your future online endeavors.

By actively managing your Safari history, you can curate a personalized browsing experience that aligns with your preferences and privacy requirements. Whether it involves organizing your browsing patterns, selectively removing specific entries, or clearing your entire history, the ability to manage your Safari history empowers you to navigate the digital landscape with confidence and efficiency.

Leveraging Safari History

Beyond the realm of management, your Safari history holds the potential to enhance your browsing efficiency and productivity. By leveraging the insights gleaned from your browsing history, you can:

Revisit Valuable Resources : Your browsing history serves as a repository of valuable resources and information encountered during your online activities. By revisiting previously viewed websites, you can access pertinent content, reference essential materials, and build upon your digital knowledge base.

Understand Browsing Patterns : Analyzing your browsing history provides insights into your online habits and preferences. This understanding can guide you in optimizing your browsing experience, discovering new interests, and streamlining your digital interactions.

Enhance Privacy : Actively managing your browsing history allows you to maintain privacy and control over your digital footprint. By selectively removing entries or clearing your history, you can safeguard sensitive information and maintain a clutter-free browsing environment.

In essence, viewing and managing your Safari history on Mac transcends the simple act of observing past online activities. It encompasses the ability to curate and leverage this digital repository to enrich your browsing experience, gain insights into your online interactions, and maintain control over your digital footprint. By embracing the functionalities offered by Safari and harnessing the potential of your browsing history, you are poised to navigate the digital landscape with finesse and purpose.

Clearing Safari History

Clearing your Safari history is a pivotal aspect of managing your digital footprint and maintaining privacy within the digital realm. Whether you seek to declutter your browsing experience, safeguard sensitive information, or ensure a fresh start for your online activities, the ability to clear your Safari history empowers you to take control of your browsing data.

To clear your Safari history on Mac, follow these simple steps:

Open Safari Preferences : Launch Safari and navigate to the "Safari" menu located in the top-left corner of the screen. From the dropdown menu, select "Preferences" to access the Safari Preferences window.

Access Privacy Settings : Within the Safari Preferences window, click on the "Privacy" tab. This section houses various privacy-related settings, including options for managing website data and clearing browsing history.

Clear Browsing History : Under the Privacy tab, locate the "Remove All Website Data" button. Clicking on this button will prompt a confirmation dialog, offering the option to remove all website data, including your browsing history, cookies, and cached files.

Confirm Clearing History : Upon selecting the "Remove All Website Data" button, Safari will present a confirmation dialog to verify your intent. You can choose to proceed with clearing your browsing history and website data by clicking "Remove Now."

By following these steps, you can effectively clear your Safari history and reset your browsing environment. This action ensures that your past online activities are removed from the browser, offering a clean slate for your future browsing endeavors.

Clearing your Safari history holds several benefits, including:

Privacy Protection : By clearing your browsing history, you can safeguard sensitive information and maintain privacy within your digital interactions. This action prevents others from accessing a detailed record of your online activities.

Decluttered Browsing Experience : Clearing your history eliminates the clutter of past browsing data, providing a streamlined and organized browsing environment. This can enhance the efficiency and speed of your browsing experience.

Fresh Start : Clearing your browsing history offers a fresh start for your online activities. Whether you are embarking on new research, conducting confidential tasks, or simply seeking a clean slate, clearing your history sets the stage for a renewed digital journey.

In essence, the ability to clear your Safari history on Mac empowers you to maintain privacy, declutter your browsing environment, and embark on new digital endeavors with confidence. By understanding and leveraging the functionality to clear your browsing history, you can curate a personalized and secure browsing experience that aligns with your preferences and privacy requirements.

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Safari for iOS provides a convenient way to keep track of your browsing history. You can use it to call up web pages quickly you’ve visited. You can easily go down the rabbit hole when performing searches online. This makes it difficult to remember exactly where you found a valuable piece of information. Reviewing your browsing history can retrace your steps, saving you the arduous task of finding the data from scratch. This article covers how to see your history in Safari. Check out how to do that below.

How to View History in Safari on an iPhone

Safari stores your browser activity, making it possible to revisit sites at a later date. You could either view your most recent history or check out the entire list of previously visited websites. This is how to do that.

You have now accessed your recent history on Safari.

If you would like to view your complete Safari browsing history, here’s how to do that.

You’ve now accessed your Safari browsing history.

How to View History in Safari on an iPad

Safari allows users to keep track of their browsing history. This feature can then be used to revisit sites that might be of interest. You could either view recent history or peruse all your browsing data. The steps listed here detail how to do that.

You have now viewed the recent history on your iPad.

To view your complete browsing data, follow the steps outlined here.

How to View History in Safari on a Mac

Your Safari browsing history allows you to revisit sites you viewed in the past. You can even use the search tool so that you don’t have to scroll through the entire list of results to find what you are looking for. Here’s how to view your browsing history on an iPhone.

• Click on it to open the page in your browser.

You can now see your history in Safari. If you signed in to your device using the same Apple ID that you use on your other Apple devices, that history would also be displayed on your Mac.

Can You View History From Private Browsing?

Private Browsing is a feature that prevents Safari from storing information on sites you have visited. It ensures there’s no record of your online activity, including passwords or autofill information. It also prevents iCloud from storing data on any tabs that you open. To provide an additional layer of privacy, Safari prevents sites and content providers from tracking you. Any cookies you might have picked up are deleted once you close the tab.

This means that Safari doesn’t store your browsing history when you activate Private Browsing. You will therefore be unable to view it in the future.

How to Clear History in Safari

If your Apple device is lagging or otherwise misbehaving, you might consider clearing your browsing data. This is how to do that.

Your browsing data will now be removed from your device.

Retracing Your Steps

Like many web browsers, Safari stores information on websites you’ve visited. This data can come in handy when you want to go back to a particular site. This guide shows you how to retrieve the browsing history stored on your Apple devices.

Have you viewed your browsing history on Safari? What did you think of the process? Let us know in the comments below.

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How to View and Clear Your Safari History on Mac

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We all spend a vast proportion of our time surfing, that’s why your Mac swarms with a list of sites you have browsed in the past. Safari uses iCloud to maintain the same browsing history across your Macs and iOS devices. You only need to have Safari toggled on in iCloud preferences. Macs preserve your browsing history for up to a year, while iOS devices keep it for a month.

You’ve to manage your browsing history to determine what goes to your Apple data download. However, erasing it will not give you a clean slate due to iCloud backups. So in this article, we will show you how to view history on Safari , and ways to delete them. Let’s get started.

Contents: Part 1. Understanding Search Browser History & Why You Need to Turn It off Part 2. How to View and Clear Safari History on Mac Manually Part 3. How to Clear Other Browser History Manually Part 4. Other Choices to Clear Browser History Part 5. Conclusion

Part 1. Understanding Search Browser History & Why You Need to Turn It off

Unpacking Search Browser History

Your browser memorizes every website you visit. To prevent this, enable Incognito Mode or Private Browsing. Otherwise, your browser stores all these pages systematically and they’re inextricably linked to your account. Sites you visit can pop up in autofill Google search forms if you track them. They stick out in violet in your search results.

Browsers also save information about the time when you surfed any page. Browsing history doubles as a website retrieval tool to home on any page from corpus items through the search bar.

Why would you mull over a nuked browsing history?

Sometimes, you wipe out this data for privacy, regulatory compliance, business secrecy, anxiety or simply spruce up your Mac. So, no website you opened will appear in your browser search results titled “ already visited ”.

When you want to sell or give away your Mac, failure to erase browser history could expose troves of your online data to prying eyes. Equally, clearing your history will throw a snooping eye off the scent if someone attempts to look up your surfing history.

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Automate your way of handling histories with a versatile browser removal tool for clockwork accuracy. Privacy tool adds an extra layer of security in safeguarding your privacy with the total annihilation of surfed pages.

We recommend you use the module Privacy of iMyMac PowerMyMac to automatically wipe away history details, cookies, and other pieces of data regurgitated by browsers. This software works like stink to clear out various types of Apple data download records.

It also allows you to determine the cookies you wish to retain like the frequently-visited-sites. It boasts powerful algorithms that scan faster and delete in a single click. Try it out to wipe out your online footprint.

Part 2. How to View and Clear Safari History on Mac Manually

How to View Safari History on Mac

• Search the web browsing history in Safari on your Mac. You can search your browsing history to quickly find webpages you visited before.
• In the Safari app on your Mac, choose History > Show All History.
• Type in the Search field at the top-right corner of the window.

How to Clear Safari History on Mac

• Launch Safari from the dock.
• Click on history in the menu bar at the upper parts of your screen. You can pore over your recent browsing history by drifting the mouse over the latest date in this list of entries.
• Choose Show All History at the upper drop-down menu. This throws up the entire browser history exhibited by date. Use the keyboard shortcut ⌘Command+Y to launch the history in Safari.
• Click ▶ on the left of any date to extend the browser archives for that date in a complete list. You can wipe out the history by clicking on Clear history on the upper-right of the page.

Part 3. How to Clear Other Browser History Manually

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• Launch Chrome.
• Click on History from the menu bar on the crest of the screen. This spew up a collection of Recently Closed websites and an assortment of Recently Visited
• Click on Show Full History at the foot of the drop-down menu. This reveals a list of your Chrome browsing history.
• Scroll down to see your browser history. The pages appear incrementally and you can keep looking through to go back months earlier. You can discard your history by clicking on Clear browsing data at the top left of the window.
• Launch the Firefox browser.
• Click on the History tab at the top of the menu bar.
• Select “ Clear Recent History ”.
• Decide the time range you want wiping out (“Everything” will erase all history).
• Hover over the Details arrow, click it.
• Select “ Browsing and Download History ”.
• Un-check the other options.
• Select “ Clear now ” to wrap up.

Part 4. Other Choices to Clear Browser History

Icloud apple’s data.

You don’t have to panic about iCloud backups associated with browsing history. Turn on Safari iCloud syncing and clear out your history across your able devices. Follow the steps under Safari with iCloud sync enabled.

Sign Out your Accounts

Browsing without having social media, iTunes or Google account logged in prevents search engines from tying up pages visited you. However, these pages still exist in your browser history. But these pages will no longer appear as “already visited”. Alternatively, use the Incognito Mode or Private Browsing to dissociate listed pages with your accounts.

Third-Party Tool

Erasing browser history ensures your history doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Browser Cleanup Tool "Privacy" of PowerMyMac blazes the trail as dedicated software to securely and quickly wipe out browser history from Macs, from the first day. It provides a safe pair of hands to clean up browsers in a split-second. Download it for free so you won’t soil your hands with digital dirt.

Furthermore, Mac stores info on your internet activity with caches, logs, outdated files, and downloads. Privacy (Browser Cleanup) from iMyMac PowerMyMac offers a new broom to brush away all bits of your browser history.

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To clear your history on Safari, click the "History" button at the top, then select "Clear History." You can also set Safari to clear your browsing history automatically by going to Preferences > General, then set "Remove History Items" to the time frame you want.

You may not have anything to hide when we surf the Internet, but you still may want to clear your history every now and then. Here's how you can clear your browsing history in Safari on MacOS.

On Safari, all you do is click the "History" button at the top of the screen then select "Clear History" at the bottom of the list.

Once you do this, you will be given a choice: you can select "the last hour," "today," "today and yesterday," and "all history" from a drop-down menu. Once you've decided, click the "Clear History" button and the history will be clear per your preference.

If you simply want to clear part of your history, you can click "Show History" ("Command + Y").

Click on the site or use the "Command" key to select several sites, then press the "Delete" key. You can also click "Clear History" in the upper right corner to remove everything all at once.

You can also right-click a history entry to delete it.

Related: How to Clear History, Cache, and Cookies in Safari on iPhone or iPad

You can also set Safari to automatically clear your history every so often. When you open up the Safari preference ("Command + ,"), click the "General" tab, and select the "Remove History items" option.

You can decide when or if your history is automatically deleted after one day, one week, two weeks, one month, one year, or you can keep your history indefinitely by selecting the manual option.

To clear cookies in Safari, while you're in Safari's preferences, click on the "Privacy" tab and click "Manage Website Data."

On this page, you will see all the cookies stored on your Mac. You can right-click a specific cookie and select "Delete" to remove it, or you can hold the "Command" button and select several at once.

If you want to remove all of your cookies, click "Remove All" at the bottom of the window.

You will be asked to confirm you want to "remove all data stored by websites on your computer."

Keep in mind that, if you do this, any websites you might have personalized will be removed, and you will be logged out of all websites (though it should be easy to log back in if you've saved your username and password).

Related: How to Block Third-Party Cookies in Every Web Browser

Clearing your history and cookies isn't necessarily sneaky. It's good to be privacy-conscious because there are often times when someone will ask to use your computer for a minute. You may not be looking at anything untoward or scandalous, but then again, you don't necessarily want just anyone knowing what you've been looking at or reading.

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Mar 19, 2019 12:44 PM in response to Absolutely_4_Mac

If history is cleared, it is gone. Clear your browsing history in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

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Check Safari > History folder.

    Quit Safari.

    Close all windows and quit all other applications.

    Hold "option" key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.

    Library will appear between “Home” and “Computer” entries in the dropdown.

    Scroll down the list and click open Safari folder.

    Scroll down a bit  and you should see History files listed.

Mar 19, 2019 12:34 PM in response to Absolutely_4_Mac

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Safari. All the files that begin with History is where the information is stored.

How to View Safari Private Browsing History on Mac

In case you’re not aware, Apple’s Safari browser, like other popular browsers, offers a Private Browsing mode . Simply put, when you use this feature while using Safari, the browser won’t log or save any of your activity. Other browsers call this Incognito Mode. The downside is that all your saved preferences for websites you frequently visited are disabled. Still, it won’t hurt to browse websites using the feature from time to time for some private browsing experience. But is there really no way to browse your Private Browsing history? Well, there is, and that’s what I’m going to show you in this guide on how to view Private Browsing history in Safari on your Mac.

How Does Private Browsing Work in Safari

When you opt to browse websites in Safari using Private Browsing, it opens up a new private window in your browser. As previously mentioned, when privately browsing in Safari, your activity will not be logged or saved. Although it’s not a foolproof way of browsing privately, the feature still offers some level of privacy. As such, Private Browsing in Safari won’t record your search engine history, webpages you’ve visited, browsing activity, and most especially passwords you used on different websites.

It should be noted that this feature doesn’t really prevent the websites you visited from knowing who you are and your browsing activity on the website.

How to Browse Privately in Safari on Your Mac

Before I discuss the procedure on how to view your Private Browsing history on Mac, let me walk you through the steps on how to browse privately. You can either do it one time or opt to always browse privately.

To browse privately in Safari one time:

• Open the Safari app on your Mac.

To always browse privately in Safari:

• Click General.

What is the Mac Terminal Archive?

Now that you know how to use Private Browsing in Safari on your Mac, it’s time for you to know that your Mac actually logs that browsing history. This can be found in your Mac’s Terminal archive. You’ll be surprised to know that this Terminal archive contains information about all of the websites you visited. That’s even when you use the Private Browsing feature. So, you can view Private Browsing history via the Terminal archive.

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You will notice that the website names have been translated into their corresponding IP addresses. You won’t see the exact name of the websites. That’s because your Mac has consulted a DNS directory to translate the website names into IP addresses.

We think you might also be interested in how to clear browser cache on Mac for Chrome, Firefox and Safari .

Final Words: Is It Really Safe to Browse Privately in Safari?

According to Apple, when you browse privately in Safari :

• The browser won’t save the web pages you visit and your Autofill information.
• Safari won’t store webpages you open in iCloud.
• Safari won’t include your recent searches in the results list when you use the Smart Search field.
• Safari won’t include items you downloaded in the download list.
• Changes to your cookies and website won’t be saved.

Knowing all that, Private Browsing in Safari would seem safe. But then, when you browse privately, are you really browsing anonymously, or does the feature just hide your information from anyone who could access your Mac? However, if somebody gets physical access to your Mac and knows their way around, they can still see the websites you visited, since the information is stored in the DNS cache of your Mac.

Even worse is when you are using a public network. The network administrator can still see the websites you are visiting using your Mac. The bottom line is that advertisers can still track you even if you browse privately on your Mac, and then serve targeted ads. If you don’t mind that at all, then there’s no harm in always browsing privately in Safari on your Mac.

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• Hide ads when reading
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• Download items from the web
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• Interact with text in a picture
• Change your homepage
• Customize a start page
• Create a profile
• Block pop-ups
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• Clear your browsing history
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You can search your browsing history to quickly find websites you visited.

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Type in the Search field at the top-right corner of the window.

Safari uses iCloud to keep your browsing history the same on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac computers that have iCloud set up for Safari . Your Mac can keep your browsing history for as long as a year, while some iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models keep browsing history for a month. To change how often your Mac removes items from your history, see Change General settings .

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Summary:  This post mainly talks about how to recover deleted Safari history on Mac in 5 simple ways and covers how to find and open Safari History.db files on MacBook. Among them, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is the most possible method.

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Sometimes, to keep your Safari browsing history clean, or to prevent others from examining your online activity, you may choose to   delete Safari history on Mac . That's all fine until you need the address of a website you've visited before and can't remember it.

If you're looking for ways to recover the deleted Safari history on Mac , then this post will help you because it addresses the top 5 methods to retrieve deleted Safari history on Mac. In addition, it briefly explains what Safari browser history is and where you can find it.

An overview to recover deleted Safari history on Mac

Keep reading, follow the detailed ways to restore deleted Safari history on Mac ~

How to find and open Safari history on Mac?

Safari history is a database file that contains your previously visited websites. Just like most other web browsers, Safari keeps the history file automatically. So it is easier for users to revisit some websites to  recover deleted apps on Mac  without having to find and enter their addresses once again.

Normally, there are two ways to view Safari history on Mac or MacBook. One is to check it in Safari, the other is to find the Safari History.db file in  Finder .

Find history in Safari:

• Open Safari on your Mac. 
• On the menu bar, select the History option. 

Then, you'll see a table with two columns and multiple rows. The first column from the left shows the names of the websites you previously visited and these sites are sorted by date, while the second column shows their full addresses.

View the History.db file in Finder:

All the information that you can see when you click the Show All History button in Safari is stored on the Macintosh hard drive, which is named History.db. To find and open it, do the following:

• Open Finder . 
• Choose the Go option, click Go to Folder . 

Locate the History.db file, then you will find you can't open it with any built-in macOS app. It's a database file, you need to use a database browser like  DB Browser for SQLite  to open it.

The prior way to recover deleted Safari history on Mac

Using a data recovery tool is the simplest and quickest way to  recover deleted files on Mac , including the deleted Safari history. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is a top-ranking, professional, and safe data recovery tool.

Without backups, it helps recover deleted documents, emails, photos, videos, and other types of files from your Mac hard drive. Besides, it also allows  recovering files from external hard drives on Mac . Thus, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is perfect for recovering the History.db file that has been accidentally or intentionally deleted.

Just follow the steps below to recover deleted Safari history on Mac :

• Download and install iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac on Mac. 
• Launch this app, select the macOS volume or the  Macintosh HD  volume, and click Search for Lost Data.
• From the scanning results, find the deleted History.db file. (you can click the type)

You can then view deleted Safari history in DB Browser for SQLite. To view it in Safari, you need to copy the recovered History.db file to ~/Library/Safari folder and overwrite the file that's currently in the location. Share this tool if you succeed~

How to recover deleted Safari history on Mac?

Here we will talk about 4 ways to recover deleted Safari history on Mac , but some of them need backups or the temporary files are still here. So you are suggested to utilize the prior way iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac~

Method 1: Recover deleted Safari history on Mac with Safari cookies

Besides using backups, you can try checking the cookies in the Safari browser to recover Safari deleted history . Cookies are small files that websites use to store data, including URLs. Let's follow:

• Open Safari on Mac.
• Select Preferences on the top menu.
• Choose Privacy > Manage Website Data .
• In the results, scroll down to find whether the deleted Safari history is here or not.

If the cooikes are corrupted or may not store your browsing history, you cannot recover deleted Safari history on Mac , please try the next method.

Method 2: Recover deleted Safari history on Mac with Safari .db file

There is a quick way to see all the previously visited websites with .db files. So if you delete Safari history, it's possible to recover deleted history on Safari from it. 

• Install DB Browser for SQLite for free.
• Open the app, and click Open Database and select the History.db file.
• switch to the Browse Data tab , select the history_items. 

But what if you lost all the Safari history due to accidental deletion or intentional deletion to protect your privacy, is it possible to find them back? The answer is using your backups.

Method 3: Recover deleted Safari history on Mac with TimeMachine backup

Time Machine  is a built-in feature in macOS that enables you to back up important files on your Mac. If you have  backed up your Mac with Time Machine  before deleting the Safari history, you can use the Time Machine backups to retrieve the deleted Safari browsing data. Here's what to do:

• Open Finder and select Go > Go to Folder . 
• Enter ~/Library/Safari and click the Go button. 
• Scroll down until you find the History.db database file and select it. 
• Click on the Time Machine from the menu bar, and select Enter Time Machine . 
• According to the date, find your wanted version of the History.db file that contains your deleted Safari browsing history. 

Once the Time Machine restoring process is done, you will get back all your browser data. The next time you open Safari, you will see the browsing history.

However, if you haven't created a Time Machine backup beforehand, this approach to recover the deleted Safari history on Mac might prove to be useless. Then try the last resort - using iCloud to retrieve the Safari history.

Method 4: Recover deleted Safari history on Mac with iCloud backup

If you're using  iCloud  to synchronize your Safari history across your Mac and iPhone. Then you may have another option to restore the Safari browsing data from your iPhone to your Mac.

Here are the steps to recover Safari history by using iCloud Sync:

• Launch the iPhone Settings menu on your iPhone. 
• Tap on your name to open Apple Profile. 
• Select on iCloud and scroll to the Safari app. 
• Enable the toggle button for Safari iCloud data sync.  
• Select the Keep on My iPhone option. 

Now all your Safari history present on the iPhone will be overwritten on the iCloud, replacing the one from Mac. Open the Safari browser on Mac, the merged Safari history will be synchronized automatically.

Hope one of the methods mentioned above is helpful to recover deleted Safari history. If you're not so lucky to have a TimeMachine backup or iCloud Sync beforehand, then using iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac to retrieve the Safari deleted history is your best choice. Share this post to help more people~

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