How to Clear Browsing Data in Chrome for iPhone or iPod touch

The Google Chrome app for the iPhone stores data on your device and the cloud as you surf the web. While this information can be useful for future browsing sessions, it also presents security risks and takes up space. Because of these risks, you should know how to clean Chrome's storage on iOS devices.

How to Delete Chrome Data on iOS Devices

Chrome automatically saves your browsing history, passwords, cookies, cached images, autofill data, and sometimes whole websites. To manage your browsing history and other cached data on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

1. Open the Chrome app on the iOS device.

2. Tap the ellipses (...) in the lower-right corner of the Chrome app.

3. Tap History in the pop-up menu.

4. Tap Clear Browsing Data.

   

5. Select the items you want to delete from Chrome by tapping the items individually to place a check mark next to them. In addition to Browsing History, you may want to select Cookies, Site Data, Cached Images and Files, or one of the other options.

6. Tap Clear Browsing Data, then tap it again in the confirmation screen to remove the data from the device and the cloud.

   

7. Tap Done at the top of the screen when the confirmation pop-up goes away to return to Chrome.

Understanding Chrome's Browsing Data Options

The types of data that Chrome automatically saves include:

• Browsing history: Chrome maintains a record of every website you visited since the last time you cleared the history. Access these previously viewed sites from the Chrome History screen in the main menu.
• Cookies: Cookies are files placed on the device when you visit certain sites. Each cookie is used to tell a web server when you return to its page. Cookies remember specific website settings and sensitive information such as login credentials.
• Cached images and files: Chrome for iPhone and iPod touch uses its cache to store images, content, and URLs of recently visited web pages. The browser uses the cache to render these pages faster on subsequent visits by loading the assets locally from the device rather than from the web server.
• Saved passwords: When you enter a password on a website, Chrome usually asks if you want it to remember the password. If you choose Yes, the password is stored on the device or in the cloud, similar to a password manager.
• Autofill data: Chrome stores information you enter into web forms such as your name, address, and payment information. This data is used by the browser's Autofill feature to populate similar fields during subsequent sessions.