Good news! The process is easy and quick, so let’s take a look at this Quick-Tip. Note: This article was written in 2010 when Android was in its early days. Now you can clear your browsing history and cache from Settings inside Chrome or whatever browser you’re using. Step 1 – While in the Android browser, Tap the external menu button. Note: On my Samsung Galaxy S it was located at the bottom left corner of the screen, but this can vary depending on your device.
The menu should now appear in the display. Tap the More option from that list.
Step 2 – Tap the Settings option from the list.
Step 3 – Scroll down the settings window until you get to Privacy settings. There are quite a few things to clear here:
Clear cacheClear historyClear all cookie dataClear form dataClear location access
Step 4 – Click on everything in Step 3 above; a prompt will appear for each one. Tap OK to confirm the deletion each time.
Step 5 – Optional: Clear Passwords, and Nuke There are two additional options at the bottom of the settings page you can opt to do if you like. One is the Clear Passwords button that will just erase all passwords and account information that gets saved on your Android device. This action isn’t necessary, but it can keep people from accessing your online services if your phone falls into the wrong hands. Another option is Reset to default aka the Nuke button. One Press on the nuke button and your Android browser will revert to factory settings, clearing out everything else at the same time. I would suggest this, but it is a pain to change the browser home page, so I never use this button.
Done!
After following the above steps, your Android browser is now clean from all history and cache files. You can rest at ease while letting other people use the browser app on your device! They won’t be able to hijack your Facebook account or run into an embarrassing suggested Google search. and these steps works perfectly to delete browsing history!! he didnt say its to delete search history.. this didn’t work on my HTC Evo, so I’ve installed Android Delete History PRO and now it’s working great ;) Thank you In the case of WiFi, the router (wireless broadcast device) usually retains logs of all the sites accessed through it. Depending on where you are connecting from there could be additional switches in place between the router and the internet service provider. Any number of these could be tracking your history. The only way to find out what is tracking you is to know the hardware setup. If you’re at home, its probably just your router broadcasting and then the connection goes directly to the internet service provider (comcast, verizon, timewarner, etc). Just login to the router and clear out the history and you’re set. But if you’re at work then it’s a whole other ballgame. At work it would depend on what type of job you have. Most companies monitor all network traffic going through their systems. If you work in any type of medium-large office this is the case. If you work in a smaller office it might not have the resources to set this up. An office that isn’t IT oriented probably doesn’t care about browser history that much, for example a doctors or dentist’s office might not track usage. There’s also an interesting factor to consider. Because you were browsing the internet on your phone, the company might not know who you are, especially if you work in a large office. The exception of course would be if the office provided the phone. But if its your personal phone that you brought from home and used to connect to company wifi, the company would probably have a hard time tracking you down, but it isn’t impossible. The internet service provider can also track your history, but usually won’t keep logs longer than a couple days. Conclusion: ———— Lots of things can track you over WiFi. If you’re at home you can clear the history on your router. But you can’t clear the history from your Internet Service Provider. At work there isn’t much you can do other than perhaps bribing the network admin to clear your history, but if you connected using your personal phone you probably don’t have much to worry about as long aren’t continually looking at sites that aren’t safe for work. If you want to truly avoid being tracked, you’d have to purchase an anonymous VPN connection and use that. I’ll explain my situation. I live in a place without wifi. But there is wifi at my parents house, so I sleep over sometimes just to download stuff onto my phone using wifi. And my brother told me once to be careful because things can be viewed through a proxy server. But I’m wondering.. if the box that I mentioned above was unticked… is it still possible? Also… I ALWAYS use incognito mode in Google Chrome on their computers and any other computers. Does this track my history? Or will it just be blank on the proxy server? Thanks for helping. Only that these words don’t go away when you do a history wipe. In fact to delete any of these you don’t need to mess with any privacy settings. Here’s how quick it’s done. Enter Incognito Mode Start to type a search on the top bar When the quick search words appear Select and hold down fpr a couple seconds the one you wish went away and the option to remove it willooks appear. That simple. Comment Name * Email *
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