How to Clear Cookies and Web History on iPad
It’s easy to delete website data, including cookies, and your web history at the same time.
Prevent Cookies With Safari Privacy Mode
The Safari Privacy Mode keeps sites from showing up in your web history or accessing your cookies. It’s easy to browse the iPad in privacy mode.
How to Clear Cookies From a Specific Website
Clearing cookies from a specific website is helpful if you have concerns with a single site but don’t want your usernames and passwords cleared from the other websites you visit.
How to Prevent Cookies
You can prevent the iPad from accepting cookies from all Safari websites in the Settings screen.
What Are Cookies and How Do They Work?
Websites commonly put cookies, which are small pieces of data, on your browser to store information. This information can be a username to keep you logged in on your next visit or data used to track your visit to the website. If you visited a website you don’t trust, delete that site’s cookies from the iPad Safari web browser. You can also delete your web history. The iPad keeps track of every website you visit, which is helpful for auto-completing website addresses when you try to find them again. However, it is awkward if you don’t want anyone to know you visited a particular website, such as jewelry sites when shopping for your spouse’s anniversary gift.
