How to Clear History, Cookies and Cache in Safari Mac?

Everything you do on the safari browser is recorded in terms of history, browser cookies, and cache files. These are recorded and stored as part of the browser system. However, over a period of time, the browser cookies and cache might grow and become huge. Hence, clearing it occasionally should be considered as part of the performance booster.

While history occupies very little space, but it will keep the record of all the websites that we have visited from the last history delete. If you’re using any public computer, always consider deleting the history, clearing cache and cookies from the browser.

Related: How to Clear History, Cookies, and Cache from Safari iOS/iPadOS?

You can also use the private browsing window in safari macOS to keep the things off record.

How to Clear History in Safari Computer?

Here are the steps to clear the browsing history in safari macOS computer:

1. Launch the Safari browser app on a mac computer.
2. Select History from the menubar options.
3. Choose Clear History… option under the History menu.
4. This will open the Clear History dialog window.
5. From drop-down select the date range that you want to delete.
6. Hit on the Clear History command button to remove history from safari.

This will clear all the browsing history from the apple safari browser on mac desktop or laptop. You can choose the date range like last hour, today, today and yesterday, and all the time.

Clearing history will also delete the related information like cookies, cache data, and other website storage from a computer. You can alternatively delete cookies and file cache from safari mac using the below method.

How to Clear Cookies and Cache in Safari Mac?

Here are the steps to clear cookies and cache from the safari mac computer:

1. Launch the Safari browser app on a mac computer.
2. Select Safari from the menubar options.
3. Choose Preferences… option under the Safari menu.
4. Switch to the Privacy tab within the Preferences popup window.
5. Click and open the Manage Website Data… button.
6. Select the Website, and hit on Remove command button

This will clear the browser cookies and cache storage for the selected website from the safari browser on macOS.

If you want to delete the cache and cookies for all websites to date, then hit on Remove All command button at step #6.

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