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How to See Websites Visited with Screen Time on iPhone & iPad

With Screen Time, you can keep an eye on what websites are visited and accessed on an iPhone or iPad. This Screen Time capability is completely separate from searching through Safari browser history to find past viewed websites, as it’s intended to keep track of web usage and what sites have been visited, which can be particularly helpful for iPad or iPhone setup for a child, though there’s obviously many other use cases too.

For some quick background, Screen Time is a feature in modern iOS, iPadOS, and macOS versions that allow users to keep track of their device usage, and it doubles as a set of parental control tools to restrict the content that children and other users are able to access on a device. The ability to view the list of websites visited is one such tool that could come in handy especially if you want to block any unwanted websites that are being accessed from the device.

Let’s take a look at how you can view which websites have been visited by using Screen Time on an iPhone or iPad.

How to View Which Websites Have Been Visited on iPhone or iPad with Screen Time

Before you go ahead with this procedure, keep in mind that you can only access this list if Screen Time is enabled on your device. Now, without further ado, let’s take a look at the necessary steps.

iOS settings icon

That’s how you can see the websites visited on an iOS or iPadOS device with Screen Time. Remember, this only works if Screen Time has been enabled.

It’s worth noting that you can only see the list of websites that were visited using Safari. Therefore, if the person uses third-party browsers like Chrome or Firefox, you won’t be able to keep track of the data. In that case, you can still check that specific browser’s history and then use Screen Time to restrict access to specific websites, or restrict access to a particular app by putting a passcode lock on it or any other restriction you see fit.

When you observe that the user is spending too much time on a specific website, you can set daily limits for that website. Or, if you see that the user is accessing an unwanted site, you can block any website using Screen Time on iPhone or iPad too . Blocking websites using Screen Time should make it inaccessible from any browser and not just Safari.

We highly recommend you to use a Screen Time passcode and keep changing it frequently to make sure the user doesn’t mess around with your Screen Time settings and make unnecessary changes.

Do you use a Mac? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that you can also see the list of websites visited on the Mac using Screen Time in an identical way. Plus, you can also block access to specific websites with Screen Time on macOS if preferred.

Were you able to use Screen Time to see websites viewed from an iPhone or iPad? What other parental control features do you use to restrict the device usage? Let us know your tips, thoughts, and opinions on Apple’s Screen Time in the comments section.

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I would add that the back and forward buttons shown in the 4th screen shot, with the “this week” at the top of the screen are highly useful to narrow down which day you want to check. You can check data usage patterns for specific days or weeks, and it’s very helpful to track habits of loved ones who are misusing/hiding/cheating with the device – such as amount of time, what apps are being used, time of day, etc. I would add that someone could be listening to a podcast or music or the radio while at work, driving, or at school, and it might show up as hours on Safari or YouTube or something, so it’s NOT necessarily that this person is browsing for hours a day. This settings feature is extremely useful to track patterns, catch misbehavior, and to set limits for certain content! I don’t check the history or cache anymore, since people just delete that, and cache (advanced website data) saves all kinds of useless crap that is more confusing than helpful.

Hi. My husband is cheating and he’s clearing all days but it still show on his iPad mini 2 that he was on safari but I can view the website. Is there a way to narrow down the time he was on safari ?

This only shows that he’s using Safari but it doesn’t provide the websites like shown in your screenshot

This only shows me that he’s using Safari it doesn’t list the websites like in the picture.

I was unable to view the websites I recently visited via safari by following the instructions in the article. Is this because I always have private browsing turned in? If so, it could be mentioned in the article, no?

Yes Private Browsing is called private because it does not keep cache, history, or other browsing details on the local device. That is the function of that feature.

However, a connected wi-fi router, ISP, DNS service providers, etc, may still have access to that browsing data via DNS lookups, unsecured data transmission, etc.

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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.

Things You Should Know

  • On iPhone and iPad, 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.

Using iPhone and iPad

Step 1 Open Safari.

  • If needed, you can change your General Settings .

Step 2 Tap the open book icon.

  • 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.

Step 4 Use the search bar to find specific websites.

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

Step 5 To clear your history, tap

  • Tap a time period to delete the history from just that time period. To delete the entire log, select All time .
  • You can also swipe left on individual websites in your history, then click Delete .

Using macOS

Step 1 Open Safari on your Mac.

  • Be sure to update Safari.

Step 2 Click the History menu.

  • 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.

Step 4 Use the search bar to find specific websites.

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

Step 5 To clear your history, click the

  • 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 Safari History on iPhone and Mac [2024]

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Recently a man in the EU discovered that his Safari browsing history was included in his Apple data download. After I discussed the issue with him and compared my data download, it turns out he received a lot more information than I did.

After this experience, I decided to research and learn different ways to manage your Safari browser history on your Mac and iPhone. But before we dive into this, what exactly is the Safari Browsing History and why is it so important?

How To Check Safari Search History on iPhone?

1.  Open Safari .

2.  In the Menu bar, look at the lower right corner of the screen and tap the History icon.

Tap the History icon

A Pop-up window showing the list of all the websites you have visited in Safari will appear. Also, If you want to, you can search the history for particular websites, and do this:

History Pop-Up

3. Enter a phrase into the search bar at the top of the screen.

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This filters just the websites with that particular keyword or phrase. It is also important to know how to clear your Safari Browsing History.

To do this, follow these simple steps below.

How To Check Safari Search History on Mac?

There are a number of ways you can manage your browser history for Safari on both your macOS and iOS. Here are different techniques and how you can do it. First, let´s consider how to view your browsing history.

Time needed:  1 minute

View Your Safari Browsing History on Mac

Open Safari

Follow the simple steps below to view your browsing history on your iPhone as well.

Delete Your Safari Browsing History on your Mac

To clear your browser history on Mac, follow these straightforward steps:

1.  Open Safari.

2. Open the  History Bar  at the top of the screen.

3.  Click the Show All History tab in the Menu bar or press Command (⌘) + Y in Safari, which will take you to the history view.

Show All History

4.  Select Clear History .

Select Clear History

A pop-up menu will come up and it will allow you to choose how far back you want to clear the existing history. This option lets you choose if you want to clear your history from the last hour, day, week, two weeks, a month, or even for all time.

Clear History

5.  Choose your preferred option and click Clear History .

Clear History Option

Great! You have successfully cleared your Safari browsing history on Mac. Now, Let´s see how we can do this for iPhone as well.

Delete Your Safari Browsing History on iPhone

Clearing your browsing history on your iPhone is also easy. Follow these simple steps too:

1.  Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

Open Settings App

2.  Scroll through the options and click on Safari .

Scroll and Click Safari

3.  Again, scroll and find the Clear History and Website Data option.

Clear History and Website Data

4. Tap Clear History and Data .

Clear History and Data

Yes! You have successfully cleared all Browsing History on Mac and iPhone.

Following these next easy steps to remove all the records of the web pages or sites you have visited over the selected period.

Click History Tab

You can also prevent Safari from tracking your browsing history. Let us quickly dive into this too.

Prevent Safari From Tracking Your Browsing History on Mac

Suppose you prevent Safari from tracking the history of the websites you visited. In that case, it means that Safari cannot save any record of the searches you perform or the websites you visit. How can you do this?

2.  Navigate to click Safari in the Menu Ba r .

3.  Select Preferences from the Menu Ba r .

Click Preferences

4.  Next, Click on the Privacy tab.

Select Privacy Tab

5. You´ll see a box that is next to Prevent cross-site tracking, Check the box.

Check Cross-Site Tracking Box

Let me also walk you through how to do this on your iPhone.

Prevent Safari From Tracking Your Browsing History on iPhone

1.  Open the Settings  app.

Open Settings

2.  Scroll down to the bottom and tap Safari .

Click Safari under Settings

3.  On this page as well, scroll down to the Privacy and Security section .

4.  Toggle on the switch that is next to the Prevent Cross-Site Tracking .

Toggle Prevent Crossing-site

You have successfully prevented Safari from tracking your browsing history both on your Mac and iPhone!

If you prefer additional protection for your browsing activity and for your iPhone and Mac overall, we recommend a dedicated antivirus like Intego Internet Security that can block malicious websites from accessing your data.

That is not all. Sometimes, you might not want your Safari Browser to save your browsing history, website data, or even cookies. Using the private browsing mode is the solution to this.

Keep Your Browsing History Private on Mac

To keep your browsing history private on Mac, you need to use the private browsing mode. Follow these very easy and straightforward steps to do this:

2. Look at the top of your screen, select File , and click New Private Window .

Click File, Select New private Window

A new window will be opened and this will disallow Safari from saving your Browsing or search history.

Private Window

This would also restrict Safari from sending auto-fill information to any website you visit while using the window. You can also do the same on your iPhone.

Keep Your Browsing History Private on iPhone

2.  Tap the Page tab in the bottom right corner of the Safari screen.

Click Page Tab

3. Switch the page option to Private .

Select Private option

4. Finally, Click the ‘+’ sign at the bottom left corner to open a new private browser.

Keeping your browsing history private is very important, but in some situations, you may have visited a website by mistake or you don´t want another person to see that you visited the website. In this situation, the best thing you should do is delete the individual website from your Browsing history. Let me quickly show you how to do this:

Delete Individual Websites From Your Browsing History for Mac

To delete individual items or websites from your Safari Browsing history, follow these very easy steps:

1.  Open your Safari Browser .

2.  Click on the History tab in the Menu bar

3.  Select the Show All History tab

Click Show All History

4.  Find the website you want to remove and Right-click   on it.

Choose Website and Right Click

5.  Select the Delete from History option.

Select Delete

Let me quickly walk you through how to do this on iPhone as well.

Delete Individual Websites From Your Browsing History for iPhone

1.  Open the Safari app.

2.  Click the history tab at the bottom right corner of the screen of the browser.

3.  Look for the website you want to delete from your history and swipe left on it.

Swipe left the website and delete

4.  Finally, Tap the Delete  option.

Yeah! You have successfully deleted individual websites from your browsing history. But if you use Safari on multiple devices of yours such as iPhone, Mac, and maybe your iPad, iCloud sync can help you to keep all your history synchronized across all the devices you own. This means that you can start browsing on your iPhone and continue later on your Mac. Let me quickly show you how to set this up.

Manage Your Safari Browsing History Across Multiple Devices Using iCloud Sync

To use the iCloud sync feature, you must have iCloud enabled on all the devices you own and they all need to be signed in to the iCloud with the same Apple ID.

If you have Safari iCloud syncing turned on and you clear your history, it will also be cleared from all of your other Apple devices with iCloud sync enabled. How can you enable and disable iCloud sync for your Safari browsing history on your Mac and iPhone?

Manage Your Safari Browsing History Across Multiple Devices Using iCloud Sync on Mac

2. Select Safari > Preferences > iCloud Option

4. Check the checkbox next to Safari to make sure that it syncs across all your devices

To sync your browsing history across certain devices, do this:

5. Click on the Manage Devices Button and select the devices you want to sync with.

6. Click Done  

Manage Your Safari Browsing History Across Multiple Devices Using iCloud Sync on iPhone

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

2.  Click on your name at the top of the settings screen.

Click Your iCloud name

3.  Tap the iCloud option.

Select iCloud

4.  Under Apps Using iCloud , select Safari.

5.  Finally, toggle on the switch next to Safari.

Toggle on the switch next to Safari.

Great! You have successfully enabled iCloud sync for Safari browsing history and it will be updated on all your devices using the same Apple ID when you visit new websites or close an existing Safari tab.

Suppose you’ve carefully followed the methods and steps I’ve provided in this step-by-step guide. In that case, you will have a great edge over efficiently managing your Safari browsing history on one or even multiple devices.

Which of these methods worked for you?  Feel free to share your thoughts here in the comment section. Also, if you are having problems with iCloud syncing on your devices, check out our guide for effective solutions.

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How to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad

Easily wipe your browsing history in Apple's Safari web browser in seconds.

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How to find your web-browsing history

How to clear your web browsing history.

Clearing your browsing history on iPhone and iPad in Safari has been a straightforward affair for years now.

Sometimes, you may want a fresh start with your web browsing — perhaps to get rid of some history that may bring up a memory you'd rather forget as you type in a website URL in the address bar.

Apple makes this feature very easy to access on both the iPhone and iPad by offering two ways to clear your history. So with this in mind, here's how you can do just that and make a fresh start in Safari .

Viewing your web history in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 is very easy to do — and it's all done from Safari.

  • In Safari, tap the Bookmarks button in the toolbar that's below the address bar.
  • Tap the History icon in the upper right corner. Here, you can view your entire web history.

To search for bookmarks, tap the Bookmarks button in the toolbar at the bottom of the app, then select the Bookmark icon.

  • Use the History search bar to find previously viewed pages.

To find History, tap the History menu. Then use the search to find previously viewed information.

If the time calls to wipe most or all of your web browsing history in Safari, here's how to do it on both iPhone and iPad.

To note, the below steps will be the same if you attempt to wipe your web browsing history on an iPhone 15 Pro Max , and an iPad Mini 6 for example.

  • In Safari, tap the Bookmarks button.
  • Select the History icon in the upper right corner.
  • Tap Clear and select how much history you'd like to clear: the last hour, the last day, 48 hours' worth, or all recorded history.

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It's great to have a feature like this in Safari — but it would be good to have this automated. To tell Apple's web browser to automatically clear history after 24 hours would be very useful, as you wouldn't leave a trail behind.

Regardless, it's still a good feature, and one you should use every week.

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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 a PC, Tablet, or Mobile Device

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.

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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.

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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.

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You have now viewed the recent history on your iPad.

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

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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.

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  • 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.

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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.

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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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How to View Safari History on iPhone

The Safari Web browser on your iPhone keeps a record of the websites you visit.

This can be a useful tool, especially if you’ve already read something and want to go back to it.

Our tutorial below will show you how to view Safari history on iPhone by completing just a few steps.

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How to See Safari History on iPhone 11

  • Launch Safari.
  • At the bottom of the screen, tap the book icon.
  • To examine your history, tap the clock symbol.

Our explanation continues below with further information on seeing your iPhone’s Safari history, as well as screenshots of these procedures.

When you use your computer or smartphone’s Web browser without using a private browsing session, the browser saves your browsing history.

When iPhone users are concerned about their phone’s browsing history, they frequently want to delete it. That history, though, can be valuable.

It can assist you with locating an intriguing article that you read earlier but can’t remember the address for, or it can assist you in determining which store had the greatest pricing on a product that you were looking at from a range of various retailers.

When you use the Safari Web browser on your iPhone, it saves a history of all the pages you visit.

Possessing this history makes it much easier to return to a previously visited page, as you can access that history and simply tap on the page that you want to visit.

Our article below will show you how to quickly discover and use your Safari iPhone history.

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How to Locate Safari History on Your iPhone (Guide with Pictures)

The procedures in this post were carried out using an iPhone 11 running iOS 13.6.1. The same methods will work on most other iOS versions and iPhone models.

If you’ve updated to iOS 15, your address bar may now be at the bottom of the screen. If this is the case, your screen may differ from the examples in the guide below. Yet, the buttons for accessing the history remain in the same locations.

Step 1: Launch the Safari browser.

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Step 2: Tap the icon that looks like an open book at the bottom of the screen.

tap the book icon

Step 3: Click the clock-shaped tab at the top of the screen.

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Now that you know how to discover your Safari history iPhone data, you may utilize it to find information that you previously saw and either wanted to double-check or share with someone else.

You should now be able to see your browsing history. You can navigate to the page by tapping on an item in the list. Individual Web pages in this history can be deleted by swiping to the left and hitting the Delete button.

Your browser’s search history will be mixed in with the pages you’ve visited. This implies that the terms you entered in the search field at the top or bottom of the screen will be visible as well. Depending on your selected search engine, your search phrases will appear beside domains such as “google.com” or “bing.com.”

Continue reading our tutorial below for more information on locating and using history data in your iPhone’s Safari browser.

Further Details about Checking Safari History on iPhone

It is important to note that Safari does not save your history for pages visited while using Private Browsing. Toggling between ordinary and private browsing is as simple as touching the Tabs icon (two overlapping squares) at the bottom of the screen and selecting the Private option.

Safari also does not save browsing history for other iPhone browsers, such as Google Chrome or Firefox. Instead, you’d have to open those browsers to see their history.

Also, deleting the browsing history for Safari will only affect the browsing history for the Safari app. Other browsers’ history menus will remain accessible on your iOS device unless you opt to delete the existing data for those browsers as well.

Go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data to remove your Safari history. This will also clear your cookies and log you out of any accounts you are presently signed into.

When you remove Safari’s browser history, you won’t be able to view Safari history for any browsing sessions that occurred before the deletion. Safari will only display your Online surfing history when that information has been removed.

If you haven’t erased Safari history previously, your browser history can be quite large. Normally, the device’s full history will be available for 30 days.

How to Lookup Safari History on an iPhone

Searching through your iPhone Safari history is another intriguing thing you can do with it.

When you open Safari, press the book symbol at the bottom of the screen, then select the History tab at the top of the screen, you’ll notice a “Search History” area.

When you tap inside that field and type a search query, you’ll see a list of pages from your history that contain those search terms.

This is especially useful if you recall a single word or term but don’t remember where you saw it or the name of the website where you saw it.

If you have another browser installed on your iPhone, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, those browsers will also retain history, which you may search through in the same way.

Commonly Asked Questions About iPhone History in Safari

How can i view my iphone’s safari history.

By opening Safari and clicking the book symbol at the bottom of the screen, you may access the history of all Web pages you’ve visited in the iPhone Safari Web browser.

Then, at the top of the window, select the tab with the clock on it. This is your browsing history, arranged chronologically. You may either search through it or scroll down to see everything. Touching on a location in your past will take you there.

How can I view my whole Safari history?

When you pick the book symbol, and then the History tab in the Safari browser on your iPhone , the full Safari history that is available is displayed.

To view your whole history in the Safari app on a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air, go to the History tab and then click on Show All History.

How long does the iPhone Safari history last?

The Web sites you visit in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch’s Safari browser are saved for one month.

Safari history on a Mac is retained for one year.

How can you check your iPhone’s history?

On your iPhone, you can view your history at any moment by launching Safari, selecting the open book button, and then pressing on the History symbol to see a list of Web pages that you have viewed.

Pages viewed in Private tabs, as well as pages viewed in other Web browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, are not included in this history.

To view the history in Chrome, open the browser, hit the three dots in the bottom-right corner, and then tap the History button.

To view the history in Firefox, launch the Firefox iPhone app, tap the three lines in the bottom-right corner, and then select the History option.

It is important to note that the history displayed in the Safari browser on your iPhone is distinct from the history displayed in other phone browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Also, clearing the history in Safari does not remove the history in the other browsers, and vice versa.

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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 History iPhone: How to See It [2023 Guide]

To view your browsing history in Safari on your iPhone, start by launching the Safari app. Once open, locate the Bookmarks button, symbolized by an icon resembling a book, positioned at the lower part of your screen. Upon tapping this icon, a menu will present itself. Look for the History button, represented by a clock icon, situated at the top part of the menu. By selecting this clock icon, you will gain access to your Safari browsing history, which displays a comprehensive list of all web pages you’ve visited.

Our guide continues below with additional information on seeing Safari history iPhone information, including pictures of these steps.

You can also check out our video about viewing the iPhone Safari history for more on this topic.

If you see a clock at the top of your screen and don’t know what it’s for, then our clock icon on iPhone guide can answer that question.

How to Find Your iPhone’s Safari History (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 11 in iOS 13.6.1. These same steps will work on most other versions of iOS and most other iPhone models.

If you have updated to iOS 15 then your address bar may be at the bottom of the screen now. If so, your screen may look different than the one in the guide below. However, the buttons you must tap to find the history are still in the same spots.

Step 1: Open the Safari Web browser.

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Step 2: Touch the icon at the bottom of the screen that looks like an open book.

touch the book icon

Step 3: Select the tab at the top of the screen with a clock on it.

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Now that you know how to find your Safari history iPhone data, you will be able to use it to locate information that you had previously seen and either wanted to check or wanted to share with someone else.

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You should now see your browsing history. You can tap on an item in that list to visit the page. You can delete individual Web pages from this history by swiping to the left on them and tapping the Delete button.

Your search history in the browser will be comingled with the pages that you have visited. This means that the terms you typed into the search bar at the top or bottom of the screen will also be visible. Depending on your default search engine you will see your search terms listed alongside domains like “google.com” or “bing.com.

Continue reading our tutorial below for additional discussion on finding and using the Safari history iPhone information in your iPhone’s default Web browser.

If you need to see a history of the files you have downloaded, then our my downloads history tutorial can help you to find that information on your laptop or desktop.

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Note that Safari does not store your history for pages that you have visited while using Private Browsing. You can toggle between regular and private browsing by touching the Tabs icon (it looks like two overlapping squares) at the bottom of the screen and selecting the Private option.

Safari also does not store browsing history for other browsers on your iPhone , such as Google Chrome or Firefox. You would need to open those browsers to view their histories instead.

Additionally, if you have deleted browsing history for Safari, it will only affect the browsing history for the Safari app. You will still be able to access the history menu for other browsers on your iOS device until you choose to remove the existing data for those browsers, too.

You can delete your Safari history by going to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data . This will also delete cookies and log you out of any accounts to which you are currently logged in.

Once you have deleted browser history in Safari, you won’t be able to view Safari history for any browsing sessions that occurred prior to the deletion. Safari will only show your Web browsing history that has occurred after that information was deleted.

Your Safari browser history can be pretty extensive if you haven’t deleted Safari history before. Typically the full history that is available on the device will go back 30 days.

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How to Search Safari History iPhone Data

One of the other interesting things that you can do with your iPhone Safari history is to search through it.

If you open Safari, then tap the book icon at the bottom of the screen and choose the History tab at the top of the screen, you will see a “Search History” field.

If you tap inside that field and type a search term, you will see the pages from your history that include those search terms.

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This is especially handy if you can remember a single word or term that you are looking for but don’t remember where you saw it or the name of the page where you saw it.

If you have another browser on your iPhone, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox , those browsers will also store history that you can search through in a similar manner.

How to Clear Browsing History in the Safari Mobile App

There are two different ways to clear browser history for the Safari iPhone app .

The first option requires you to go to Settings > Safari > tap Clear History and Website Data > then tap Clear History and Data to confirm.

The second option lets you have a little more control over your previously visited sites, and you can choose some parameters for what of your recent history you remove.

You can do this by opening Safari , tapping the Bookmark icon, selecting the History tab, then selecting the Clear option at the bottom-right of the screen.

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Here you can choose to delete history from All time, Today and yesterday, Today, or The last hour.

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Frequently Asked Questions About iPhone History in Safari

How do i see safari history on my iphone.

You can find the history of all of the Web pages that you have visited in the iPhone Safari Web browser by opening Safari, then tapping the book icon at the bottom of the screen.

You can then select the tab at the top of the window with the clock on it. This is your browsing history, sorted by date. You can search through it, or you can scroll down to see everything. Tapping on an entry in your history will take you to that location.

How can I see my full Safari history?

In the Safari browser on your iPhone the full Safari history that is available is what is shown when you select the book icon and then the History tab.

To see your full history in the Safari app on a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air you would need to select the History tab, then click on See All History .

How long does iPhone Safari keep history?

the Web pages that you visit in the Safari browser on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch are kept for one month.

The Safari history on a Mac is kept for one year.

How do you check history on iPhone?

You can check your history on your iPhone at any time by opening Safari, choosing the open book button, then tapping on the History icon to see the list of Web pages that you have visited.

Note that pages viewed in Private tabs are not included in this history, nor are pages that you visit in other Web browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

If you want to see the history in Chrome then you would need to open that browser, tap the three dots at the bottom-right, then tap the History button.

If you want to see the history in Firefox then you would need to open the Firefox iPhone app, touch the three lines at the bottom-right, then choose the History option.

Note that the history you see in the Safari browser on your iPhone is separate from the history that you might see in other browsers on the phone, like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Additionally, if you clear the history in Safari it won’t clear the history for those other browsers, and vice versa.

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Summary – How to View History on Safari on iPhone 11

  • Open Safari .
  • Touch the book icon at the bottom of the screen.
  • Tap the clock icon to view your history.

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The Safari Web browser on your iPhone keeps a log of the web pages that you have visited.

This Safari browsing history can be a beneficial feature, especially if you have previously read some information and want to return to it.

When you use the Web browser on your computer or smartphone, and you aren’t using a private browsing session, the browser stores your browsing history.

Often when people are concerned about the browsing history on their phone, they are interested in deleting it. However, that browsing data history can be useful.

It can help you find an interesting article that you read earlier and can’t remember the address, or it can help you see which store had the best price on a product that you were checking out from various retailers.

When you are using the Safari Web browser on your iPhone 11, the browser will store a history of all the pages that you visit.

Having this history makes it much easier for you to return to a page that you have visited previously, as you can open that history and tap on the page that you would like to visit.

Our guide above has shown you how to quickly locate your Safari iPhone history so that you can use it.

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How to View Safari History on iPhone in 5 Simple Ways?

Viewing your Safari history on your iPhone can be quite useful. Whether you're looking to revisit a webpage you recently visited, want to keep track of your browsing habits, or need to delete some of your history for privacy reasons, it's essential to know how to navigate this feature.

This article will guide you through the methods about how to view Safari history on iPhone. You'll also learn how to manage your browsing history, including deleting individual sites or clearing it all at once. So, let's dive in and learn more about checking and managing your Safari history on your iPhone!

Way 1. How to Check Safari History on iPhone in Settings

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  • Way 5. How to View Safari History on iPhone with Assistant for iOS [HOT!]

FAQs on Safari History on iPhone

Your iPhone's Safari browser keeps track of the websites you visit, making it convenient to revisit recently accessed pages or to find information you've looked up before. This browsing history is accessible through the Safari app itself, but you can also view it within the Settings app. Here's how to check history on iPhone in settings:

  • Launch the "Settings" app on your iPhone.
  • Scroll down until you find and tap on "Safari" to access its settings.
  • Scroll down within the Safari settings until you reach the "Advanced" section.
  • Inside the "Advanced" section, tap on "Website Data" to view any deleted history that's still stored on your device.

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In the latest version of Safari for iOS, browsing history is now searchable, making it easier than ever to find previously visited websites. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to find search history on iPhone:

  • Launch the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad. The icon looks like an open book.
  • Tap on the "Bookmarks" button, which is the icon at the bottom of the screen that looks like an open book.
  • Select the "History" tab from the list of options.
  • At the top of the History section, you'll see a search box labeled "Search History." Tap on it.
  • Type in the search term for the history you're trying to find. Safari will automatically start filtering your history as you type.
  • As you type, Safari will populate the search results below. Each result will show the website's title, URL, and a snippet of text from the page.
  • To open one of the search results, simply tap on it. Safari will immediately load that webpage.
  • When you're done, tap the "x" button in the search box or tap "Cancel" to return to your browsing history.

iCloud serves as a digital locker for your iPhone data, safeguarding it in the cloud. One of its features, iCloud Backup, routinely stores all your iPhone content. Therefore, if you unintentionally erase your Safari history, you can retrieve it from iCloud Backup .

However, bear in mind that this process necessitates erasing all current data on your iPhone. Here's how to find browsing history on iPhone using iCloud Backup:

  • Open "Settings" on your iPhone, then tap "General."
  • Select "Reset" and opt for "Erase All Content and Settings."

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  • Follow the on-screen instructions. During the 'Apps & Data' phase, tap "Restore from iCloud Backup."
  • Log in to your iCloud account, and select the backup containing the deleted Safari history. Your deleted data will be restored, allowing you to peruse your former records. This is how you access your history using iCloud Web.

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There are iPhone users who opt to use iTunes to back up their devices. This approach allows them to access their iPhone's browsing history within the iTunes backup. iTunes is able to cover nearly all aspects of your iPhone, including browser history. This means that if you mistakenly delete your browsing history , you have the option to restore it from your iTunes backup.

However, it's important to note that when you restore old data from iTunes, any new data added to your iPhone since the last backup will be overwritten and lost. ( How to recover deleted Safari history on iPhone without data loss ?)

Here's how to find search history on iPhone from an iTunes backup:

  • Connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC using a USB cable. If you're using a Mac, use the Finder app. If you're on a PC, open iTunes.
  • Click on your iPhone's icon to select your device.
  • Next, choose "Restore Backup" from the list of options.

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  • Then, select the backup that contains the browser history you want to recover.
  • Finally, click "Restore" and wait for the process to complete.

Way 5. How to View Safari History on iPhone with Assistant for iOS

MobiKin Assistant for iOS stands out as an intelligent iOS data exporting tool. Not only does it facilitate the effortless exportation of Safari history from iOS devices to computers, but it also enables users to access this crucial history at any time, even when their iOS device is unavailable. However, this iPhone data exporter boasts a plethora of other functionalities that users may find invaluable. Here are its standout features:

Main Features of MobiKin Assistant for iOS:

  • Facilitates the transfer of data between iPads/iPhones/iPod touches and computers, supporting both directions.
  • Provides the option to selectively or comprehensively back up data, offering enhanced flexibility.
  • Enables users to preview data before exporting, ensuring they select only the files they need.
  • Can seamlessly export over 18 types or versions of files, including contacts, messages, notes, calendars, bookmarks, music, and photos, among others.
  • Compatible with almost all models of iPhone, iPad, and iPod, including the latest iPhone 15 and 14 series.

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Here's the simplest and most effective way to transfer and view your iPhone's Safari history on your computer using MobiKin Assistant for iOS, along with its advanced features:

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the computer

Download and Launch MobiKin Assistant for iOS on your computer. Connect your iPhone to the computer via a USB data cable.

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Step 2: Select the Safari bookmarks you need

Once your device is detected by Assistant for iOS, navigate to the left sidebar. Select the file types you wish to export. In this case, click on "Safari History," or any other files you want to transfer.

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Step 3: Export and view Safari bookmarks on computer

After selecting the Safari history you want to export, click on "Export" and choose a location on your computer to save them.

Now, you have successfully transferred all your Safari history to your computer. You can freely browse and use them on your computer at any time.

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Q1: How to clear Safari browser history on iPhone?

If you're experiencing sluggish performance on your iPhone or simply wish to clear your website data for privacy reasons, follow these steps to clear cookies and browser history:

  • Launch Safari and tap on the "Bookmarks" icon located in the toolbar.
  • Select the clock icon situated in the top right corner.
  • Choose "Clear" to erase all your browsing history.

Q2: How long does the iPhone Safari history last?

The Safari history on your iPhone can last for an extended period, depending on your browsing habits and storage capacity. By default, Safari saves your browsing history indefinitely. However, you can manually delete it at any time.

If you have iCloud enabled, your Safari history might also be included in your iCloud backup, preserving it as long as the backup is maintained. The "Clear History and Website Data" option under "Settings" > "Safari" > "Clear History and Website Data" can also affect this. If set to "Never," your history remains until you manually clear it or restore your iPhone. In summary, your Safari history can last indefinitely unless deleted or overwritten during a backup or restore process.

Wrapping Up

Learning how to go to history on iPhone can greatly enhance your browsing experience. With Safari being the default browser for iOS devices, it's essential to understand how to access this feature for efficient browsing. This tutorial provides five different methods to view your Safari bookmarks, ensuring you can choose the one that works best for you.

Furthermore, if you want to access your Safari browsing history without a backup, MobiKin Assistant for iOS is a reliable option. This iPhone Data Exporter offers a comprehensive solution to extract, view, and export all your iDevice data, including Safari browsing history. This comprehensive summary underscores the importance of learning how to view Safari bookmarks on your iPhone, and the versatile solutions available to do so.

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Safari User Guide

  • Change your homepage
  • Import bookmarks, history, and passwords
  • Make Safari your default web browser
  • Go to websites
  • Find what you’re looking for
  • Bookmark webpages that you want to revisit
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  • Zoom in on webpages
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  • Browse privately
  • Autofill user name and password info
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Clear your browsing history in Safari on Mac

You can remove all records that Safari keeps of where you’ve browsed during a period of time you choose. If your Mac and your other devices have Safari turned on in iCloud preferences , your browsing history is removed from all of them. Clearing your browsing history in Safari doesn’t clear any browsing histories kept independently by websites you visited.

Open Safari for me

Choose how far back you want your browsing history cleared.

When you clear your history, Safari removes data it saves as a result of your browsing, including:

History of webpages you visited

The back and forward list for open webpages

Frequently visited site list

Recent searches

Icons for webpages

Snapshots saved for open webpages

List of items you downloaded (downloaded files aren’t removed)

Websites added for Quick Website Search

Websites that asked to use your location

Websites that asked to send you notifications

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How To Check Browsing History in Safari

Sometimes there are instances where you need to go back and check browsing history in Safari. Maybe you are trying to remember some information you saw on the Internet. Perhaps you want to go back and bookmark a website in your Safari browser .

Whatever the reason may be, you can easily check your Safari history in just a few steps.

Let’s take a look at how to do that.

Check Browsing History in Safari

Launch the Safari browser on your desktop. It’s a blue and white icon with a compass.

Once the Safari browser is up and running select “History” from the menu on the top left and click on it. When the drop down menu appears, highlight and click on “Show All History.”

Click on history then show all history in safari browser

Once you have selected “Show All History” a separate window will appear with a full list of all the websites you have visited. These will be combined by dates with a drop down of each day being made available.

Note: If you are logged into your Apple ID on your desktop, you will be able to see websites you have visited on your iPhone and/or iPad as well.

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You can scroll through this list and find what you need. You can use the drop downs to find sites you visited on specific dates.

Furthermore, you can use the “Search” box on the upper right side of the screen to search specific sites and pull them up in your Safari history.

Search for specific sites by using the search box

You can also clear your entire Safari history or portions of it if you need.

That’s it! It is very simple and easy to check browsing history in Safari whenever the need arises.

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How to view Safari history time stamps?

Hi. I want to view the history time stamps of the websites accessed on Safari. Every major browser has this feature and it's absurd Safari still doesn't have it built in!

I read this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7958461 but there is no metadata in the caches file! seems it has been replaced in the newer versions of the Mac OS!

Mac OS version: 10.15.2

Safari version: 13.0.4

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

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It is nearly impossible to get history time stamp with newer version of Safari even if you try

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Book Review

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster: 480 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.

“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin set out to write.

Dominating this often fascinating volume is both the colossal presence and the sudden absence of Richard “Dick” Goodwin, Doris’ late husband, whose speechwriting talents defined some of the most memorable moments of the 1960s. The couple’s aim was to co-write a book based on his extraordinary archive — 300 boxes! — of personal papers and curios, from voluminous speech drafts to a shattered police club from the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Husband and wife spent years perusing and discussing those treasures, an effort short-circuited by his death in 2018, at 86, of cancer. Amid her grief and a move from their rambling home in Concord, Mass., to a Boston condo, Goodwin took up the project on her own.

Book jacket, "An Unfinished Love Story"

She describes the result as a hybrid of history, biography and memoir. At its most poignant, “An Unfinished Love Story” is, as the title indicates, an account of personal loss. It also turns out to be a reflection on the process of constructing history, suggesting how time, perspective and stories left unwritten can shape our view of the past.

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Goodwin, the author of award-winning biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and others, has a nice touch as a storyteller. Here she successfully navigates the awkward feat of weaving together the couple’s gently probing conversations, her husband’s archival documentation, other historical sources and her own reporting.

“An Unfinished Love Story” offers a bird’s-eye view of familiar events, and of a decade marked by both idealism and political violence. “Too often,” Goodwin writes, with her characteristic optimism, “memories of assassination, violence, and social turmoil have obscured the greatest illumination of the Sixties, the spark of communal idealism and belief that kindled social justice and love for a more inclusive vision of America.”

While arguing for this rosier perspective, the book provides nuance and detail on matters such as the origins of the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress, Robert F. Kennedy’s private agonies over whether to challenge LBJ for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968, and Jackie Kennedy’s emotional struggles after her husband’s 1963 assassination. In a 1966 letter from Hawaii, Jackie addresses Dick Goodwin, her close friend, as a fellow “lost soul” and complains of “memories that drag you down into a life that can never be the same.” That is a sentiment that Doris Kearns Goodwin understands.

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She and the then-married Goodwin — with his “curly, disheveled black hair,” “thick, unruly eyebrows” and “pockmarked face” — met at Harvard in 1972, where she taught a popular course on the American presidency. He had left the Johnson administration in 1965, three years before she joined it, and had become disillusioned with the Vietnam War. Despite having penned her own antiwar piece for the New Republic, she would become an LBJ confidante, an aide on his presidential memoirs and a lifelong admirer.

Not just a speechwriter but a policy advisor and political strategist, Dick Goodwin enjoyed a Zelig-like march through 20th century American history. President of the Harvard Law Review and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Goodwin worked for two presidents, John F. Kennedy and Johnson, and several would-be presidents, including Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy. He later wrote the concession speech that Al Gore delivered after the Supreme Court stopped the recount of the 2000 presidential election vote in Florida.

According to his widow, Goodwin idolized the coolly self-possessed JFK, fused with LBJ, regarded McCarthy as “the most original mind” he’d encountered in politics and adored RFK, his best friend of the bunch. (No mention is made here of the seamier side of these politicians’ lives, or how their sexual indiscretions bear on their legacies.)

Nearly every Democratic leader seems to have sought the services of the brilliant, cigar-smoking, workaholic Goodwin. But, as “An Unfinished Love Story” makes clear, he was more than a pen for hire. Goodwin had passionately held views about civil rights, the alleviation of poverty and other issues. As Johnson’s principal speechwriter, he helped fashion both the title and the programs of the Great Society. He was responsible for LBJ’s single most powerful speech, on behalf of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which coopted the anthem of the civil rights movement: “We Shall Overcome.”

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Goodwin left the Johnson administration, against the president’s wishes, to pursue a solo writing career. Over time, his public stance against American involvement in Vietnam pitted him against his former boss. “It’s like being bitten by your own dog,” Johnson said of Goodwin’s defection.

Goodwin was, at heart, deeply loyal, his widow suggests, even if he sometimes chose loyalty to principles over personal attachments. On the other hand, when a previously hesitant Bobby Kennedy entered the 1968 Democratic primary race against McCarthy, friendship prevailed, and Goodwin switched sides, as he had earlier warned McCarthy he would. The RFK assassination, following victory in the California Democratic primary (and Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder earlier that year), was shattering for Goodwin, as for so many others.

“An Unfinished Love Story” is at its most moving when it touches on the Goodwins’ long, happy, occasionally contentious marriage; its bumpy origins (after becoming a widower, he wasn’t as ready to commit as she was); and his emotional farewell. Always attuned to relationships, Goodwin is an astute chronicler of her own.

Beyond underlining the brighter side of the 1960s, the archive and the conversations it prompted changed the couple’s views of the two presidents they served. She gained a deeper appreciation of the impact of Kennedy’s idealism, she writes, while her husband moderated his long-standing bitterness toward Johnson. Embedded in that rapprochement is an unstated hope: that more knowledge and informed debate might somehow ease our country’s current political polarization as well.

Julia M. Klein is a cultural reporter and critic in Philadelphia.

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