23 November 2024
What are Cache and History?
Cache and browser history store information about websites you've visited. The Cache stores temporary files, like images and web pages, to speed up loading times for websites you've visited. The Browser history stores all the web pages you've visited using a specific browser.
Why Clearing and Deleting Them?
Clearing your browser's cache and history can protect your privacy. If someone has a tracking app on the iPhone, he can inspect and check the history to find the websites you've previously visited.
Will Such Action Delete also Passwords?
Clearing and deleting cache and history will also remove things like saved passwords, address bar predictions, and shopping cart contents unless you have set the browsers not to delete them. But it will not clear the passwords saved in Apple KeyChain.
How to Create a Shortcut to Automate the Process?
Step by Step
1 Launch the Shortcuts application on your iPhone and iPadFind and select this shortcut icon
in the Home Screen2. Tap the + sign in the top navigation bar.
3. Then tap “add Action” and in the next screen search bar, enter "URL". After that, tap "URL" as shown
4. In this screen, Type or copy and paste exactly the following for the URL:
prefs:root=SAFARI&path=CLEAR_HISTORY_AND_DATA after pressing a few times on "Apple.com" until the "Paste" button appears
This will be what the screen looks like after pasting the URL5. Find the "search action" at the lower half of the screen and enter"Open URLs", then tap the "Open URLs" button
This is what the final screen would look like
6. Now tap the space next to the icon, and in the following screen, give the shortcut a name like "Clear Safari Data". Click "Done" when completed.
7. To create a icon in the Home screen, tap and hold and "..." button on the top "clear Safari Data" shortcut as shown. In the next popup screen, tap "Details", follow by tapping "Add to Home Screen"
8. Now. find the "Clear Safari Data" icon in the Home screen of iPhone.
