Guide: how to safely delete cookies from Safari on your iPhone

November 21, 2018

Cookies are considered "innocent" in the internet world, but this is not always the case.

A cookie is a small file used to store information on your device that is related to a specific website. This information allows you to avoid logging in every time you visit, for example, Netflix or Amazon. However, other times cookies can be used to track your online activity and for this reason, deleting them from your iPhone would be a good idea.

The process of deleting cookies from Safari is relatively simple, while iPhone offers you several options: deleting them completely from the web browser, deleting history and cookies separately, and deleting cookies for specific websites.

Let's start by deleting them completely from Safari. First, open Settings, find Safari and then go to Clear History and Website data. After you hit that button, you'll be prompted for final permission, select "Clear History and Website Data" and... you're done!

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It is not necessary to delete your Safari history to "disappear" cookies, as you can only delete browser cookies or cookies from a specific website. Let's look at the course of the specific options.

From Settings, navigate to Safari and select the last button on the screen, Advanced. Then select Website data to see the cookies stored by each website you've visited.

There, you can delete all of them by scrolling to the bottom of the screen and selecting Remove All Website Data.

Beyond that, however, you can delete the information of a specific website by selecting Edit at the top right of the screen. You can then click on the desired remove button next to each website to delete only the cookies associated with it. In addition, if you have "flagged" a particular website that you wish to delete, type its name in the search bar at the top of the screen, select Edit, which has been moved to the bottom right, and follow the same procedure.