Your Edge browser automatically records and saves your browsing history. This helps the browser load URLs quickly, show URLs as you type in the address bar, and help you remember or trace back your browsing. While helpful, there will be times when you need to delete the entire browsing history. For example, to make sure others cannot see your browser history or delete all the old stuff and start clean.
Whatever the reason, the Edge browser lets you delete the browsing history with just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we’ll show a simple way to delete Edge browser history. Let’s get started.
How to Delete Browsing History in the Edge Browser
For those who want to delete the entire browser history in the Edge browser, follow the below steps.
- Open the Edge browser.
- Click the three dots icon on the top right corner.
- Select the Settings option.
- Navigate to the Privacy, search & services tab.
- Click on the Choose what to clear button.
- Select All Time from the Time Range dropdown menu.
- Select the Browsing history checkbox.
- Uncheck all other checkboxes.
- Click the Clear Now button.
Detailed Steps:
First, open the Edge browser. To do that, click the Edge icon on the taskbar or search for it in the Start menu. After opening the Edge browser, click the three dots menu icon and select the Settings option. Alternatively, you can also type “edge:\\settings” in the address bar and press Enter to open the Edge settings page.
On the Settings page, navigate to the “Privacy, search & services” tab on the sidebar. This is where all the privacy and services-related settings are located. Since the browsing history is termed as a privacy feature, you can locate it on this page.
Now, click the “Choose what to clear” button under the Clear Browsing Data section.
Choose “All Time” from the time range drop-down menu. This makes sure that all the browsing data is deleted. If you want some other time range, feel free to select it.
After that, uncheck all the other checkboxes. That way, you can be sure that you are only deleting the browsing history and nothing else.
Finally, click the “Clear Now” button.
As soon as you click the button, Edge will delete the browsing history according to the time range you selected. In our case, that’s the entire browsing history.
That is all. It is that simple to delete browsing history in the Edge browser. If you need help, comment below and we’ll help. Also, did you know that you can now enable vertical tabs in Edge? Do check it out.
