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Your reasons for wanting to clear the search history on an iPhone are your business. Maybe you were looking up airline tickets as you plan a surprise anniversary vacation for your spouse, or maybe you were social-media stalking an ex and you'd rather your spouse not know about it.
Or maybe you use an iPhone given to you by your job, and you'd rather not let them know you were researching employment with another company or browsing sites that ask your age before you enter.
No matter why you want to clear the search history off your iPhone's Safari browser, the good news is that it's easy to do. And in fact, it's easy to do in three different ways.How to clear individual pages of history from an iPhone
If you just want to remove that one search you ran or that one site you visited from your iPhone's history, this is how to do it. (And in fact, clearing iPhone history this way will look the least suspicious, as no one will notice a large chunk of your history cleared and wonder why.)
1. Open Safari (that's your web app; it's the one that uses the blue compass icon).
2. Click the history icon at the bottom, which looks like an open book.
Click the history "book" icon.Steven John/Business Insider
3. Scroll down to the search or page you want to remove, and swipe left on it, then tap "Delete," or simply swipe all the way left across the phone and the item will be deleted automatically.
How to clear an hour, day, or two days of history from an iPhone
If you want to remove a larger chunk of your iPhone's online history, again first open the Safari app.1. In Safari, tap the book-like history icon on the bottom.
2. At the bottom of the next page, tap "Clear."
Tap "Clear."Steven John/Business Insider
3. Select how much history you want to clear, from "The last hour" to "Today" to "Today and yesterday" to "All time."
Choose an amount of history you'd like to clear.Steven John/Business Insider
How to clear your iPhone history entirely
If you already know you want to wipe your iPhone's online history out completely, once and for all, perhaps before you sell, exchange, or donate the phone, or before you give it back to your office, go at it a more direct way.
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Scroll down and find Safari, then tap the tab.3. Scroll down and tap "Clear History and Website Data."
Tap "Clear History and Website Data."Steven John/Business Insider
4. Confirm by clicking "Clear History and Data."
Confirm the clearing.Steven John/Business Insider
Just note that this also removes all your cookies, so if you are keeping the phone, prepare to re-enter a lot of usernames and passwords and such.