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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. When you surf the Internet, you use two mandatory tools for this task - a browser and search engine(in RuNet this is most often Yandex).

Both of them know how to lead and store history of your visits, page views and search queries that you entered. If necessary, you can restore the chronology of events and find the page that you opened yesterday, or the query that you entered into Yandex search six months ago. It is very comfortable.

But often the opposite situation arises, when you need to erase all traces of your activity on the network. In this case, you have a question: how to delete history in Yandex? How to “clean up after yourself” in your browser? How to find and remove all other traces?

Today I just want to draw your attention to this topic. We will talk about both cleaning your searches and deleting all traces of your online activities in your browser (including the Yandex browser).

How to view the history of searches and views in Yandex?

As I mentioned above, history is kept not only by the browser, but also by search engines. For example, in Yandex, a special set of tools called "My Finds".

P.S. Unfortunately, Yandex developers considered this functionality unnecessary (unclaimed by users) and removed it completely. Now you won’t be able to dig into the history of your searches. Although, it seems they left it.
I decided not to delete the information below so that you can see what it all looked like before, if anyone finds it interesting.

It is there that you can delete the entire history of your communication with this search engine and, if desired, completely refuse to keep a log of your views and visits (although it may be useful, for example, in order to restore a page lost in bookmarks to which you came from Yandex, which is very convenient).

Which is used by more than half of RuNet users. Recently, we already looked at its settings, in particular, we talked in detail about, and also discussed in detail the issue: at a professional level. But the settings of this search engine are not limited to this, because there are also settings for the history of your visits, which are definitely worth touching on.

So, first you will need to go to the main page of this search engine. It is from this that we can get to the settings section we need, which are accessible from the drop-down menu of the gear located in the right top corner.

We select the lowest item “Other settings”, and on the page that opens we will be interested in, in terms of studying the history of your actions in Yandex, two items of the menu given there:

When you click on the item “Search results settings” you can at the very bottom of the page that opens allow or block the search engine from logging with the history of your search queries, pages visited, and you can also separately prohibit or allow the use of this data to generate search results and search suggestions.

Here you can only sort of disable or enable history recording, but you can see what has already been recorded by clicking on the inscription “My finds” (in both screenshots above). Here you will find a lot of interesting things and will be able to restore previously found but then lost information. Yandex search history is quite a powerful tool:

Here, using the switch located in the upper left corner, you can again stop or re-enable event log recording. In the left column you can separately view the history of your search queries, products in the Yandex Market store, and you can also save and download (export) all this data if necessary.

At the very top there is a time line, which will very quickly allow you to move to the moment where you want to find something or, conversely, delete it from the history of your visits on Yandex. If you have accumulated a huge number of requests, views and other requests, you can use history search, whose line is located directly above the timeline. Oddly enough, this is not at all an obvious action - searching according to search results.

How to partially delete or completely clear history in Yandex?

P.S. As I wrote above, Yandex completely destroyed the “My Finds” service, but the opportunity remained "Clear query history" on the linked page. There you can click on the button of the same name.

As you've probably already noticed, you don't have to clear the entire history, but delete some individual requests or pages visited, simply by clicking on the cross next to them. Will be deleted this request and all the pages you went to when searching for the answer to it.

For example, when viewing the Yandex Market magazine, you can delete individual viewed products from it, or you can clear the entire history using the button of the same name located at the top:

By the way, I forgot to say that the search history will be saved (written) only if you are authorized in Yandex (you can see your login in the upper right corner). If you are not authorized, then no “My Finds” will be available to you, which means there will be nothing to clear.

Yandex, of course, still conducts its internal statistics, but there you will only appear as the IP address of your computer or as the one through which you searched. You won’t be able to delete this history (only), but almost no one will be able to access it, so you don’t have to worry about it. IMHO.

If you want to, . If this doesn’t seem enough, then , which allows you to leave virtually no traces on the network, so you don’t have to delete your history on Yandex or anywhere else.

Yes, I almost forgot to tell you, how to clear all Yandex history en masse, not one at a time. To do this, on the “My Finds” page you will need to click on the “Settings” button located in the upper right corner:

Well, on the page that opens you can both stop recording and completely clear the already accumulated history using the button there:

This is all about the search engine and the statistics of your activity maintained in it.

How to view and clear Yandex Browser history?

However, the history is kept not only by the search engine, but also by the browser you use. If this is enough (see), then it also keeps a history of views and pages you visited, which means there may be an urgent need to clear it. How to do it? Let's get a look.

To call the history clearing window, you can use key combination Ctrl+Shift+Delete, while in the browser window, or go from the button menu with three horizontal stripes in the browser settings and find the “Clear history” button there.

In both cases, the same window will open for deleting the history of your Internet browsing using the Yandex browser:

Here you need to select the period for which the entire history will be deleted (for complete cleaning It’s better to choose the “All time” option, check the required fields, and click on the corresponding button below. That's it, your browser history will be completely cleared.

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Clearing search history on Android

NOTE: All pictures were taken on a Samsung Galaxy A3 phone - yours may have some differences.

To clear your search history, launch the application Google search, and follow the instructions below.

Click on the button marked with three lines in the top left corner of the screen behind the Google logo.

Select Settings.

The screen will open a row various options. Go to "Personal Information".

Now select “Track Activity”.

Scroll down the screen and tap on "MANAGE HISTORY"

Now in the search, click on “Three dots” and select “Select delete option.”

Now click on “Today” (below “Delete by date”).

Now all that remains is to select all the time and click “Delete”.

That's it - your search history is completely cleared. Congratulations.

How to delete browsing history in the Chrome browser on an Android phone

Removing website browsing in Chrome on a smartphone or tablet is quite simple.

Launch Chrome on your Android phone and click on the button in the top right corner of the screen with three dots on it.

From the drop-down menu, select "History".

In the window that appears, you can manually delete pages from memory individually or clear all browsing data at once - select “Clear history”.

Specify for what time and what data and click “DELETE DATA” (I select all time and all data).

If you plan to do this often, select "don't ask" - the device will remember your choice in the future.

Deleting browsing history on an Android phone in the Yandex browser

The process of clearing your browsing history in the Yandex browser is similar to deleting it on a computer.

Select the “Confidentiality” tab, open the “Clear data” section and indicate what data you want to delete.

To do this, put little birds next to the lines. Last step- click “Clear data”. If a confirmation request appears, we confirm it.

ATTENTION: there you can also prohibit saving visited sites in the Yandex browser on your phone, then you will no longer need to clean and delete them in the future.

That's all. In the near future I will write how to clean and delete saved memory in YouTube, VKontakte, calls, downloads, Instagram, Viber, Skype, and keyboard applications. Good luck.

Previously, in order to use a computer, you had to first install some kind of system. Now a computer without Internet is useless, and to use it you definitely need to install a browser, and also use some kind of search engine. Human memory is incapable of retaining great amount pages and their contents, therefore, our tools provide a function for saving browsing history. You can set up saving for specific requests, or keep saves every day for up to a year.

Yandex browser history on phone and computer

The problem is not as complicated as it might seem at first glance. Conventionally, we can divide the task into the following subparagraphs:

View;
Removal/cleaning;
Synchronization;
Storage location on the “machine”;

Step 1: View history

Everything you have ever viewed through a search engine is saved in the browser logs. Whether on the phone or on the computer, the process is the same. To view the logs, click on the three dashes and select history (the icon in the form of a watch face).

Triggers responsible for log usage rights are located in the “Search result settings” item. There you can configure the logs to work differently: “activate” and “disable”. The “My Find” menu will allow you to view the already recorded results, just click. The trigger on the left side of the screen activates and deactivates the function. In the left column you can separately view the history of requests by various criteria, including the visual and audio components of the content. I'm glad that you can export when working with the Yandex store (translation) service.

Point 2: Clearing/deleting history

Note: If you don't want to bother with uninstallation or you ardent supporter anonymity, there is a special “incognito” function for you. To open a window in hidden mode, press right click- open in incognito mode.

You can clear your browser history by using the “hotcase” - (control - shift - delete) when open window browser or select three bars, and then select the “Clear history” menu. The tool provides us fine tuning removal:

Deleting each page individually;
By months and weeks;
Deleting cache/cookies and so on;

Point 3: Synchronization

Very useful opportunity, freeing you from the need to manually transfer configs from one system to another when reinstalling Windows. Select 3 bars at the top of the browser, then in the “synchronization” item, enter your authorization data.

Select “enable synchronization”. At this moment, it is possible to install additional “apps” from Yandex. Once completed, click “close.”

Point 4: Save folder

Of course, if something goes wrong, first of all we are interested in the question: where are the configs located? Located in system disk, go to the "Start - Search" menu and enter "history.bak".

Most likely, it will be in the “default” folder. That's all, one file with complex data.

More than half of users prefer search in Yandex mobile internet, using for this device based on Android OS. Since the search engine, as well as the solutions it has developed, in particular the Yandex browser, saves the search queries you enter, the pages you visit and other information, you need to know how to delete history in Yandex to ensure unavailability personal information other people who may have access to your tablet or smartphone.

Note! Often, search users using Yandex and the browser of the same name confuse the displayed search bar As the request is formed, a summary with the search queries entered earlier. The guide is generated automatically by the search engine and cannot be deleted or disabled. The history of search queries is corrected by deleting data for individual periods or for the entire period of use.

What methods to do this

To figure it out how to clear history in the Yandex browser, you need to delve into the features of storing the history of search queries. So, provided that you are logged into your Yandex account in the browser, all search queries and history will be stored on the device and duplicated in online service storing search engine user data.

Thus, even after deleting history from the browser on the device, using the Yandex search engine from another mobile device or personal computer, you (or other users who have access to it) will see traces of search queries and other information deleted from the device.

Based on this, it is important to understand that in order to completely exclude the possibility of access to your personal information according to actions in Yandex search, you need to not only clear browser history on mobile device under Android control, but also erase search history in Yandex global settings.

Delete history in Yandex browser

Yandex browser allows delete not only the history and queries specified from under it, but also exported from the browser pre-installed in the system, provided that during installation and initial setup Yandex Browser you have given consent to export. To do this you will need to perform the following steps:

Launch Yandex browser. Click the icon with Latin letter S, which takes you to the navigation menu between tabs.
To go to the history menu, click on the clock icon.

Click on the history menu to open a list of visited pages. Note! You can selectively clear your history. At the same time, visited sites are deleted and the rest remain unchanged. It makes sense to use this in the case when you need to delete individual visits while preserving the remaining data.

Sometimes it's more rational to completely cleanse history of online activity. To do this, follow these steps:

Click on the icon with three vertical dots. Some devices do not have this icon. In this case, touch contextual button“Menu” located at the bottom of the screen of a smartphone or tablet.

In the menu that opens, tap on the “Settings” item. The browser will take you to new screen, which contains controls for the capabilities of the Yandex browser. We do not recommend changing the settings on this screen, except for those that we will talk about later, if you do not understand their purpose.
Go to the section called "Privacy".

Make sure that the “History” function is turned on on the page that opens. Note! If you want the browser to not save information about your actions in the future, disable this feature after cleansing data. It is important to understand that this will not provide anonymity - the search engine will still collect information about you and transfer it to the cloud service.
If you want to delete only your browser history, check the box next to “History” only. In most cases, it is worth completely getting rid of the information by checking the boxes next to each of the items offered by the browser.
Click on the “Clear data” button and confirm the action in the dialog box that opens.

You can verify that the history data has been successfully deleted by going to the “History” menu according to the instructions above. If everything was done correctly, the menu will not contain data about visited sites.

Now let's figure out how to remove global history your online activities.

Global clearing of search history using Yandex settings

As is the case with the Yandex browser, your Internet surfing history can be deleted partially (for a separate period of time) or completely (from the beginning of the account’s existence). The data will become inaccessible to you and other people who potentially have access to an Android device or personal computer where Yandex or another browser is installed and logged into the system. At the same time, the search engine will still have access to them, since it is on their basis that the search tips and other activities of Yandex.

To delete data, proceed as follows:

Make sure you are logged in to the account from which you want to delete the activity history. To do this, go to any page of Yandex services and check which user is shown there.
Go to the page that is the main page for working with history in Yandex at yandex.ru.
At the top right corner there is a “Settings” button.

Click on it and go to the “Portal Settings” sub-item.

The Yandex search engine is preferred by half of the users of smartphones running the Android OS - while Chrome is initially installed on such devices. The browser saves the user’s personal data (optional), including the history of visited sites. You can remove it in several ways, which will be discussed below.

Delete history on your phone

This can be done in two ways - either delete the history of visited sites only in the browser, or globally from your Yandex account. If the user is logged in to mobile phone, tablet or personal computer and synchronization with other devices is enabled - if you delete actions on one gadget, they will remain visible on the other.

If you use global data deletion from your Yandex account, the information will be lost from all devices. However, with this approach there is a risk of losing important data.

Clearing search history in your smartphone browser

First, let's consider the option in which only the search query history is deleted. By the way, this erases not only the addresses of sites to which transitions were made directly from this device, but also exported requests (if consent to export was given during installation). You need to perform the following operations:

After this, the addresses of visited sites will be deleted from the history.

Clearing search history in Yandex Browser on Android

There is a reason to delete not only your history, but also erase other traces of your presence on the Internet. To do this, perform the following steps:

It is worth noting that the operations for clearing history do not differ depending on which gadget you use - be it a tablet or a phone on Android or iOS.

Deleting information on all devices

This deletion method is suitable if the account is synchronized to different devices. This technique is useful when another person has access to one of the gadgets, and you need to hide your online activities. You can delete information using this method if the smartphone or tablet is corporate or can be used by third parties.

At the same time, the browser itself still has access to the information, since search suggestions and other Yandex functionality are based on it. We perform the following actions:

Clear history via app

For Android smartphones there are several utilities that allow you to remove unnecessary information- and this applies to the history of visiting Internet pages, as well as other information (cache, cookies, auto-filling forms, passwords, temporary files, temporary files, and so on).

For users popular application is CCleaner. The utility has big choice settings - the user chooses which sections of the smartphone will be cleared and which will be left unchanged. Also has a cleaning function free space. An analysis is carried out and a preliminary result is given regarding the amount of space that will be freed up after the procedure.

Summing up

Several ways to delete history on your phone. The table provides a summary of the type of deletion and the actions that will be performed.

Removing only Yandex search queries.	Other data will not be affected. Information is deleted only from the device from which the operation is performed.
Removing both requests and other traces.	You can clear history, erase cookies, cache, downloads and other information.
It is not the browser that is cleaned, but the account.	Information is deleted both from the device from which the operation is performed and from the account as a whole. Users from other devices (by logging into their account) will not be able to get their browsing history.
Using special utilities.	Thanks to its functionality, it is used to completely clean your smartphone of unnecessary information.