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This article will show you how to Recover Deleted Safari History on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Safari is the most popular browser because it comes pre-installed on iOS devices and Mac computers. It keeps track of what we’ve looked at, so it’s easy to pick up where we left off. Even though browsing history is very important and useful, we often delete it by mistake on our iPhone, iPad, or Mac when we use Safari.
iOS devices come with Safari, which makes it easy to use the Internet. Like other web browsers, Safari for iOS keeps track of the pages you’ve visited in the tabs and makes it easy to go back to them. You might want to check your iPhone or iPad’s deleted past to make sure your teen is visiting safe sites, to see what your partner is looking at, or to go back to sites you’ve already been to. If you want to know more information about this visit official Apple support site.
How to Recover Deleted Safari History on iPhone, iPad
From iPhone Settings
This is one of the simplest ways to get back your iPhone’s deleted Safari information. Follow this step-by-step guide to get the info back.
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone, scroll down and select Safari.
- Under Safari settings, choose “Advanced”.
- Select the “Website Data” option. You will find all your Safari history here.
From iCloud.com
Your Safari bookmarks and information are saved in iCloud. To do this, you must have set up iCloud to sync all of your Safari info. If this setting was turned on, you can use the steps below to get back your removed Safari history:
- Open iCloud web in your browser and sign in using your Apple ID.
- Under “Advanced”, select the “Restore Bookmarks” option.
- Choose which bookmarks you would like to retrieve and click the “Restore” button.
From iCloud Backup
You can also get back what you deleted from Safari by restoring your iPhone’s info from an iCloud backup. With this method, you’ll have to get rid of everything on your computer. This could cause you to lose some of the files on your iPhone if they haven’t been backed up on iCloud. You also need a secure way to connect to the internet. Follow these steps to get your deleted Safarihistory back from your iCloud backup:
- Start by resetting your iPhone. Go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.
- When the factory reset is done, you can now set up your iPhone like you normally do with a new iPhone. While setting up, choose the “Restorefrom iCloud Backup” option.
- Choose the backup that contains your deleted Safari history. Your iPhone will start restoring all the data backed up on your iCloud, which should include your deleted Safari history.
How to Recover Deleted Safari History on Mac
Use Disk Drill
Disc Drill is great for getting back a History.db that was removed by accident or lost when the computer was formatted. You should be able to fully recover the file as long as it hasn’t been written over.
- Download and install Disk Drill for Mac.
- Launch Disk Drill and select your main hard drive.
- Click Search for lost data.
- Type “history.db” into the search field in the top-right corner and hit Return.
- Select the deleted History.db file and click the Recover button.
- Choose a safe recovery destination and click OK.
Restore from iCloud backup
If you use iCloud to back up and share your Safari data across devices, you can use your iPhone or any other iOS or iPadOS device that still has the original browsing history data to get back your deleted Safari history.
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap on your name.
- Select iCloud.
- Locate Safari and toggle the switch next to it until you’re prompted to merge your data.
- Click Merge.
Restore from Time Machine backup
Time Machine can also be used to get back Safari information. You could choose the “nuclear option” and restore your whole Mac to a previous state from Recovery, but it would take much less time to just recover the History.db file, which, as we’ve already said, stores all the websites you’ve visited in the /Library/Safari directory.
- Close Safari
- Open Finder and select Go -> Go to Folder.
- Enter ~/Library/Safari and click the Go button.
- Scroll down until you find the History.db file and select it.
- Click the Time Machine icon located in the Menu Bar and choose Enter Time Machine.
- Scroll down until you find the History.db file and select it.
- Click the Time Machine icon located in the Menu Bar and choose Enter Time Machine.
FAQs
Click on the iPhone icon in iTunes, then choose Restore Backup. 2. Click the Restore button next to the backup file that has your deleted Safari information. You should have regularly backed up your iPhone to iTunes in order to restore the backup and get the deleted Safari information back.
At least for users, there is no way to get back the deleted data if there is no backup. So the answer is clear: if you have backed up Safari history before, you can recover lost Safari history; if not, the deleted Safari history is gone for good.