How to Recover Deleted Google Chrome History

In this post, we’ll show you how to Recover Deleted Google Chrome History. If you really want to delete your history, you can skip to the end of the article for a direct way to delete Google Chrome history. Google Chrome is a web browser that is used all over the world. It was made by Google Inc.

It’s simple in design and fast in speed. Google Chrome, like all other web browsers, keeps a history of the websites a user has visited recently. This history shows things like the title of the page and the time it was visited. The history files help users remember where they’ve been on the Internet and help them get back to pages they accidentally closed.

Through the browsing history, users of Google Chrome can find and go to the sites they have looked at before. It makes it easy to get back to important websites, even if you haven’t saved or bookmarked them.

Ways to Recover Deleted Google Chrome History

Use a Browser to Check Your Google Activity for Deleted History

If you use Google Chrome, you’re probably always signed in to your Google account. If you use a different browser, like Firefox or Safari, you might have to sign in. If you go to your Google account and look at your browsing history, you can see the sites you’ve been to in the past.

If you use Google Chrome, you’re probably always signed in to your Google account. If you use a different browser, like Firefox or Safari, you might have to sign in. If you go to your Google account and look at your browsing history, you can see the sites you’ve been to in the past.

• Open any browser and go to your Google account.
• Click on Data & Privacy in the vertical sidebar.
• In the Things you’ve done and places you’ve been tab, click Web & App Activity.
• Now, click on Manage all Web & App Activity.

Use Windows’ Restore Previous Versions’ Option to Recover History

If you can’t find your browsing history by looking at what you’ve done with your Google account, you can get it back by using Windows Explorer.

• Open Windows Explorer and go to Local Disk (C:), the usual default location for app installations.
• Now, open the Users folder.
• Next, go to [Username] (the name of your user profile).
• Click on the View tab, then ensure the Hidden Items checkbox is checked.
• Open the AppData folder.
• Now, navigate to Local.
• Next, right-click on the Google folder.
• In the pop-up menu, select Properties.
• Click on the Previous versions tab in the dialog box.
• Select the previous version you want to restore and click Apply.
• Finally, click OK.

Use PC Data Recovery Software to Obtain Deleted History

If you don’t have a backup of your browsing history, you can use a data recovery programme to get it back. You have to download and set up a third-party app to use this method.

• Go to the Recuva download page and click the Download button to get the free version.
• Open the folder where you’ve downloaded Recuva and launch the installation.
• Select Run Recuva. Follow the on-screen instructions using the Recovery Wizard.
• Select All files and then click Next.
• Select the specific location using this path: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Google.
• Click Next.
• Click on Start and wait for Recuva to recover deleted files from the specified location.
• Browse the files to find the data you need to recover. The history JSON file should be listed. If not, try a Deep Scan. in the above steps.
• Check the boxes next to each file you want to restore (history for this process), then click on Recover.
• Choose the location to save the recovered file(s), then click OK. Selecting a different drive (or partition at the least) is best. Never choose the exact location the file previously existed.
• A completion report screen appears. Click OK to close the window.
• Open Windows Explorer, navigate to your predefined recovery folder, then copy the history file.
• Paste the history file into the C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default folder.

FAQ

How can I recover deleted history?

Doing a system restore is the easiest way. If you just deleted your internet history, you can use system restore to get it back. You can turn on and use system restore by going to the “Start” menu and searching for “system restore.” This will take you to the feature.

Is Chrome history deleted forever?

If you don’t want Chrome to keep track of the pages you’ve visited, you can delete all or part of your browsing history. If you delete your browsing history, it happens on all of the devices where you have Chrome signed in and sync turned on. You can also turn off the Journeys history view if you want to.

Can deleted Google history be found?

To get back your deleted Google history, open the Recycle Bin and see if the files you deleted are temporarily stored there. If YES, choose them and then choose Restore from the menu that pops up. If NOT, you may have gotten rid of the history for good.

Where is Google Chrome history stored?

Chrome stores information about the websites you visit in the “History” SQLite database, in the “visits” table. The “urls” table is where information about links is kept. In older versions of Chrome, Website Visits were stored in a separate SQLite database called “Archived History,” in the “visits” table.