How to Reset Safari to Default Settings on Mac and iPhone

You’re smacking your head to reset your Safari back to its default setting? Are you unsure where to start? Don’t worry, we’re here to help!

Safari is a fantastic browser, and there are any doubts about it. With Apple leading the fight against ad trackers across the web with its anti-tracking policy Safari is a secure refuge for those who wish to safeguard their privacy.

However, Safari may be the winner in terms of safeguarding its users, it most of the time it is not able to compete with its rivals in the field of expanding features.

But, a lot of us use safari on a regular basis. Many want to keep the last bit of privacy online, while some do not wish to install a third-party web browser onto the devices of their Macs and iPhones.

Whatever your reason to use Safari. One thing is certain that over time, and with a lot of use, Safari accumulates tons and tons of data from websites that could slow down your browser, or worse even your devices.

Reset Safari to Default Settings on Mac

In the wake of everyone’s surprise it’s not a ‘Reset Safari button’ in any one of the Apple devices. Therefore, we’re bound to follow an array of steps that which not everyone is at ease with. In the end Resetting Safari involves resetting three components:

• History
• Website Data
• Cache

We are going to reset the components on a first-come-first-serve basis. Let’s begin.

Reset History

Then, Launch Safari from the Launchpad or the dock on your Mac.

Then, click on the tab ‘History’ from the bar menu. Then, select the ‘Clear History’ …’ option in the menu.

Then, select the “all history” from the drop-down menu. After that, click on the “Clear History.

Reset Website Data

Then, Launch Safari from the Launchpad or from the dock on your Mac.

Then, click on the tab ‘Safari’ in the bar menu. Then, select the ‘Preferences’ tab from the menu.

Then, visit the Privacy tab and then click the ‘Manage Website Data’ button.

Then, click the “Remove All buttons’ located in the left-hand edge of the panel.

Then, click the “Remove Now” to confirm.

Reset Cache

Then, Launch Safari from the Launchpad or from the dock on your Mac.

Then, click on the tab ‘Safari’ from the bar menu. Next, select the ‘Preferences’ tab from the menu.

Then, you can go to the Advanced pane. Then, click for the “Show menu of Develop on the bar menu’ option.

In the end, the tab ‘Develop’ will now appear on the main menu. Click it, and select the empty Caches’ option from the menu.

Reset Safari to Default Settings on iPhone

Resetting Safari is fairly simple on iPhone and takes only a few steps.

Start the app ‘Settings’ from the iPhone on the screen that is home.

Then, scroll down to select ‘Safari’ from the list, then tap it.

Then, scroll until you see the “Clear History as well as Website Data’ option on the screen. Tap on itonce you have found it.

Then, select ‘Clear History and Data in the alert menu that pops up to confirm.