Thursday, January 15, 2026

iOS 26 Clear Safari History

 We're getting there! A little further!

I was very mad when 26 came out and they had made clearing Safari history so much harder. At least double maybe triple the number of clicks required. I tend to do this many times a day just to stop tracking and privacy problems.  

So I googled, and I found:
https://www.ojisanseiuchi.com/2020/10/10/ios-shortcut-to-clear-safari/

This page helped me create a shortcut to at least open the settings page so I could scroll down and in two clicks clear Safari history.

A couple of months have passed, and I checked again, and found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1jvgi12/clear_safari_shortcut/

This page gets me a little further, and the shortcut now scrolls down to the right button, then I do my two clicks and a third to close settings.

Still waiting on Apple to provide a hook into actually triggering the clear. But we're making progress....