Deleting I Pad History

[wendilla]

I used to be able to clear history by clicking the open book sign at right top . It comes up bookmarks and history but no history showing and clear sign at bottom is not lit to be pressed to clear I cleared it by going in to settings . Any idea what I might have clicked on and how do I get it back.

[rockyracoon]

What browser sre you using? in Safari it can only be done through settings as far as I know.

[wendilla]

Thanks for reply . When I first had ipad about 4 months ago I always done it by the little book sign on top right but last few days it has not worked from there. Have to do it from settings.

[wendilla]

Sorry yes Safari

[rockyracoon]

I've only been using Safari for a few months so can't remember how I deleted the history, maybe when we all did the ios7 update the layout was changed. Have had a lookey round and can't see a way round going by the setting route.

[wendilla]

that might be possible I will get my daughter to check hers to compare . Thanks.

[Fitzer]

Have your address bar and tabs gone black, if so you've gone into 'private' mode and it doesn't store history, click the plus sign and bottom left is the private option

[wendilla]

Rocky can you click on that open book on right top and tell me what you get >

[wendilla]

thanks for that fitzer I have found that but which one do I click it says close all keep all and cancel

[Fitzer]

Yes it will, but do your address bar and top of the screen have a black background, if they're still white then private browsing isn't the problem.

[wendilla]

no they have not got a black background

[wendilla]

It does say private bottom left

[Fitzer]

Right so not that, so when you go to history from the open book icon there isn't any history showing although you know you've been to multiple websites today for instance?

[wendilla]

yes that is right

[wendilla]

it has been like this for the last 2 weeks it was ok before that

[Fitzer]

Just tried mine and it works as it always has, exactly as you described yours working before. I can't see any option to NOT store history, only thing I could think of would be to enable and then disable private browsing (you can take the option to keep tabs) and then navigate to some new websites and see if history builds up then.

[Traci66]

I've just clicked on the open book icon and deleted my history from there, I'm using safari.

[wendilla]

Thanks Fitzer I took the option to keep tabs then went to a few web sites woopee it is working . Thanks ever so much and thanks everyone for trying to help.

[rockyracoon]

Just popping back to answer you about the open book lol, glad you got it sorted.

[wendilla]

Yes always used it from the open book I must have clicked on something and upset it but all ok now