Safari is a default web browser on iOS devices. It is developed by Apple. While you use it to browse webpage, it stores all your browsing history, cache, cookies so that to improve your browsing experience on Internet.
These safari history data give you a faster load time, but at the same time these private data are sensitive. These data leave your Safari could be potential risk of your private information. Therefore, many people will choose to clear the safari history.
How to clear safari browsing history on iPhone?
Go to Home screen and find Safari at the bottom. Tap on Safari’s settings and find Clear History and Website Data Option. Tap on this option to delete the cache, cookies and browsing data from your iPhone.
If you accidentally deleted your Safari history and lost some of your website lists, how can you do to recover them? To find these sites are not easy, you should recover them as soon as possible. The safari history will not be erased from your iPhone before they are overwritten by new data.
Here are several ways for you to retrieve your lost safari history.
The first method, recover safari history from iCloud backup
Go to iCloud.com and sign in with your Apple ID and password.
Click Settings and then click Restore bookmarks under Advanced option.
In the opened window, you will see the bookmarks list here. Click Restore.
Click “Restore” button to confirm your operation when it pops up a window says that “The archive of bookmarks you selected replace bookmarks on all your devices. Your current bookmarks will be archived”.
The second method, recover safari history with your iTunes backup.
If you have backed up your iPhone data including these lost safari history before lost, you can restore them from your iTunes backup.
Open iTunes on your computer and connect your iPhone. Click “File>Devices> Restore from backup. Or click the iPhone icon and then choose Restore Backup. These will restore all your data in backup to your iPhone.
If you do not want the backup to replace all the data on your iPhone, you can use an iPhone data recovery software to extract safari history.
Run H Data iPhone recovery software on computer and choose “View and Restore files from iTunes backups” to start recovery.
Select the correct backup you need to scan, and click “SCAN” button.
After scan, you will see “Safari” on the left side with the numbers.
Click Safari to preview the history.
Tick the files you need to restore and click to export them to your computer.
Third, restore safari history from iPhone
If you have no backup, you can can choose to use the iPhone data recovery software to directly scan and restore your files, or you can back up the iPhone to iTunes and then scan the iTunes backup. As long as you take actions immediately found you have data loss, full data recoveryis not impossible for you. The recovery from iPhone is similar to restore from iTunes backup. But if you have iTunes backup, it will save you a lot of time to scan your iPhone.