Clearing the cache and cookies from your mobile phone will speed up your browsing. Cookies are often used to track the websites you are visiting. If you have ever seen an ad for a company whose website you recently visited, it is because of the cookie that was stored in your browser. Plus, the larger your browser’s cache, the more bloated your browser app becomes with data from websites you might not even be visiting anymore — and yet some of their assets and possibly a few tracking cookies could be sitting in there.
Clear the cache in Safari:
1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Select Safari from the list of apps.
3. Scroll down and select Clear History and Website Data.
4. Confirm your selection in the popup box.
Clear the cache in Chrome:
1. Open the Chrome app.
2. Select the three dots in the bottom right to open more options.
3. Scroll down and select Settings.
4. Select Privacy in the next menu.
5. Then select Clear Browsing Data to open up one last menu.
6. Select the intended time range at the top of the menu (anywhere from Last Hour to All Time).
7. Make sure that Cookies, Site Data is selected, along with Cached Images and Files. Finally, hit Clear Browsing Data at the bottom of the screen.
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Clear the browser on your Android Phone
Here are the steps to clean the cookies and cache from your Google Chrome browser on your Android phone:
Tap the More button in the top-right corner of the browser, symbolized as three vertical dots, then tap History, then Clear browsing data. You can also access this from the Chrome Settings menu, tapping Privacy and Security and then Clear browsing data.
Mozilla Firefox:
Firefox gives you options under the Delete browsing data menu, allowing you to also delete any existing Open tabs, your Browsing historyand site data, Site permissions and even your Downloads folder alongside Cookies and Cached images and files. Firefox has an additional option for those who never want to keep their browsing data after they are done using the app. Inside of Settings is a Delete browsing data on quit option, which instructs Firefox to wipe any combination of these same settings every time you quit the application.
