Clear Cache, Cookies and History in Edge

Updated at: May 20, 2024

This guide shows you how to clear your cache, cookies, and browsing history in the Microsoft Edge browser.

1. Click the "Settings and more" button

   In the top right hand corner of your Edge browser's window, you will see a small button with 3 dots in it. This is the "Settings and more" button

   

   Click it. It will reveal a menu with more options. One of them will be named "Settings".

2. Select the "Settings" menu item

   Near the bottom of the large menu which just appeared, there will be an item will be called Settings. Click on it.

   

   The Settings menu will now appear.

3. Click on the "Privacy, Search, and Services"

   Click on Privacy, Search, and Services in the menu column on the left hand side of the screen.

   

4. Click on the "Choose What to Clear" button

   In the main screen, under the Clear browsing data heading, you will see a blue button labled Choose What to Clear - click on it.

   

5. Select what you want to clear from Edge

   You will be presented with a list of checkboxes for various things which can be deleted from Edge.

   

   Choose what you would like to delete from Edge by keeping the checkbox ticked. Untick anything which you don't want to delete. You can scroll down to see a few extra possibilities.

   These are the choices and what they mean:

   Option name	Description
   Browsing history	The list of websites you have visited in Edge
   Download history	The list of files you have downloaded. It will not actually delete those files
   Cookies and other site data	Cookies and other data storage will be deleted, this will log you out of most websites
   Cached images and files	A collection of temporary files that speed up your web browsing
   Passwords	Any saved usernames and passwords for websites will be deleted
   Autofill form data (includes forms and cards)	The values which Edge has saved and automatically puts into forms
   Site permissions	If you have granted any special permissions to websites (eg. To use your webcam or location)

   It's most common to just want to delete Browsing history, Download history, Cached images and files. You may want to keep (by ensuring they are unticked) things like Autofill data, Passwords and Site permission...

6. Click the "Clear now" button

   Once you have made your choices about what you want to delete from Edge, click the Clear Now button.

   

   This will make Edge clear the selected types of data from your computer.

   Once it's finished, the dialog window will close. Now you can then simply close the Settings menu and continue browsing.