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Keep your surfing secret in iOS

SKILL LEVEL

Taking things further

IT WILL TAKE

20 minutes

YOU’ll NEED iOS device, Safari, Onion Browser

Many of us are becoming more and more concerned about having our online activities tracked. Some of us want to avoid marketers and spam, while others want to dodge overzealous content blocking from their internet service provider. Generally, though, most of us just want to use the internet as we please without our browsing being snooped on and logged by the authorities.

The iPad’s web browser, Safari, usually tracks your web movements with cookies that enable you to quickly return to the pages and products you’ve looked at previously.

It also saves your web history, which can be useful if you want to quickly return to a page you’ve visited before. You can use a Private version of Safari that doesn’t track you in this way, as we show you below.

However, for proper privacy it’s better to use a proxy server that masks your real details. So here’s how to temporarily surf in secret in Safari, and how to use the Tor network and the Onion web browser to surf stealthily all the time. Rosie Hattersley