stay anonymo us in Safari
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Delete yourself
If you’re worried about someone checking which websites you’ve visited, delete your Safari browsing history by tapping Settings > Safari > Clear History and also Clear Cookies and Data. Next, tap Advanced > Website Data, and tap Remove All Website Data. To stop subsequent web surfing being snooped, use a private browsing session. Launch Safari and then tap the + sign in the top right. Tap Private in the bottom-left corner.
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Start a private session
A ‘Close All Tabs?’ query box now appears. Tap either Close All or Keep All depending on whether you want to return to those open web pages later. When you surf in Private mode in Safari, web pages are distinguished with a black URL bar. Otherwise, you can browse the web as normal. Tap Private again to revert to standard web browsing. You’ll get another prompt about keeping tabs for sites you’ve just visited.
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Lose trackers
Safari has a Do Not Track setting you can switch on permanently, as well as an option to limit the amount that your web browsing is logged. In Settings, tap Safari > Privacy & Security and turn on Do Not Track. Not all advertisers respect it, but enabling this option will stop some of them tracking you. We also recommend you turn on Limit Ad Tracking and reset the Advertising Identifier under Settings > Privacy > Advertising.
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Limit location trackers
Apps that don’t really require your location often collect and report it to help advertisers target ads. You can turn off Location Services in Settings > Privacy > Location Services but this is a bit drastic. Instead, switch off other apps individually in the Location Services screen. Tap System Services at the very bottom and switch off Diagnostics & Usage, Location-Based iAds and Popular Near Me. Finally, tap Status Bar Icon to On.
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Learn what tracks you
Although lots of services log what you do online, the purpose of this tracking varies greatly. To see what web trackers are active, install the free Ghostery app from the App Store. This lets you block or allow trackers and analytics tools on a case-by-case basis. Ghostery also includes the Duck Duck Go search engine mentioned earlier. Tap the blue Ghostery tool icon in the browser to select View All Trackers, Block All Trackers and so on.