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Posted: 1/21/2021 10:31:39 AM EDT
How often do you clear your phone's browser history?
call history?
text messages?
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:33:23 AM EDT
[#1]
Not now Mr. FBI man.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:34:27 AM EDT
[#2]
Not today Biden appointed CIA director.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:36:09 AM EDT
[#3]
It's too late. Your wife already knows..

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:37:15 AM EDT
[#4]
So ... how does one go about doing this?
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:39:30 AM EDT
[#5]
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Not a smart ass response.

Best way to do it is google search your phone/browser and how to delete history.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:42:58 AM EDT
[#6]
Text and call history....never.

Browser....every couple of months or so.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:44:02 AM EDT
[#7]
Never have.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:46:49 AM EDT
[#8]
I do regular maintanance on my phone like backing up photos and address book.  That is part of it.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:50:30 AM EDT
[#9]
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:53:40 AM EDT
[#10]
Why are you using a browser that stores your history?  (Check out Bromite on the F droid store, or Firefox Focus on the Google/Apple store)

Even so, clearing your browser history will only take it off of the phone.  After the data leave your phone and goes out to the internet, well.......

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:54:10 AM EDT
[#11]
Never. Can’t risk damaging my porn collection
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 10:56:22 AM EDT
[#12]
Pretty much never.  Why?
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:00:09 AM EDT
[#13]
My phone browser keeps a history?!

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:10:20 AM EDT
[#14]
I just had to clear my text history. My iPhone didn't have enough free storage to update. I looked and Text was using just under photos for storage space.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:11:47 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:12:05 AM EDT
[#16]
Text history? Never. I don't say stuff (i.e., illegal) in a text that I know would get me in trouble.
Call history? Never. I don't call anyone I don't personally know. And any calls from someone I don't personally know are automatically silenced and they have to leave a message.
Browser history? Never. I don't visit sites that I don't care if anyone knows.

The joys of being single and not doing or saying stupid/illegal shit on my phone.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:12:34 AM EDT
[#17]
Delete messages every once and awhile, they hold a lot of data with pics
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:12:58 AM EDT
[#18]
Wipe it with a cloth
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:19:43 AM EDT
[#19]
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Not a smart ass response.

Best way to do it is google search your phone/browser and how to delete history.
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So ... how does one go about doing this?

Not a smart ass response.

Best way to do it is google search your phone/browser and how to delete history.


Will do. Thanks.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:27:01 AM EDT
[#20]
Why? My phone is encrypted, with facial id needed to unlock. Short of possibly law enforcement, nobody is getting access to my search history.

I also have no need to hide the fact that I use my phone to access porn or whatever.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:28:02 AM EDT
[#21]
Use a browser that doesn't store your history.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:28:52 AM EDT
[#22]
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Never have.
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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:29:05 AM EDT
[#23]
If I wipe all my texting data, I’d also lose most of my noodz.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:33:22 AM EDT
[#24]
Not sure how to do that.



Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:40:25 AM EDT
[#25]
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:25:20 PM EDT
[#26]
when I get a new phone I factory reset the old phone and sell it.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:30:54 PM EDT
[#27]
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Was waiting for someone to post this tired old phrase. Didn't have to wait long.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:31:46 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:34:06 PM EDT
[#29]
Wait.  You can clear that stuff?
But why would you want to?
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:34:31 PM EDT
[#30]
I don't use my phone browser for much.  Song titles and etc.  I like a larger screen to actual reading of content.  I never delete texts, not even spam.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:36:36 PM EDT
[#31]
Every day.  More sometimes assuming I even have it on.

The FBI can go pound sand.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:39:15 PM EDT
[#32]
Unless you're texting from iphone to iphone, or using a secure messaging app with a person who also uses it, SMS texts are stored by your phone carrier. I know that Sprint stores them for 7 years and they are available to the popo
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:42:23 PM EDT
[#33]
I clear my browser history whenever I don't want me wife possibly finding out what I'm looking at :)
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:47:52 PM EDT
[#34]
I don't use my phone to surf the net .
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:49:50 PM EDT
[#35]
Turn on the incognito mode...
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:50:05 PM EDT
[#36]
Daily, no use and carrying around a easy confession
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:51:27 PM EDT
[#37]
Firefox Focus does this for me automagically
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 12:53:27 PM EDT
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how clever

of you
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 1:03:20 PM EDT
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Why? My phone is encrypted, with facial id needed to unlock. Short of possibly law enforcement, nobody is getting access to my search history.

I also have no need to hide the fact that I use my phone to access porn or whatever.
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You also need to check Google account settings.  Google will also store Browser history and location history.  

If anybody cares about Law Enforcement.  You can be compelled by warrants to unlock facial I’d or fingerprints since that is physical evidence.  You cannot be “legally” compelled to provide a pin under 5A.
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