Cover your tracks

On desktop:

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click on the Chrome menu icon in the top right-hand corner (it looks like three dots).
3. Click on 'More tools'.
4. Click on 'Clear browsing data'.
5. A pop-up window will appear. Choose a time range to clear from the drop-down list. For example, 'the past hour'.
6. Tick each box: Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, Cached images and files.
7. Click 'Clear browsing data'.

On mobile:

These steps might be different depending on your phone model:

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click on the three dots in the right-hand corner.
3. Click on 'History'.
4. Tick each box: Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, Cached images and files.
5. Click on 'Clear data'.

To delete history on a desktop or laptop:

1. Go to the Safari menu at top right of the screen (looks like a wheel).
2. Click on 'Preferences...'
3. A pop up will appear. Select the 'Privacy' tab.
4. Select the 'Remove All Website Data...' button.

For iPhones:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Go to Safari.
3. Scroll down until you see 'Clear History and Website Data'.
4. Tap 'Clear History and Website Data' to delete history.

On desktop:

1. At the top of the window click on the menu button which looks like three lines.
2. Click on 'History' icon. It looks like a clock.
3. Click on 'Clear Recent History.'
4. A pop up window will appear. Choose a time range to clear from the drop-down list. For example, you can just choose to clear the 'Last Four Hours'.
5. Click on 'Clear Now'.

On mobile:

These instructions might be different depending on your phone model:

1. Open Firefox
2. Press the 3 dots in the right-hand corner
3. Tap ‘Settings’
4. Tap ‘Clear private data’
5. Select the data you want to clear and tap ‘Clear data’

On desktop:

1. Go to the 'Start page'
2. Click on the ‘History’ icon, it looks like a clock
3. Click on the 'Clear browsing data...' button at the top right
4. Select how long you want to clear history from, for example 'the past hour'
5. Tick all boxes and press 'Clear browsing data'

On mobile:

These instructions might be different depending on your phone model:

1. Tap the Opera symbol
2. Select ‘Settings’
3. Scroll down and tap ‘Clear browsing data…
4. Select what data you want to clear and tap ‘Clear data’

To pick certain websites and delete them from your history:

1. Click on the ‘hub’ icon in the top right-hand corner. It looks like 3 lines.
2. Click on the history icon. This looks like a clock.
3. Hover over the pages you want to delete and click the ‘x’ on the right-hand side.

To delete all your history and saved passwords:

1. Click on the ‘more’ icon in the top right-hand corner. It looks like 3 lines.
2. Click settings.
3. Under “Clear browsing data” click “Choose what to clear.”
4. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Cached data and files, Passwords, Form data and Download History.
5. Click clear.

The steps below are for a desktop browser and some touch devices. Mobile phones and some devices may be different.

Internet Explorer 11:

1. Click the Tools button in the top right of the screen (it looks like a wheel).
2. Choose Safety, then click Delete browsing history.
3. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Download History, Form data, Passwords, and Filtering data.
4. Click on Delete.

To pick certain websites and delete them from your history:

1. Tap or click the Favourites button (it looks like a star). This will bring up a drop-down menu.
2. Choose the History tab and click. Now you can choose how you want to view your history. You can view sites by date, by most visited and by site
3. Right-click (or press and hold) on a site from any of these lists, then click (or tap) ‘Delete’. This will delete the site from your history.

Internet Explorer 10

1. Move your mouse to the right-hand side of the page to bring up a side panel. Click on the 'Settings' icon (it looks like a wheel shape) and click on 'Internet Options'.
2. Go to the 'Safety' menu and select 'Delete'.

Internet Explorer 9

1. Click on the 'gear' icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen. It looks like a little wheel. Then click on Internet Options.
2. This will make a box pop up, that will already be open on a section called General.
3. In this section, scroll to Browser History and then click the Delete button.
4. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Download History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering data.
5. Un-tick the 'Preserve Favourites website data'.
6. Click Delete to clear everything.

Internet Explorer 7 and 8

1. Go to the menu bar at the top of the page. Click on the Tools menu and select Internet Options. This will make a box pop up , that will already be open on a section called General.
2. In this section, scroll to Browser History and click the Delete button.
3. You can select and delete each section: Temporary internet files; Cookies, History; Form data and Passwords.
4. You can also just select the 'Delete all' button at the bottom to clear everything.

Internet Explorer 6
If you use Internet Explorer 6, go to the menu bar at the top of the page.

1. Click on Tools.
2. Go to the bottom of the dropdown menu and click on Internet Options. This will open a box with the names of several different sections along the top. You will already be in the section called General.
3. In the middle of this box is a section called 'Temporary Internet Files'. Click on the button marked 'Delete files'.
4. When the box pops up, tick the 'Delete all offline content' box and then click OK.
5. When your computer finishes deleting your temporary internet files, you will be back in the General Internet Options box.
6. Look at the section below called History. Here you can click on the 'Clear History' button.
7. A pop-up box will ask you if you want to delete all items in your history folder. Click 'Yes'.
8. Click 'OK' to close the Internet Options box.