jame.rober JA
@jame.rober
iPhone & iPad Oct 06, 2026

iphone safari history seems to delete itself

i look for a page from yesterday in safari history and it's gone. i haven't cleared anything. is there a setting that wipes history automatically, or is it a screen time thing?
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irai Oct 29, 2026
jame.rober
make sure it's history and not tabs going. Safari has a Close Tabs setting (after a day, a week, a month) and a lot of people read their tabs disappearing as history being wiped. the tabs setting is in Settings under Safari. history should still be there under the book icon > clock.
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samf Oct 09, 2026
jame.rober
do you have a mac on the same apple id? safari history syncs through icloud, so if the mac is set to remove history items after a day or a week, it wipes the phone's history too. that's what it was for me. other things that do it: browsing in a private tab (nothing gets saved), or someone clearing history on another device signed into the same account.
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