How to Clear Cookies on Android?

How to Clear Cookies on Android? – Getting Started

Want to know how to clear cookies on Android devices, including Galaxy, Pixel, or other Android phones?

Cleaning out your Android phone’s web browser frees up space and eliminates data you may no longer need.

Cleaning the cache and cookies from your phone’s web browser regularly is an intelligent practice.

Most certainly, your web browser has gathered data from all over the internet and saved it on your Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, or other Android phones.

This data, which is saved in the cache and cookies of your browser, allows you to access pages and log in easily.

However, whether you use browsers like Firefox, Samsung Internet, or Google Chrome, these browsers accumulate data over time, taking up space on your phone.

It likely contains cookies that track your browsing history to serve personalized advertising.

It’s not a bad idea to clear this data occasionally to keep your web browser sleek and fast.

How to Clear Cookies on Android? | Steps

The steps of clearing cookies and cache on a web browser and an Android phone browser may differ slightly.

So, Let’s check out how to clear cookies on Android, Google Chrome, Samsung’s Internet browser (the default browser on Samsung Galaxy), and Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – Steps

Clearing Cache from Google Chrome

From the Android version of Google Chrome, tap the More button (a column of three dots) in the browser’s top right corner.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – Google Chrome

After that, tap on “History.”

How to Clear Cookies on Android – History

Then, tap on “Clear browsing data.”

How to Clear Cookies on Android – clear browsing data

Another option is to clear browsing data from the Chrome settings menu by selecting Privacy and Security, then Clear Browsing Data.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – Settings and clear browsing data

Advanced Options

Chrome also has Basic and Advanced options for deleting browsing history, cookies, and cached data.

There’s also a time range drop-down to erase the entire history or just a portion, ranging from the last 24 hours to the last 4 weeks.

You can also delete saved passwords, autofill form data, and site settings by tapping Advanced.

After selecting what you want to remove, hit the blue Clear data button, and it will erase without prompting you, so make sure you’re zapping precisely what you want to zap.

Clearing Cache in Samsung

You may erase the cache and cookie data to your Samsung Internet browser in two ways. You can clear your browser’s cache or use the Settings app on your phone.

To clear browsing data while using the Samsung Internet browser app, you have to:

Tap the Options button (three horizontal lines) in the bottom right corner.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – Samsung option button

Then go to settings, scroll down and select Personal Data.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – Personal data

Then, tap delete browsing data to choose options to delete. You can delete any combination of browsing history, cookies and site data, cached pictures and files, passwords, and autofill forms.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – delete browsing data

After pressing Delete data, you’ll see a prompt asking you to confirm your choices before deleting.

How to Clear Cookies on Android – delete data

From Settings

The most control of what you wish to erase comes from using the browser app itself.

If you wish to access similar choices from your phone’s settings menu, then you have to:

Open the Settings app and select “apps.”
Then, scroll down to Samsung Internet and the storage.
Clear cache and data options will be visible at the bottom of the storage. Clear cache deletes the cache quickly, but Clear data will notify you that all of the application’s data will be permanently destroyed, including files, settings, accounts, and databases.
You can then tap on your desired option.

Even though it doesn’t mention cookies, this “going nuclear” technique should wipe out all residual data that allows the Samsung Internet browser to restart as if it were brand-new.

Clearing Cookies on Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser. You may erase the cookies and cache from within the Mozilla Firefox Android app, just like you can with Google Chrome. To use this feature, you have to:

Tap the More button, represented by three vertically aligned dots on the right side of the address bar.
Then go to Settings
After that, select Delete browsing data from the drop-down menu.

Firefox gives you the most options under the delete browsing data menu of the three browsers we’re discussing.

It allows you to delete any existing Open tabs, browsing history, site permissions, site data, and even your Downloads folder, in addition to Cookies and Cached images and files.