It’s a shame, but it has to be said. Browsing the Internet is an increasingly hostile experience, where privacy is left behind. And with cell phones, this has become even riskier, because they are devices that constantly record private data.
Protecting yourself from this tendency with tools like a VPN or limiting applications is therefore very important. And one of the practices to achieve this is to delete cookies from time to time, thus preventing their accumulation on the iPhone. If you do not remove them, you may be exposed to several risks..
The consequences of not deleting cookies from iPhone
Cookies, in and of themselves, are not necessarily bad. They are responsible for storing the data that web pages need, such as logins (provided we choose to do so) and data that makes our browsing more comfortable. But at the same time, they also serve to record data used to track our network activity
You don’t need to delete cookies daily, there’s no reason to obsess. But we must not forget this task either.because keeping too many cookies exposes us to possible consequences.
- If someone manages to access your iPhone and browser data, they can find tracking cookies from certain web pages. The more you have, the more data they can discover about you if they intercept one of your devices (remember that Safari cookies are synced via iCloud).
- Not delet ing cookies also results in storing many old service sessions that you no longer use on your iPhone. This is data that you will never use again, so deleting it will always be a good thing.
- Although each cookie takes up a ridiculous amount of storage, accumulating them can force Safari to look at a lot of data while you browse. Over the years, you could incur a possible decrease in performance. A quick check of my cookies let me know that mine takes up almost 900MB on my device if we add the cookie cache.
- You may have already experienced that a website you visit every day behaves strangely or throws up errors when you try to log in to it. This is probably the result of some old cookies that you have stored and have not deleted.
Therefore, checking cookies from time to time is a good practice that you can do, for example, during long car trips where you have nothing else to do and so you can enjoy the time.
How to delete cookies from iPhone
If you want to quickly delete iPhone cookies from your iPhone, iOS 17 lets you do it in just a few steps:
- On your iPhone, open the Settings app.
- Click on the “Safari” section.
- Click on the buttonClear History and Website Data‘.
- Select “All History” and “All Profiles” from the options and click “Clear History”:
juNote that this will delete all data from websites you visited using Safari from iPhone, so you will lose the login details of all the websites you have visited. If you want to be more selective in deleting these cookies, you can do so (again) from the “Safari” section in Settings. In the “Advanced” section you have a subsection called “Website Data” where you can delete cookies individually from a list:
The task of deleting the cookies you choose becomes longer (you have to check everything), but this way you can keep the ones you prefer and not lose the identifiers that you might consider important. Don’t forget: the passwords you use are also saved in iCloud Keychain. You can collect them from there.
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