Delete Safari Documents and Data on iPad

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Delete Safari Documents and Data on iPad

It’s seems there is no answer to this question. Has anyone and I mean Apple found a way to do this

tgese forums are very good, but sometimes it would be good to hear from Apple.

. At the moment I have over 5gb of storage showing under iPad storage with no way of deleting it, that I’m aware of. Searched internet. The best answer is “wait, because I think Safari gets rid of it eventually” - really. As I can’t delete Safari and download again like other apps I’m pretty fed up as I’m reaching storage limits on my iPad, which I suppose is Apples idea of pushing me to get another iPad . Been with Apple a long time, but … didn’t notice this until ios15, so hopefully it’s a bug???

iPad Pro 9.7-inch WiFi

Posted on Sep 23, 2021 8:09 AM

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VikingOSX

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Sep 23, 2021 11:00 AM in response to Tony Rees

That Settings > General > Safari > Documents and Data cannot be removed. It constitutes the size of the application and its associated data. All you can clear in Safari is History and Website Data in Settings > Safari.

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VikingOSX

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Sep 23, 2021 8:31 AM in response to Tony Rees

These are fellow user supported communities and neither Apple, Apple Support, nor Apple product teams participate in these public, Google archived communities.

In iPadOS > Settings > Safari, if you scroll down on that Safari settings screen you will see the blue text: Clear History and Website Data. Tap that, to receive a secondary dialog where you tap clear. It is the same in iPadOS 14.8 and 15.0.

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Tony Rees Author

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Sep 23, 2021 2:21 PM in response to VikingOSX

I hear what you say, but how does it explain discrepancy between DOCUMENTS AND DATA ON iPhone - 49MB and DOCUMENTS AND DATA ON iPad 5.15GB

Everything is the same on my iPhone as on my iPad

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Tony Rees Author

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Sep 23, 2021 8:55 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for replying, but clearing History etc does not work. Everything is deleted but when I access safari where it says Documents and Data it shows 5gb. And as I said there is no way to clear this. Normally I would delete app but cannot do this with safari, so …

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Delete Safari Documents and Data on iPad

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