As some are saying this is driving me crazy. There are no answers online no one seems to understand the question. SETTINGS, IPAD STORAGE, SAFARI THERE IS NOTHING TO GET RID OF DOCUMENTS AND DATA. Yes, web data. Some people say wait, well I have for the last three months. I have 5gb of D&D on my iPad in Safari - not on my iPhone .
surely someone from Apple could help or as my storage goes I have to buy a bigger iPad??
iPad Pro, iPadOS 15
Do you have pages saved to your Safari Reading List? These pages are saved in their entirely - to allow offline reading when you don’t have a network connection - and may account for some (if not all) of the data that you wish to delete from your iPad.
To access your Reading List, in iPadOS15, open your Safari sidebar.
Having accessed your Reading List, pages can be individually deleted with a left-swipe to expose the corresponding Red Delete option - or collectively using the Edit button that appears at bottom right of the sidebar.
Do you have pages saved to your Safari Reading List? These pages are saved in their entirely - to allow offline reading when you don’t have a network connection - and may account for some (if not all) of the data that you wish to delete from your iPad.
To access your Reading List, in iPadOS15, open your Safari sidebar.
Having accessed your Reading List, pages can be individually deleted with a left-swipe to expose the corresponding Red Delete option - or collectively using the Edit button that appears at bottom right of the sidebar.
If you have followed all of the advice provided by the Apple Community Specialist - and have been unsuccessful in recovering the “lost” storage through deleting your Reading List - I suggest that you ensure that you have a current iCloud or iTunes backup of your iPad - then reset your iPad and restore your data/files from this backup.
The restoration process will recover any lost/fragmented storage.
Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support
Hello Tony,
If your devices are using iCloud to sync Safari, you may want to try toggling it off, and see if the data clears.
For an iPad or iPhone, tap on Settings > [your name] > iCloud and toggle Safari off. If all the devices are toggled off, this should clear the data.
Have a good day.
Why complicate matters when you can simply backup and restore your iPad. If it doesn’t resolve the problem, then is the time to consider alternatives.
Hello Tony,
From your post it appears you are wanting to remove the documents and data from Safari on your iPad.
If you tap on Settings > General > iPad Storage > Safari > Website Data, you should be able to tap Remove All Website Data.
More information about how to clear Sari data is available here: Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
You can see information on how to check the storage here: How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Have a good day.
Hi, I really appreciate getting a response, but I keep getting the same answers. Yes, I know how to get rid of website data, but it is Documents and Data - as shown in attached pic - that I’m trying to get rid of. It is not on my iPhone - all on the same iCloud account etc.
Do you think it might still bring back Safari as saved to iCloud?? Which would include the documents and data?
Just had thought - use the iPhone backup as there is no documents and data on that. So when I restore I can choose iPhone backup???
Yes, thanks, but no go. Didn’t make a difference. No one seems to know or what Safari “documents and data” refers to??
Yes, I turned of iCloud and deleted reading list. Made no difference.
Yes I think you’re right.
Okay. Will give it a go
delete SAFARI documents and data
