Clearing Safari website data does not delete everything - iPhone

Benchmarks only test the hardware capability, not the perfomance of application ie Safari, etc.

I am an automation engineer and programmer with over 35 years experience. I am speaking to my experience and reflecting thousands and thousands of others similar experience. When safari becomes unusable after and ios update, something is dreadfullt wrong. Not sure why your offended by the truth.

Again, Futuremark is a test of hardware, not individual applications.

jphonak777 wrote:

Benchmarks only test the hardware capability, not the perfomance of application ie Safari, etc.

I am an automation engineer and programmer with over 35 years experience. I am speaking to my experience and reflecting thousands and thousands of others similar experience. When safari becomes unusable after and ios update, something is dreadfullt wrong. Not sure why your offended by the truth.

Again, Futuremark is a test of hardware, not individual applications.

I'm not offended. I don't really care if you want to believe something silly. I'll keep trying to help people who actually want it.

Best of luck.

**** Again, factually a benchmark is merely testing the hardware. I stated that App,e Hardware is not the problem, the problem is the ios softwsre updates. I have many years of developing software and firmware for realtime os systems. Critical operations for defense industry, factory automation, etc.

I know for a fact that software and firmware can affect performance, i have seen it in my own code and in that of other. Apple, for example, has terrible javascript implementation which causes instability in Safari.

Posting a link to futuremark means nothing to the users you are "trying to help".

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jjdnow, lets see if this post gets through thefanboycensors. A benchmarktest has nothing to do with a specifice applications performance, it merely tests the hardware. IOS updates may not affect hardware, but certainly slow down app performance, as we and many others have experienced. Safari has a lot of bugs.

ParhamS wrote:

There are benchmarks, and there are real life experiences. When on relatively fresh install of iOS the settings app takes 10 seconds to load, and letters show up with 1 second delay after typing on keyboard, no amount of impressive graphs and Apple friendly blog posts can cover that reality.

I am not denying that people have problems with their phone. What I will continue to contest is the ridiculous notion that Apple is intentionally slowing down phones as some sort of plot to get people to buy new phones. In addition to being ridiculous, it also discourages people from looking for real solutions.

I am and have been having this same issue for some time now. I have the iphone 7 and I JUST updated to iOS 11.2.2 an hour ago and I still have the problem. I have 6 websites that won’t delete some of which I have never even visited. They are all 0kb but the issue isn’t just the fact that I can’t delete them, it’s the fact that since I haven’t been able to delete them, whenever I get in safari, I get the “congratulations iPhone user! You have just won a gift card!!!....” pages almost every time I am on there. Personally, I think it’s related to this website data bug. Was wondering if anyone has had any luck yet getting this fixed. I was hoping this new update would fix the issue but clearly it hasn’t. It’s shameful that Apple has so many issues anymore. Steve Jobs is probably looking down with disgust and I don’t blame him.

These are the problem websites. No matter what I do, they persist. And since they have been there, I have had those pop ups. I also started getting phishing emails from “Apple” and I have never had these issues before...not until I was unable to delete these websites.

Yeah it definitely makes me wonder! I’m no software or computer genius but I know that it’s not right when things stick around after deletion. The only other time this ever happened to me was on a PC and it turned out to be a virus in the form of registration codes that implanted itself onto the factory restoration somehow. Basically, I couldn’t get rid of it no matter how hard I tried. Even the Geek Squad we’re powerless to this virus or whatever it was. So I hate it when I delete things and they don’t go away. 🙄

Interestingly, I have found a case where 'Individually swiping left on the persisting data and selecting "delete"' doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas how to clear this persistent unwanted browser remnant?

I recommend you fill out this form as someone else was mentioning on the forum thread named (Gus) this might help Apple to find a solution quickly. The more reports they have of this software bug the faster they can patch it. I tried restoring my iPhone to factory settings still didn't work so now I gonna try resetting all settings and see if that works.

Good luck

Apple Recommendation Form: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Why do you want to clear the history in the first place? Just won

Raparris31 wrote:

Thanks for the info, I'm not familiar with the rules in beta.

Does anyone think Apple with solve this website data problem, because the list keeps getting bigger and bigger.

No one here knows Apple's future plans and speculation is prohibited by the Terms of Use to which we all agreed when we signed up. What you should do is let Apple know this is a problem for you. They don't read here.

Submit feedback here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Contact Support using the link at the top right of every page of these forums.

The more people who let Apple know that they consider this a problem, the more attention Apple is going to pay.

Best of luck.