Safari iOS 10.3.1 not clearing Safari cache

It’s fixed. You need to do a total clean install and do not carry anything over from previous installations I’ve tested it and it works.

Today I spoken to Apple Support and they understand this issue. Maybe my case is a little bit special as I don't want to lose any health & activity data, therefore a fresh setup of my iPhone is not possible.

Now the senior specialist informed that they will investigate if the Safari data can be excluded in a back-up, due to that it will be easier than trying to portion out the health & activity data which of course is encrypted. They needed a couple of days to investigate and hopefully it can become a feasible solution for all of us with this issue.

Keep you updated...

OK, today I updated to iOS 11 on my iPhone 6.

The good news: is that the 68 kb are now 0 kb for all the rows. Before I had one with 68 kb and two with zero kb.

The bad news: is that three sites can't be removed.

I'm mean this will haunt me even when I purchase the iPhone X as I'll start from a back-up...

New update 2017-10-02

1. Apple support have talked to the engineers and they thought that this issue should have been solved with iOS 11.

2. Extracting the health data from a backup is not possible due to the high encryption of the data. A solution is to do a backup and exclude the Safari data.

3. Apple support installed a tracking profile on my iPhone, we did the test and collected all diagnostic data which I uploaded to Apple. The engineers will analyze the data, and hopefully be able to solve this.

Hopefully I'll get some more information from Apple Support by the end of this week.

Keep you updated...

OK, I have some good news!

But it's more of a work-around...

This is nothing that the Apple engineers informed me which that have should, but after iOS 11, the Health & Activity data is now stored separately in iCloud. What does mean? Well, now you are able to do a factory reset and still save all the health and activity data.

This solved my problem, so now with my iPhone X, all URL's are gone.

You mean after years with this issue they are going to work on it. Hah, that's what they told me a year ago. I have totally reset and not backed up anything. Still can't get rid of the browsing history. My next devices will not be Apple. They don't seem to understand why corporate and healthcare won't use their product. This is a perfect example of why they never will. I set hardware standards for a 10 hospital 200 clinic organization and this sort of issue makes you wonder what else is screwed up.

Unfortunately, that is not an option for me. I will lose all Health & Activity data, which I'm not willing to do. I haven't heard anything from Apple yet, but I'm positive that this will be solved. The important that we, users, always take the effort and report issues back to Apple.

jazcan wrote:

This is also happening in Safari on my iMac. All systems are running the current OS/iOS.

You're welcome. Any chance after clearing, the domains are being fed back in ? If so turn off the button below.

Same problem. It effects my iPad Mini 4, IPad Pro, and iPhone 6 Plus. I have three items in the iPad mini that cannot be deleted and they don't match the web site signatures. Weather.com, Congress.net, Bing.net. I had an FBI-something or other appear on all three devices after just reading a news article on RT.COM On just the iPad Pro. Something very strange is going on and I think Apple has a huge intrusion problem with iOS 10,3.1.

Aloha jazcan.

Please let me be the first to welcome you back and extend my sympathies on your loss. You got your priorities straight. Family first, then if you have time ASC could always use your talent.

As to your question, which part doesn't clear ? I don't think the suggestions part ever cleared fully if that's the part.

Stay well, don't be a stranger. Bob.

Welcome back - good to see you 😎

Even in computer browsers, clearing cache is "unusual" to say the least. I have seen it clear to 0 KB - or "keep" several MB - just now it cleared to 285 KB from 350 MB !!

I think it may depend on how many TABs I have open?

Same problem. It effects my iPad Mini 4, IPad Pro, and iPhone 6 Plus. I have three items in the iPad mini that cannot be deleted and they don't match the web site signatures. Weather.com, Congress.net, Bing.net. I had an FBI-something or other appear on all three devices after just reading a news article on RT.COM On just the iPad Pro. Something very strange is going on and I think Apple has a huge intrusion problem with iOS 10,3.1.

10/20. I've done more investigating and discovered the CloudFront virus infecting all three machines! this is collecting all kinds of information - credit card, sites visited, contacts... - from our devices. And, it's crashing Safari. There are likely others, but this is one of the worst. I found this when I got a pop up window telling me I had won a random $1000 gift certificate. I didn't click on that, of course, but checked me cache and there it was.

OOOOkay. Just did a complete reset and restore from my MacBook Pro of the iPhone. Installed AdBlockPlus, Kaspersky, etc. Logged onto my iCloud account, fired up Safari and surfed over to new site The Hill, New York Times, and checked my PACER account. My Safari cache had over 100 different spyware and malware "trails". Could one of these secretly jail broke my phone.

I recently noticed this on an iPad.

It's only a small sample but over the past few days the following has worked for me. Rather than clear the cache in settings, I clear history within Safari itself.