Safari iOS 10.3.1 not clearing Safari cache

You don't have to set up as new. But you can hit General settings > reset> reset all settings. And it will clear. Without erasing your data. However it will clear any fingerprints you have saved.

I tried resetting my iPhone as you suggested but it didn't clear the cache. I tried resetting and erasing data and restoring from my iMac but it still didn't clear the cache. Finally I reset an erased all data and selected "set up as new phone" and that did the trick.

That's strange. Mine was able to clear two times doing " erase all settings" twice last week. At this time I have 2 sites stuck in cache again. Both are legit websites showing 0kb but I don't feel like going through the inconvenience over and over again. Hopefully Apple will come up with a solution soon and an updated version

i think Private Mode only clears history it doesn't prevent site information showing in the cache. Its so annoying I'm gonna have to stop watching p o r n (really you can't say that?) 🙂 at least until Apple sort it out....

Experiencing Exact same problem as jazcan has described and I search in Private Mode so that does not make any difference here. I do not have iCloud turned on at all so that too did not make any difference in this puzzling delima. I know for sure that the problem occurred after the last IOS update to 10.3.1.

bobseufert wrote:

Thank you cupcakes4u for giving it a try and reporting the results. It looks like I need to come up with another brilliant solution. 🙂

you never know what solution you may get by "accident"

Penicillin

The Microwave

Velcro

Teflon

Vulcanized Rubber

Coca-Cola

Viagra

Again, I do not know if it's related, but with this problem, I've been spammed with hundreds of phishing emails, which I started forwarding to Apple's scam email address. And, I had my credit card number stolen and used. Everyone here is treating this like a bug, and I've been talking with dozens of people who are experiencing the more nasty problems I am seeing. I think this is a security hole. Anyone from Apple listening into this forum should chime in and let us know if these are related or not.

ChitlinsCC wrote:

bobseufert wrote:

Thank you cupcakes4u for giving it a try and reporting the results. It looks like I need to come up with another brilliant solution. 🙂

you never know what solution you may get by "accident"

Penicillin

The Microwave

Velcro

Teflon

Vulcanized Rubber

Coca-Cola

Viagra

Flubber. 🙂

bobseufert wrote:

ChitlinsCC wrote:

bobseufert wrote:

Thank you cupcakes4u for giving it a try and reporting the results. It looks like I need to come up with another brilliant solution. 🙂

you never know what solution you may get by "accident"

Penicillin

The Microwave

Velcro

Teflon

Vulcanized Rubber

Coca-Cola

Viagra

Flubber. 🙂

S P I D E R M A N

I am having that exact same issue with the 10.3.2, I actually used the Feedback app that comes installed with the beta and sent screenshots with Mark ups showing them the before and after history being cleared or lack there of.

On 10.3 I had 4 websites that would not clear from the history. I downloaded the beta 10.3.2 Monday of last week. I now have 9 random websites that will not clear. So I went from bad to worse. However I did use the Feedback application that is downloaded when you download the beta and sent screenshots

I am experiencing a very similar issue to this one, and after using the trusty search engines stumbled across this post.

Having tried everything I reverted to Apple Support Online. The Apple Care Support colleague advised that I had tried all the steps to clear the issue/clear history. The issue for me is having data retained within Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage > Safari 'History' of 4.6mb. Updating to 10.3.2 did not clear the issue.

All other Safari Storage options (Website Data & Offline Reading List) are both Zero KB and iCloud is not enabled for anything other than 'Find My iPhone' with the Safari toggle off.

Apple Care advised that they have raised a case file for this with Engineering as it would appear to be an issue with the software, indeed the lady at Apple Care checked her iPhone and found that when she had done all the steps to clear the History data she was left with 153mb. I was advised to use Private Mode ... however this will not remove the 'phantom data' being retained by Safari core app in iOS - but clearly should not add to the 4.6mb and risk it growing and growing.

Whilst talking online with Apple Care I did copy and paste the URL from this discussion thread.

So all fingers crossed that Apple Engineering can solved this issue.

Apologies if this is not quite the same issue reported in the original opening post ... but I felt it was similar and therefore would leave a comment.

Have a great day!

Two tips from King Penguin I saw from an earlier similar thread. After clearing the cache do a Reset and check your reading list. If anything there corresponds to the sites that don't delete; delete the article, clear your cache again do a Reset again. Good luck, this one looks like a toughie.