If you feel comfortable with someone else looking through your search history, raise your hand.

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Sometimes it’s as innocent as shopping for a gift and not wanting to give away the secret.

Pro tip: Use incognito mode so you don’t get many ads showing precisely what you ordered.

Perhaps you looked up a medical symptom or condition.

You’re entitled to privacy there, too.

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If you’re not already in the habit of occasionally wiping out your search history, you should.

Facebook remembers a whole lot, including your search history. To keep some semblance of privacy on the site and app, follow the steps below to clear your Facebook search history on your computer:

Are you feeling choose?

You can delete single search history items instead of your entire history simultaneously.

Click on the three dots to the right of each search in the history list and tap Delete.

A menu will appear to confirm. Hit Delete again. 

Keep going: Wonder how Facebook knows so much? Hint: It doesn’t even need to listen to your convos.

The search box on Twitter can help you find profiles you look for often, but maybe you don’t want anyone stumbling across that list. No judgment here.

On your computer:

On your phone:

Our final social media stop: Instagram. Anyone with access to your phone and the app can see who you are looking up. To clear that info out:

Google Chrome

Social media search history spills the beans on what profiles you were looking for. There’s a lot more in your browser search history. 

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The good thing about syncing your account across your computer and phone means if you clear your searches in one spot, they’re gone everywhere.

Just be sure all your devices are signed into the same Google account to do that for Chrome.

Shortcut: You can delete everything at once. Follow the steps above. In the left-hand menu, click Clear browsing data. You can delete just your browsing history, cookies, and cache. Click the Clear data button once you’ve decided.

Of course, it doesn’t end there. These pages show everything Google knows about you.

To clear your search history in Edge:

Computer smarts: Hidden settings to try on your Mac or PC

To clear your search history in Safari on your iPhone or iPad: