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Reddit is one of the most used platforms or forums worldwide. Millions of publications or questions are asked daily, as well as comments and answers. This means many users can search for certain doubts, interests, or problems to participate in the available threads.
However, these searches made on Reddit will be stored in your profile, creating what is known as search history. Fortunately, if you want to get rid of Reddit’s search history, you can do it.
You can search for anything in the Reddit app or the browser version. The platform will show the search results closest to the term used. But also, the search carried out will be stored in your Reddit user account. All search terms used in Reddit will be stored in the Search History of the platform.
Unfortunately, this Reddit search history is not to the users’ liking when interpreting that this could be a privacy failure if someone accesses their Reddit profile. Unfortunately, Reddit’s search history cannot be disabled. However, you can empty or delete Reddit search history.
Reddit allows users to delete specific searches from Reddit search history or clear history completely.
Be that as it may, in this tutorial, we will show you how to clear Reddit history from the mobile app for Android, iPhone, or the Web version.
Related reading: How to Delete Reddit Account Permanently?
How to clear Reddit history on Android or iPhone?
- Open the Reddit app
2. Click on the search field.
3. This will display several of the search terms used.
4. Select the X with each of the terms to be deleted so that they are deleted.
5. To delete all the history, click on the profile photo.
6. When the menu is displayed, select: Adjustments
7. This will show an adjustment list between which we must search and select: Clear local history
8. A small window will be displayed where we must confirm the deletion of the search history by clicking on Clear local history again.
9. Done; Reddit’s history will be removed entirely and with all search terms used.
How to clear Reddit history from the Web version?
- Open the Reddit website in your browser and log in to your account.
2. Here, do click in the search field.
3. At the top of the list will appear the last search terms used.
4. Next to them, you will see the icon: X
5. Click on the X icon next to the term you want to remove from the Reddit history.
6. This will delete the search terms from the Reddit history you want.
