Cookie & Cache GuideWhere the settings are

Desktop and phone

Where browsers put cookie and cache settings

These pages show where Chrome, Edge, Whale, Firefox, Safari, and Samsung Internet put the controls for cookies and cached files.

  1. 01What cookies and cache areWhat actually gets removed, and what does not
  2. 02Choose a smaller scopeOne site, or the cache only
  3. 03Follow your browserChrome, Edge, Whale, Firefox, Safari, and phones

Pick your browser

WINDOWS · MAC

Google Chrome

The keyboard shortcut, the settings path, and how to clear one site.

 WINDOWS · MAC

Microsoft Edge

Clear browsing data, with cookies and cache as separate rows.

 WINDOWS · MAC

Naver Whale

Whale settings, plus the address that opens the dialog directly.

 WINDOWS · MAC

Mozilla Firefox

Cookies and site data, and cached web content.

 MAC

Safari

Manage Website Data, and where Empty Caches lives.

 ANDROID · IPHONE

Phone browsers

iPhone Safari, Android Chrome, and Samsung Internet.

What changes, and what does not

Sessions end

A cookie can hold a signed-in session. After cookies are cleared, those sites show a sign-in page again.

Your files stay

The cache is a copy the browser kept so pages could open faster. It is not the file browser, and it is not your photo library.

Find the control

Open what to clear for the difference between one site, cookies, and cached files. Then open the page for the browser you have.

Menu labels vary by version and language. Each desktop page also lists an address that opens the settings screen. That address works only in that browser's address bar.