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How do I clear my browser cache?

Open your browser's privacy or history settings, choose the cached images and files, pick a time range and clear them. Steps for Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox.

Your browser keeps copies of pages, images and files so sites open faster next time. When a site changes, that saved copy can keep showing the old version or an old error. Clearing the cache makes the browser download a fresh copy. Pages may load a little slower the first time afterward, which is normal.

Before you clear anything, try a private or incognito window. If the page looks right there, clearing your cache will likely fix it.

What you need

  • The browser you use to view the site
  • About two minutes

Clearing cookies too will sign you out of most websites. If you only want fresh pages, clear the cache and leave cookies alone.

Chrome on a computer

Official guide: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392709

  1. Open Chrome and click the three-dot More menu at the top right.
  2. Choose Delete browsing data.
  3. Pick a time range. All time clears everything.
  4. Check Cached images and files. Uncheck the items you want to keep.
  5. Click Delete data.

Safari on a Mac

Official guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac

  1. Open Safari.
  2. Choose Safari > Settings, then click Privacy.
  3. Click Manage Website Data.
  4. Select your website in the list and click Remove, or click Remove All.

Removing website data can sign you out of those sites. To clear your history as well, choose History > Clear History and pick how far back to go.

Safari on iPhone

Official guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105082

  1. Open Settings, then tap Apps and Safari.
  2. To keep your history, tap Advanced, then Website Data, then Remove All Website Data, and confirm with Remove Now.
  3. To clear history and data together, tap Clear History and Website Data instead, choose a time frame and tap Clear History.

Microsoft Edge

Official guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/view-and-delete-browser-history-in-microsoft-edge-00cf7943-a9e1-975a-a33d-ac10ce454ca4

  1. Click Settings and more (the three dots at the top right).
  2. Go to Settings, then Privacy, search, and services.
  3. Under clear browsing data, click Choose what to clear.
  4. Pick a Time range.
  5. Check Cached images and files and uncheck the rest if you want to keep them.
  6. Click Clear now.

Firefox

Official guide: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache

  1. Open Firefox Settings. On a Mac, use the Firefox menu at the top of the screen.
  2. Select the Privacy and security panel.
  3. In the Browsing data section, click Clear browsing data.
  4. Next to When, choose Everything.
  5. Check only Temporary cached files and pages.
  6. Click Clear.

These steps match each browser's help pages as checked on 2026-10-02. Browsers change their menus from time to time. If yours look different, use the official guide linked above or ask us.

Common problems

  • If the old page still shows after clearing, close the browser fully and open it again.
  • If you were signed out of other sites, you also cleared cookies. Sign back in; nothing else was lost.
  • If the page is still wrong in a private window and on your phone, the problem is not your cache. Open a request with the page address and a screenshot.
  • If you use Chrome on a phone, the steps differ slightly. Use the phone tab on Google's guide linked above.

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