Facebook cache clear tool

To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. You can also choose to block companies from reporting their tracking data about you back to Facebook in the future. The company warned that users would likely see apps and websites in their account activity that they do not recognize. The Clear History tool was originally expected to launch last year. But as my former colleague Kurt Wagner reported at Recode , Facebook hit a number of unexpected delays. Baser chalked up the delay to two technical challenges, both of which are related to how Facebook stores user data on its servers.

Facebook data is not always stored in the same way it is collected. When Facebook collects web browsing data, for example, that data set includes multiple parts, like your personal identifying information, the website you visited and the timestamp for when the data was collected.

Facebook currently stores browsing data by date and time, not by which user it belongs to. Facebook had to build a new system that stored browsing data categorized at the user level. We also conducted months of research to get input from people, privacy advocates, policymakers, advertisers and industry groups.

We made important changes in response to what we learned. Click Preferences. Microsoft Edge for Windows Click the Tools menu three dotted lines in the upper-right corner , and open the Settings menu.

Internet Explorer for Windows. Click on the Settings menu in the upper-right corner. Click Internet options. Safari for iOS. Go to the Settings app on your device. Scroll down to the Safari menu. Scroll down and select Clear History and Website Data. Next to Time range to clear , choose Everything from the drop-down menu, select Cache in the items list, make sure other items you want to keep are not selected and then click the OK button.

See this article for details. Tip : There are several add-ons available that will allow you to clear the cache using an icon on your toolbar. Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page to do a search. The Mozilla community is not responsible for maintaining and supporting third-party add-ons. Please contact the add-on developer directly if you need assistance with an add-on. Was this article helpful? Volunteer Grow and share your expertise with others.