How to Use Private Browsing on iPhone

Updated May 24,2018 | by Cody

Nowadays, privacy is increasingly important as the development of technology. As you often browse the web, it is important to know how to use private browsing on iPhone to protect your privacy.

While in Private browsing mode, Safari history, form information, and cookies will not be kept. When you close the private browsing window, Safari will remove all other temporary files. 

Why Should You Use Private Browsing Mode?

Have you ever used other people’s iPhone or iPad to access your email, social network, or bank account? In that case, you should use private browsing mode to reduce the risk of exposing your online activities to others.

Another very useful example is that when you want to buy a gift online to surprise someone. You certainly do not want anyone who has access to your iPhone to ruin the pleasure of a surprise.

To better protect your browsing privacy, you can also delete existing browsing history on iPhone generated when you did not use private mode.

Detailed Steps to Using Safari's Private Browsing Mode

Since iOS 7, Apple has made it clearer to enable Safari private browsing mode. You can simply use private mode within Safari without the need to go to Settings app to toggle on Private Mode. You can follow the steps below to use private browsing on iPhone or iPad.

Step 1. Within the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad, tap the new tab icon (on the bottom left) to bring up the open tabs view

Step 2. On the bottom left, you should see the "Private" button. Tap on it and Safari will bring out all the tabs opened in Private Browsing mode will display, if there is any.

Step 3. New and select one tab or create a new tab to start browsing privately on your iPhone or iPad.

How to Disable Private Browsing on iPhone

In some rare cases, a website won’t function as it should under Private Browsing mode. To made it function normally, you can turn off Private Browsing mode on iPhone.

Step 1. When you finish browsing in private mode, tap the tabs icon on the bottom right.

Step 2. swipe the open tabs one by one to close them all.

Step 3.Tap "Private" again (bottom left) to turn off Private Mode.

By closing all the private web tabs, the private browsing iPhone history is cleared completely from memory. For whatever reasons, if you want to disable private browsing on iPhone permanently, you can go to Settings > General > Restrictions > Websites > Limit Adult Content.

After that, you open Safari and you will not see the Private button any more. Other web browsers also have the same features as Private Browsing mode. Chrome calls it Incognito Mode, Edge Inprivate browsing, and Firefox Private browsing.

Bonus Tip: Clear Caches and Junk Files with One Click

While you using Safari surfing the internet or other apps, it will save cached files on your iPhone or iPad in order to load quickly. After running a long time, your iOS device may have lots of cache files and other junk files, which consume plenty of storage space.

With the increasing junk files, the performance of your Phone will drop. To restore your phone performance and free up storage space, you can use IOTransfer, a powerful iPhone Cleaner. Only one click, it can clean up app caches, crash logs, junk files and other temporary files.

You can free download IOTransfer now to clean your iPhone and improve performance. Besides, IOTransfer can help you download videos to your iPhone, backup iPhone to PC, and transfer files between iPhone and PC without using iTunes.

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