Hi,
I was wondering how the heck can you delete on-device search history on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1?
I tried to delete the search history within the browser but I still see search history when I go on the Internet.
Can you help?
Best regards to all!
Please be more specific. Do you mean in the browser, search history comes up, or are prior searches suggested in the panel above the keyboard as you are typing?
For browser, I suggest settings > application manager > Internet> clear cache, clear data This may not be sufficient if you log into Chrome, for example, from more than one device with the same login
For suggestions, settings> application manager> samsung keyboard> clear cache, clear data **Warning** this will probably clear your personal dictionary too. Once you use the keyboard again, you'll get a notice that "samsung keyboard can record keystrokes (or something like that) follow these steps to disable" follow those steps.
If you mean something else entirely, please post specifically.
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I'm not keen on sending Google any more information than necessary, and "Search Suggestions" in the address bar (wherein Google gets a recording of every URL I enter) is certainly not something I'm interested in.
I looked hard and couldn't find a way to disable it. Please don't tell me I have to switch browsers to avoid Google's "gradually make users think data mining is a-ok!" strategy.
Check if you have the latest "Google search" app from the market. Download if need be, then open it.
It will be in the app drawer. Hit menu, then settings, then web, and finally, disable web sugestions.
Oh, that worked. Thank you very much.
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Over the past week+, even before the latest update, Google Search has been acting wonky...
Note: I am often in an environment that isn't ideal for voice searches, so all my searching is initiated by tapping the search bar. I don't know if the problems that I am reporting occur with voice initiated searches...
Many times when I search no search results will come up... it will just sit there...
Clicking on images at the bottom always brings up results and then clicking back on web sometimes 'wakes up' search and produces search results.
Searching from within Chrome by typing a search on the URL bar always works and doesn't exhibit this problem...
What I have done to try to remedy it:
> Uninstalled Google Search updates and gone back to factory
> Force stopped three apps/services and cleared data: search, voice search and google services framework
> Removed and reinstalled my Google Account from the device
None of those steps fixed the problem...
Has anyone else experienced this?
Note: I am totally stock with an unlocked bootloader...
Thanks...
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OldDogEyes said:
Over the past week+, even before the latest update, Google Search has been acting wonky...
Note: I am often in an environment that isn't ideal for voice searches, so all my searching is initiated by tapping the search bar. I don't know if the problems that I am reporting occur with voice initiated searches...
Many times when I search no search results will come up... it will just sit there...
Clicking on images at the bottom always brings up results and then clicking back on web sometimes 'wakes up' search and produces search results.
Searching from within Chrome by typing a search on the URL bar always works and doesn't exhibit this problem...
What I have done to try to remedy it:
> Uninstalled Google Search updates and gone back to factory
> Force stopped three apps/services and cleared data: search, voice search and google services framework
> Removed and reinstalled my Google Account from the device
None of those steps fixed the problem...
Has anyone else experienced this?
Note: I am totally stock with an unlocked bootloader...
Thanks...
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Others have talked about this including me. Look at the following thread and comment there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967572&page=3
I tried every thing. The only way I found to clear is to hold whatever I want deleted and manually delete it
Example, type in M and everything with M pops up. I learned this is a separate issue that needs to be cleared within the phone and not the browser Google Chrome cause those clear settings doesn't help
I see these lil mfers removed that show recent search history, can you believe that
Stop watching porn without incognito.
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I'm on 4.4 - on the search box at the top of every home screen, when i click in it - there's a list of recent search items, that i can't get rid of.
I've tried:
- Deleting all web search history (from https://history.google.com/history/)
- Turning Web History off (from the same link)
- Turning off Chrome sync for history
- Factory resetting phone
It's not a big issue, just a control thing - I'd like to know how to do it if I want to! (i'm sure there used to be a way in older versions of android?)
Thanks in advance :good:
Open chrome browser , go to settings > privacy > clear browser data > select all items on the list > press clear.
Never mind I see you tried the Chrome sync clearing.
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Thanks - but that doesn't help - this is the search widget on the homescreens, not Google Chrome. I tried clearing the chrome history anyways to see if they're related and it does nothing.
Did you try deleting the data cache for the search app?
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Yep - I even factory-reset the phone.. the search widget must be pulling the history from somewhere. Very strange!
bump! Can anyone at least replicate this issue at all?
Thanks!
gneville said:
bump! Can anyone at least replicate this issue at all?
Thanks!
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Do you use google service "outside" of your mobile phone? In my case I used google search on my macbook (using safari) and all of my recent search is "copied" to my google search widget on my nexus. So I decide to remove all of recent search from google web history on my safari, and it works. The recent search now is gone.
*also try to remove your web history on your mobile chrome
Good luck!
Thanks for the suggestion - however I already removed my google web history?
I use the tap/highlight to web search functionality quite a bit (official name escaping me), and on the last use I accidently hit "always" instead of "just once" for Google search as the default. 99.99% of that time that's what I use, but I prefer being prompted for the choice. Which app do I need to reset the defaults in so that highlighting a word on a page and then selecting web search prompts me for which app to use? I can't seem to figure out which specific app controls that functionality.
Edit: clearing all app preferences and defaults did not clear that action, it still just automatically searches via Google and opens in a new chrome tab rather than prompting for an app to use. Whoops.
Thanks
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