Clear Cache, Cookies and History in Brave

Updated at: May 20, 2024

The controls to clear your Cookies, Browsing history, cache and other data in Brave are all stored in the same screen. To display these controls and choose what you want to clear, follow these instructions.

  1. Click the "Customize and control Brave" menu button

    Click the button that looks like three little black lines on top of each other in the top right corner of the Brave window.

    The location of the Customize and Control menu button

    A menu will be displayed when you click the "three lines" button.

  2. Click "Settings" in the menu

    You will see an option named Settings near the bottom of the big menu that just appeared. Click Settings to open Brave's Settings screen.

    The menu showing the Settings option

  3. Click "Privacy and security"

    In the menu on the left, click Privacy and security to reveal Brave's controls regarding privacy and security.

    The menu showing the Privacy and security option

  4. Choose what to clear from Brave

    Basic controls

    The basic interface for clearing browsing data from Brave will appear; it offers a straight-forward way to choose what to remove from Brave.

    The interface to clear browsing data - there are checkbox options on the left for each item, and Basic/Advanced tabs along the top

    Here you can easily remove the three most common things you want to delete from Brave - Your browsing history, cookies and other data, and cached images & files.

    You can also select the Time range to clear the data from - this is useful if you just want to remove data from the last hour, or the last day. Click the the drop down to select the time range to clear - if you want remove all the data, set it to All time.

    Advanced controls

    If you want to also clear advanced data, such as your list of saved usernames and passwords, auto-filled form data and so on, click the Advanced tab at the top and you will see more options to clear these types of data as well.

  5. Click the "Clear data" button

    Once you have made your choice about what you want to clear, simply click the Clear data button, and Brave will remove your chosen types of data.

    Brave's Clear data button, which will clear the selected data types

  6. Close the Settings tab

    Now that Brave has cleared all the cache, history, and other data that you have selected, simply close the Settings tab and continue browsing.

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