Incognito Mode is a most popular feature in Google Chrome and many other browsers that lets you search the web privately without saving your browsing history. That means it does not save your search history, cookies, sessions, or your sign-in data after closing the tab or browser. Once you have closed your tab, any other user can not see your browsing history when using the same device. But, your ISP will know what you are browsing in incognito mode. That is why many users are seeking a way to check incognito history in Google Chrome and desire to know how browsing history can be deleted.
If you are among them, you have landed on the correct platform, we will walk you through the ways on how to see incognito history. Let’s get right into it.
How to View Incognito History on Windows 10/11
You can view incognito browsing history, on your PC or Laptop by checking the DNS caches. You must be curious to know what is DNS. Well, DNS works as a phonebook on the internet where human text is converted to a machinery language that machines can read easily. What you are searching for is stored on DNS caches.
Here are the steps to see incognito history
- Go to the Windows menu by clicking the Windows key on your PC.
- Look for “Command Prompt”.
- Now right-click on the first “Command Prompt” tab and choose “Run as administrator”.
- Enter ipconfig/displaydns in the CMD window.
- Press the Enter key.
- Here, you will immediately see the list of domains visited on all your browsers, including incognito mode.
How to View Incognito History on Your Mac Device
If you are using a Mac device, you can go for the following steps to view the Incognito search history.
- Go to “Applications” on your Mac device.
- Navigate to the “Utilities option”.
- Now double-click on the Console.
- Choose the device and enter any:mdnsresponder in the window’s search bar.
- Now click the “Start” tab.
- Go to Utilities again and click on Terminal.
- Type sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder in the Terminal and press the Enter key.
- Enter your password where needed
- Now, open the Console windows again to see the incognito mode history.
Once done you can view your browsing history on a Mac device.
How to View Incognito History on Your iPhone
If you are an iPhone user, here is how to go incognito on a phone
- First of all, go to Settings and open Safari browser there.
- After that, just click on Advanced.
- Once done, just click on Website Data, and you can see Incognito History there.
That’s it.
How to Delete Incognito History on Your Windows Device
To delete incognito History on a Windows device follow the steps
- Begin by clicking the Windows key to open the Windows menu.
- Look for “Command Prompt”.
- You need to right-click on the first Command Prompt option and select Run as administrator.
- Enter ipconfig/flushdns in the CMD window
- Press the Enter key.
- Once done, it will flush the DNS caches and no one can see the browsing history
This will flush the DNS entries and now nobody can view websites that you’ve visited.
Reference: Radarro.com