How to Clear Facebook Search History and Activity Log

If you are using your Facebook in different devices, you most likely to leave your search history in the devices that you used. If you are particular about your privacy and security of your Facebook account, you would want to clear any search history or activity log that you have made while using Facebook.

Here we are going to you how you can clear your search history using simple steps.

WHY CLEAR HISTORY AND ACTIVITY?

There are many reasons why you should be doing this, some of the top reasons are:-

1. SECURITY – It is best to clear your search history if you are login into your Facebook account using devices that you do not own. This would avoid any traces of your searches or activity in that particular device.
2. REDUCE STORAGE – The longer you use your Facebook account, the more data is being saved into your search history and activity log. Therefore, if you want to save some storage, you should clear these data.

So, if you are interested to learn how to do this, here are the steps.

HOW TO DELETE SEARCH HISTORY

Step 1

In your Facebook account, tap at the magnifying glass icon there

Step 2

At the “Recent searches”, tap “Edit”

Step 3

You can tap the “x” to delete specific searches you made

Or, you can tap at “Clear searches” above to clear all your Activity log

DELETE ACTIVITY LOG

Step 1

In your Facebook, at “Settings & Privacy”, tap at “Privacy shortcuts”

Step 2

Tap at “See you activity log”

Step 3

Select any activity log you want to delete by tapping the three-dot icon there

Step 4

Tap “Delete” to delete that particular activity log

So, there you have it – two simple ways how you can clear up your search history and activity log. Please leave us a comment below on what other things that you often clear to keep your privacy and security for your Facebook account.

Please also read our previous article on how to make your Facebook account completely private.