How do I remove search from Chrome?

You can view your browsing history in Chrome. On a desktop or laptop computer, you can use the Journeys view of history to continue browsing that you’ve already started and find related searches.

Table of Contents Show

See your history
Clear your history
Delete an item from your history
Remove an image from New Tab page
What your history page shows
Browse privately
Related resources
Delete a single auto-fill suggestion in Chrome:
Turn off popular search suggestions in Chrome:
Delete a password or address from Chrome's Autofill memory:
Turn off Google's auto-fill Search suggestions in Safari:
Turn off Google's auto-fill Search predictions in Firefox:
How do I delete unwanted search?
How do I remove unnecessary search engine from Chrome?
Why can't I remove search engines from Chrome?

If you don’t want a record of pages you visited in Chrome, you can delete all or some of your browsing history. If you delete your browsing history, it takes effect on all devices where you turned sync on and signed in to Chrome. You can also disable the Journeys view of history if you’d like.

Separately, you can also delete your Google search history from your account.

Learn more about how to turn sync on or off in Chrome.

See your history

Clear your history

Tip: In My Activity, you can delete your search history.

Delete an item from your history

Tip: You can remove an item from a specific site’s history while on that site:

Remove an image from New Tab page

To see the sites you visit most, open a new tab. To remove an image, touch and hold it. Then, select Remove.

What your history page shows

Your History page shows the webpages you've visited on Chrome in the last 90 days. It doesn’t store Chrome pages you’ve visited like chrome://settings, pages you've visited in Incognito mode, or pages you've already deleted from your browsing history.

If you're signed in to Chrome and syncing your history, then your History page shows webpages you’ve visited across all your synced devices for much longer. If you're signed out of Chrome, your History page won't show webpages across your other devices.

Browse privately

If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can browse in private with Incognito mode.

Using a Chromebook at work or school? Your network administrator can turn off browsing history. If history is off, your History page won't list webpages you've visited. Learn about using a managed Chrome device.

Search the web on Chrome
Set your default search engine

Was this helpful?

How can we improve it?

Welcome to Product Support, a column devoted to helping you get the most out of the gadgets and software you already use.

Google Search, the feature you likely use every time you type something in your browser's search bar, is the most popular search engine on the planet. Millions and millions of people use it for everything and anything, from researching school projects to shopping for the latest gaming consoles, looking for cool new recipes to finding that movie you can't remember the name of. The problem is that when typing fast, we all can fall victim to the occasional spelling error. And since Google remembers, it will autofill that mistake over and over again. Ugh.

Fortunately, Google is smart enough to remember, and it can be trained to forget. Whether you're using Google Search in Chrome, or another web browser like Safari or Firefox, here's how you can delete mistakes as well as disable its auto-fill feature entirely.

Delete a single auto-fill suggestion in Chrome:

chrome settings on a macbook

Courtesy

Open Chrome.
Start typing the mistaken web address in the Search Bar.
The incorrect web address will appear in Chrome’s autocomplete suggestion area below the Search Bar.
Scroll down using your keyboard’s arrow keys until the autocomplete suggestion is highlighted.
Click the X on the far-right of the highlighted search suggestion.

Boom, done. You won’t see that auto-fill suggestion anymore. Another option is to turn off all auto-fill predictions in general. Here’s how.

Turn off popular search suggestions in Chrome:

chrome settings on a macbook

Courtesy

Open Chrome and go to google.com.
Select Settings in the bottom-right corner.
Select Search settings in the drop-down menu.
Scroll down to the Autocomplete with trending searches section and select Do not show popular searches.
Scroll down and select the Saved button.

Delete a password or address from Chrome's Autofill memory:

chrome settings on a macbook

Courtesy

Open Chrome.
Select the three vertical dots in the upper-right corner of Chrome browser.
Select Settings.
Select Autofill.
From here you can find your old usernames, passwords, addresses and payment methods and wipe them from Chrome's memory.

Turn off Google's auto-fill Search suggestions in Safari:

chrome settings on a macbook

Courtesy

Open Safari.
Select the Safari option in your Mac's menu bar (in the top left corner of your screen).
Select Preferences in the drop-down menu.
Select the Search option.
In this screen, Google should be selected as your default search engine.
Deselect the option that says "Include search engine suggestions."

Turn off Google's auto-fill Search predictions in Firefox:

chrome settings on a macbook

Courtesy

Select Firefox in the menu bar at the top of your screen.
Select Preferences.
Select the Search tab on the left side of your screen.
Google should be selected as your default search engine. Deselect the option that says "Provide search suggestions."

LEARN MORE

How do I delete unwanted search?

Delete Search history.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google app ..

At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial. Search history..

Choose the Search history you want to delete. You can choose: All your Search history: Above your history, tap Delete. Delete all time..

How do I remove unnecessary search engine from Chrome?

How to Remove Search Engines From Chrome on an Android Device.

On your Android device, launch the Chrome app..

Tap the “three dots” icon..

Scroll down and select “Settings.”.

Click “Search engine.”.

The default setting is Google. You'll see a list of alternative search engines. Make your selection by tapping on it..

Why can't I remove search engines from Chrome?

With the release of Chrome 97, the engineers on the Chromium team have removed the option of deleting default search engines in the browser. The change affects all Chromium-based browsers.