IOS Safari private browsing keeps history

iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0.1
Turning on Safari private mode in settings -> switch to Safari -> Enter a google search -> Turn private mode off -> Search is still in history!!
This is *NOT* private. If this is a bug is anyone else experiencing it?
Apple please fix!!

Try using a different browser such as Firefox.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
Cookie management is a little different and may suit your purposes.
From the Firefox menu bar click Firefox / Preferences then select the Privacy tab.

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Safari Private Browsing keeps cookies

I thought that Safari was supposed to purge the cookies added during private browsing as well...seems as if it did that before, but doesn't now.

HI Jim,
This from the Safari Help Menu:
About cookies
A cookie is a small file created by a website to store information. The cookie is stored on your computer. Cookies are normally helpful and harmless; it’s rare to encounter a bad cookie.
When you visit a website that uses cookies, the site asks Safari to put cookies on your computer. When you return to the site later, Safari sends back the cookies that belong to the site. The cookies tell the site who you are so that the site can show you information that’s appropriate for you.
Cookies can store information that identifies you, such as your name and email address. A website has access only to the information you provide. For example, a website can’t determine your email address unless you provide it. A website can’t gain access to other information on your computer.
When you use the default cookie preferences in Safari, you won’t know when Safari is accepting or sending cookies.
You can change your cookies preferences so that Safari doesn’t accept cookies or accepts them only from limited sources.
And here's more info: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question82.htm
Carolyn

This message keeps coming up when I log in to my email ---In order to use Yahoo Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off

this message keeps coming up each time we try to log in to our email. In order to use Yahoo Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off"
I have gone to settings but you cannot turn off the private browsing anywhere
can someone help,us out?
thanks

You turn private browsing off on the Safari page. Tap the + sign in the upper right corner, then tap private in the lower left corner. You know you're in private when the top of the screen is dark.

Safari private browsing is not private-pls advice

A good and bad thing about MBP is its transparency in documenting things done (things done today, past week etc). Everything is documented and available. It is disturbing of course if one is equipped with secrecy-genes.
In Safari private browsing is not quite private. As Christian Buerli wrote in MacFormat, uk on page 77 in summer 2008 "even with private browsing on, the domain names of visited, Flash enabled sites will be recorded to /Library/Prefs/Macromedia/FlashPlayer/#SharedObjects/.
My question is if I can dump all these shared objects (must be many hundreds of them) with no harm done to anything else.
pls advice,
pyry

Safari can keep your browsing history private. When you turn on private browsing, Safari doesn’t remember the pages you visit, your search history, or your AutoFill information, so your partner cannot see where you have been, but you must also remember to also turn off acceptance of cookies.
In all other respects Private Browsing is not as private as you might think:
http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-make-safaris-private-browsing-fea ture-actually-private/
http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=9054
and then Apple's own advice from here: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/privacy_safari.html
"Note that the Private Browsing option does not prevent Safari from collecting cookies (the preference files automatically generated by many websites). The Reset Safari option clears all cookies. If you want to delete only certain ones, choose Preferences from the Safari menu, click the Security tab, and then click Show Cookies. You can select and delete individual cookies from the list that appears. Careful, though — if you’re a frequent web user, this list can be very, very long."
which is itself incomplete, the relevant part being 'If you want to delete only certain ones.
To that end it is useful to have Safari Cookies installed, which is the only cookie manager available for Safari:
http://sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/
which automatically deletes all cookies not marked as 'favourites' when closing Safari. It does the same for Flash Cookies, but they are subject for themselves:
From this website:   http://machacks.tv/2009/01/27/flushapp-flash-cookie-removal-tool-for-os-x/   For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is delivered in Flash, Google/Doudleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure to be tracking your browsing behavior with Flash cookies. These companies can see you traverse the Internet as you come upon the plethora of sites that contain their embedded advertising. Check out the Wikipedia entry here.  In Mac OS X they are stored in the following location: 
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects
  The settings for the Flash cookies are stored in: /User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys   In OS X Local Shared Objects, or Flash Cookies, are appended with a .sol suffix. Flush deletes all the Flash cookies (.sol) and their settings.  Flush can be downloaded from that page.  If you want to retain certain Flash cookies but not others, the excellent add-on for Safari called SafariCookies now includes a setting for automatically deleting flash cookies you don't want to retain, when Safari is shut down, in the same as it deals with ordinary cookies:  
http://www.sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/index.htm   which not only does that but much more equally useful stuff!   This article covers the issue in more depth:  
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/   Flash cookies are also known as 'Zombie Cookies' and are used by a number of firms, including Hulu, MTV, and Myspace. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the internet security firm Sophos, told BBC News that the source of the trouble was Adobe Flash itself, which he called "one of the weirdest programs on the planet".  "I think it's highly unlikely that these large companies have abused Flash cookies - which are different from browser cookies - with malicious intent," he said.  "I think it's much more likely that the vast majority of users are simply oblivious to the bizarre way in which Adobe allows them to configure the software."   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10787882   And a more recent article:   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=flash&s t=cse

When I try to open my Yahoo mail in safari, I get a message which states:" In order to use Yahoo mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings Safari Private Browsing, and turn off" The problem is my ipad does not a Private Browsing switch

When I try to open my Yahoo mail in safari, I get a message which states:" In order to use Yahoo mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings>Safari>Private Browsing, and turn off" The problem is, my ipad does not a Private Browsing switchat this location.

With iOS 7 on the iPad, you turn Private Browsing on and off by tapping the URL field. The screen that opens up has your bookmarks on it. In the bottom left corner is a hot button marked 'PRIVATE'. Tap on the word 'PRIVATE' to turn private browsing on or off. Yeah, there aren't any instructions anywhere that I can find to do this, and if you follow Yahoo's instructions, they don't work. This doesn't happen with the previous Apple OS, and you can restore your iPad to the older OS.

HT1677 In order to use Yahoo! Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off.

In order to use Yahoo! Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off.
Would this not make my privacy vulnerable?

With iOS 7 on the iPad, you turn Private Browsing on and off by tapping the URL field. The screen that opens up has your bookmarks on it. In the bottom left corner is a hot button marked 'PRIVATE'. Tap on the word 'PRIVATE' to turn private browsing on or off. Yeah, there aren't any instructions anywhere that I can find to do this, and if you follow Yahoo's instructions, they don't work. This doesn't happen with the previous Apple OS, and you can restore your iPad to the older OS.

I've been using my email for months since I've had my pad then I get this notice, In order to use Yahoo Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off..why now

I've been using my email to my IPad for months since I've bought it the I got a notice, In order to use Yahoo Mail, please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Settings » Safari » Private Browsing, and turn it off....why now after all these months is someone trying to hack in?

You turn private browsing off on the Safari page. Tap the + sign in the upper right corner, then tap private in the lower left corner. You know you're in private when the top of the screen is dark.

Where is the safari private browsing setting

Where is the private browsing setting in safari on ipads, I can't access my emails because i have to turn off the private browsing setting but I can't find it.
It says settings - safari - private browsing - turn it off, thanks

Tap "Private" on Safari Screen to disable Private Browsing. When top of screen is white, Private Browsing is off.

Trying to get yahoo mail, says turn off Private Browsing, go to Safari, Private Browsing, turn off. But Private Browsing is not there

I am trying to get to my Yahoo mail and ipad is telling me to turn off Private Browsing, I go to Safari, Private Browsing to turn it off and I cant get to Private Browsing

Tap "Private" on Safari Screen to disable Private Browsing. When top of screen is white, Private Browsing is off.

TS1398 I can't use my yahoo mail. it says to turn private browsing off. it says to go to settings, safari, private browsing. mind dosen't have private browsing.

I can't use my yahoo mail. it says to turn private browsing off. it says to go to settings, safari, private browsing. mind dosen't have private browsing.

Make sure Private Browsing is off.
Tap "Private" on Safari Screen to disable Private Browsing. When top of screen is white, Private Browsing is off.

Is there a way to disable Safari private browsing in iOS 7?

I love many of the new features in iOS 7; however, I'm concerned about private browsing. Many children have iPads, iPhones, iPods... we need to know where they are browsing!

Private browsing was also available I believe in iOS 6.x.
Download the MacGruff browser and install it and set retrictions within that browser. Then go into Restrictions and don't allow adding new apps and restrict Safari.
There are not apps/features that will let you audit his browsing or use of the iPhone. I believe that their are some 3rd party vendors that do this in some manner, most likely by directing all activity through their servers.

Private Browsing keeps turning itself off

Is Private Browsing supposed to only be temporary? Every time I restart Safari 6, Private Browsing turns it self back off again. I wouldnt even care really if it didnt broadcast my current browsing activites to my family-used iPad! Talk about security issues... (Sure I can turn off Safari syncing on the iPad, but then I lose all bookmarks and auto login info).

Well I guess my point is that it's not really a "setting" if it doesn't stay "set". I realize it is defaulted to off, but once you change it from the default setting, it should remail off--even if restarting Safari. Private Browsing on iOS works as expected; you turn it off and it stays off. I feel like this is a major oversight for Safari on OS X, especially considering the privacy concerns I previously noted. Unless, of course, there is a glitch with my particular system or I am missing a more permanent option somewhere keep Private Browsing turned on.

Private browsing, google history

Heres a good question that i can not find an anwser too, using safri on the ipad when I have private browsing on, why do web sites or searches still show up in googles history even tho i am not logged in?

Private Browsing just means that when you close Safari, the app will not remember the webpages you visited. Individual websites may still keep track. Private Browsing does not stop Google from tracking you.

Safari Private Browsing Logs Me Off Sites

If I am logged into sites like gmail, facebook, bankofamerica, etc, and then turn on private browsing in Safari, I am logged off those sites and cannot log back in until I turn off private browsing. Is this supposed to happen? I would think that one of the main reasons to use private browsing is to cover your tracks when using these types of sites especially. Thanks,

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I can't access my emails. It tells me to go to settings, safari, Private Browser. I have no Private Browser. What can i do?

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I am guessing two things:
1. You are trying to access email in Safari (and not through the Mail app).
2. You are running iOS 7.
Go to the open pages screen in Safari (or the bookmarks screen). Tap the "Private" button to turn it off.

IOS Safari private browsing keeps history

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