Safari history sync

HI
i found on my iPhone 4s , on safari history many adult sites saved in the history that I didn't recognize , I've never visited any of these sites , no one has an access to my phone , but I shared my Apple ID with someone , so could he browsing these sites and his safari history is shared on my mobile , I know that safari does not share history on your devices so what's the reasonable answer to this

I didn't say that you felt my story was unreasonable. And why would erasing the history not be a solution to getting rid of the history. Or are you not looking for that, but rather looking for how it got there? Someone, had to have visited the sites on the device.

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I spoke with Apple support again this weekend. The first support specialist told me that Safari browsing history was not a feature at this time. When I sent a screenshot of the notes of what updated in Safari 8.0.2 on December 11, 2014 from the AppStore, I got transferred to a senior support specialist. They had me try things like log out of icloud and then reset my network settings on my devices. But that unfortunately did not work. My next step which I did not have time to do, is to see if it is my iCloud account by creating a new iCloud account, logging out of iCloud and then resetting my network settings and then logging into iCloud with the new iCloud account and see if Safari history syncs.
I'm not sure what they will do for me if it is my iCloud account because I have so much on that account and have email addresses that I don't want to lose. And if it isn't the iCloud account they said it is probably my devices but I am not sure what they will have me do to try to fix it if it is. Set them up as new? I don't really want to do that, it takes forever to get everything back on the device.

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I've read on forums, people annoyed by the sync of Safari History between iPhone, Mac, etc
On my Mac (clean install) of Yosemite and iPhone 6 (clean install) iOS 8.1, it seems Safari doesn't sync the history.
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Regards,

Hello Phliangosx and iPhone 236545,
The only solution I've found so far was to create a brand new iCloud ID. I transferred everything from my old account, and in I set a transfer options to get the emails from my old account.
The problem may happen because I've made a clean install on my devices, without login out to iCloud. So there was "ghosts" but normally they disappear within 14 days. Otherwise you have to wait 90 days, for Apple to delete any device from iCloud completely if you don't use it for 90 days.
I really think it comes from the issue to have "ghosts" or something like that, what makes me say that is the fact that all my friends where the history sync well, only did an update on their iOS devices and Mac. And people I know with clean installed, it doesn't sync history.
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HI
i found on my iPhone 4s , on safari history many adult sites saved in the history that I didn't recognize , I've never visited any of these sites , no one has an access to my phone , but I shared my Apple ID with someone , so could he browsing these sites and his safari history is shared on my mobile , I know that safari does not share history on your devices so what's the reasonable answer to this

I thought you were referring to the "history" you see on the tabs list. This will include more than just open tabs from an iOS device; it will include all tabs that have not been cleared, which can sometimes go back quite a while depending on your browsing frequency. (My tabs list includes 24 sites, and all appear as iCloud tabs on my other devices.) If you are referring to the history folder inside the Bookmarks section on your phone, then that should only reflect sites previously visited on your phone (i.e., it doesn't include sites visited by other devices sharing the account). Syncing browsing history will be a new feature of iOS 8 later this fall.

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My daughter's iPad mini has restrictions set to 'limit adult content'. One of the apparent benefits of this was the the 'Clear' button on Safari history and 'Private Browsing Mode' were disabled. I was then able to periodically audit the history to check nothing untoward. I could also temporarily remove restrictions to clear the history before re-enabling them.
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For Yosemite, to clear history manually, you must:
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I am not a good judge of how long the history is retained because I erase my history and website data on a fairly regular basis. With the reading list feature and the ability to create a shortcut on the home screen for websites, I don't often find the need to go back to my history for weeks in the past.

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Where and how can I find it among the time machine files?
I have already read some suggestions in the web that told me to find it in the user/Library/Safari/History but I can't find any Safary folder in my Library :-(
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jimthing wrote:
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I doubt there's a maximum size specific to the History plist, but that (or corruption of it) would be the only limitation. And yes, plists do get corrupted with some frequency.
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That must be a huge+ file after 2 years! It's a bit surprising that it hasn't gotten corrupted before.
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