How To Clear App Cache On Pc

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This wikiHow teaches you how to clear the cache of temporary Internet files stored by Google Chrome both on desktop and in the Chrome mobile app.

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Open Google Chrome . Its app icon resembles a red, yellow, green, and blue sphere.
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Click ⋮ . It's in the upper-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Select More tools . This option is near the middle of the drop-down menu. Selecting it prompts a pop-out menu to appear.
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Click Clear browsing data… . It's in the pop-out menu. This will open the Browsing Data window.
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Click the Basic tab. This is in the upper-left corner of the Browsing Data window.
- If you want to clear Chrome's website settings cache, click the Advanced tab instead.
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Click the "Time range" drop-down box. It's near the top of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click All time . This is in the drop-down menu. Doing so ensures that all of your browser's cached files will be deleted.
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Check the "Cached images and files" box. It's in the middle of the window.
- Uncheck every other box on this page if you only want to clear the cached files.
- If you want to clear Chrome's website settings cache, check the "Cookies and other site data" box as well.
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Click CLEAR DATA . This blue button is in the bottom-right corner of the window. Doing so will prompt Chrome to delete your cached files and images from your computer and browser.
- If you checked the "Cookies and site data" box, Chrome will also clear out any cached versions of webpages, which will allow webpages to update when you visit them again. This option will sign you out of most accounts.

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Open Google Chrome . Tap the Chrome app icon, which resembles a red, yellow, green, and blue sphere.
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Tap ⋮ . This icon is in the top-right corner of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Tap History . It's in the middle of the drop-down menu.
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Tap Clear Browsing Data… . This red-text option is in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
- On Android, tap CLEAR BROWSING DATA... at the top or bottom of the screen.
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Select a time range on Android. If you're using an Android, tap the "Time range" menu near the top of the screen, then tap All time in the resulting menu.
- This option is the default on iPhone, and cannot be changed.
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Check the "Cached Images and Files" option. It's in the middle of the screen. This option will clear your Chrome browser's saved images and website files, which will clear some room on your phone or tablet.
- On Android, first tap the ADVANCED tab in the top-right corner of the screen.
- You can uncheck every other option on this page if you don't want to clear any other browsing data.
- If you want to clear your browser's cached website data, check the "Cookies, Site Data" (iPhone) or "Cookies and site data" (Android) option as well.
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Tap Clear Browsing Data . It's a red-text icon near the middle of the screen.
- On Android, tap CLEAR DATA in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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Tap Clear Browsing Data when prompted. Doing so will prompt Chrome to delete your cached files and images from your browser and phone storage. If you selected the "Cookies, Site Data" option, your website data cache will also be cleared, and you will be signed out of most sites that you were signed into.
- On Android, tap CLEAR when prompted.

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The chrome browser opens old tabs when I restart. How can I stop that?

You can go to settings and set from "continue where I left off" (or something like that) to "open new tab" or whichever option you require in the menu for startup of Chrome.
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Can I delete everything except the cache and cookies for one particular website?

Yes, but you must go through all of them individually. Follow the instructions in the article, there should be a whole list of all the sites you visit, you'll need to just delete them one at a time, leaving only the one you wish to save untouched.

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Clearing the website cache (as opposed to the temporary files cache) can help resolve issues in which websites won't load properly.

If you decide to clear the website cache (e.g., cookies and site data), you will be logged out of most websites.

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1. Open Google Chrome
2. Click ⋮
3. Select More tools
4. Click Clear browsing data...
5. Click the Basic tab.
6. Check the Cached images and files box.
7. Click CLEAR DATA

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