Can my parents see my Internet history on my phone, even if I delete it?

If you delete it they shouldn’t be able to see it, although sometimes search engines suggest previously searched things when you begin typing in the search bar. As well as deleting your browser history, it might help to delete some cookies too I think, but I’m not sure how they work so don’t quote me on that.

If you’re using a Smartphone you can get free Apps that use private browsing, basically they are just like using incognito mode on Chrome but in an App form. Getting one of those will save you having to delete the history, although it can look suspicious having a dedicated App for private browsing.

It appears that you are using a iPhone. You can go to Settings -> Safari -> Private Browsing -> On.

The bar at the top and bottom in Safari will turn black when private browsing is on.

Parents can see e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

If you delete your history your parents will know you are hiding something.

No, if you were deleted everything from your phone internet history as well as from cookies.

Okay here is the deal. I’m assuming you’re asking this because you don’t want your parents to see what you do on the internet on your phone, perhaps you’re afraid you’ll get “caught”. I’m also guessing they technically own the phone, and the service and you are privileged enough to have control of it.

So that being said, you should not use that phone for stuff your parents wouldn’t approve of. If you choose to do it anyway, then you are accepting the trade-off of the risk of being caught, and they have the ultimate control over that. So don’t get upset if you get busted.

If, however, you are doing something legitimate (shopping for mom’s birthday and you don’t want her to see where you bought the gift from, for example), then disregard the above.

Now then, depending on the browser you use, there are a few different things that track your usage. You have the “History” which is a list of sites you’ve visited, and you can delete that in the browser settings. You also have cookies and temp files, which you can also delete, although it may or may not be a separate process depending the app. THEN you still have auto-complete which fills in fields like search bars and URLs with search phrases or website addresses you’ve previously entered.

You gotta delete all those things in order to be completely incognito.

However… if you do this on your home wi-fi (and your parents pay for the internet), then your parents could get a log of all activity from the ISP, including URLs visited by you on the wifi. Nothing you can do to delete that, sorry. If you use 3G or 4G data to surf the web on your phone, the phone provider has those same records.

P.S: Ctrl + Shit + N while in Chrome will open a new Incognito browser window.

How old are you?
I have an 18 year old. He’s had a cell phone since he was 11.
I have never felt the need to check his phone.
I’m just wondering why your parents would feel the need to check up on you.