how to recover safari history on iPhone

“I’d like to search internet with my Safari on iPhone, now i couldn’t find some website on it, what should it do to recover Safari history on iPhone?”

Safari offers us special experience in searching internet, and most people are Safari fan. So there will be many important browsing history on it. When we lost or deleted some Safari history, it’ll be difficult for us to recover them. But there are still ways can help us recover Safari history on iPhone. Follow below steps and learn more about how to recover Safari history on iPhone.

Recover Safari history selectively with iRefone

Firstly, we’ll introduce you a third-party iOS data recovery software iRefone, which can recover more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes. Messages, Safari history, WeChat messages ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and you can preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



1.Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



2.When we enter the new interface with many files that iRefone can recover, click “Safari History” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



3.Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose the Safari history you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.

Remark: if you don’t need to restore them selectively, or you want to try some other free ways, you can follow below steps.

Recover some Safari history by using its Setting

1.Open your iPhone, go to Setting, then scroll down to find Safari, and click it.

2.Then scroll down and click “Advance”, now tap on “Website Data”, some of your Website data will show up. And you can find some websites you need.

Remark: it can only find some of your website data, instead recovering all of them.

Recover Safari history from iTunes Backup

If you have done backup in iTunes, you can recover them from your iTunes backup.

Launching your iTunes, click iPhone image icon on the top bar. Go to Files--Summary, and you’ll see all your backup files in the left side bar. Click “Restore Backup” on the right page. Now choose the files you need, and confirm with “Restore”.



Tips: it won’t allow us to restore part of them, we have to restore the whole folder, so some of our iPhone data will be overwritten.

Recover Safari history from iCloud Backup

We can also restore Safari history from iCloud backup if we have done backup in iCoud before.

1.Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase all content and settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

2.Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the iPhone data you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.



Remark: when we restore the iPhone data from iCloud backup, it will need us to erase all content and settings. So we’ll need to do another backup before restoring, in case some of our iPhone data are overwritten.