Remember that time you did a Facebook search of your partner’s ex? And before that, when you had a huge crush on your sweetie, you’d check his or her profile page slightly too often. Oh, and recall that other time when you had too much wine and looked up The One That Got Away? Facebook does.
Whenever you search for something on Facebook, your search terms get stored in your Activity Log. Here’s how to how to delete facebook search history or view it.
The Activity Log is only viewable by you, but if you want to erase any of your old searches for whatever reason—or even if you just want to view them (to find something you forgot)—it’s really easy to find!
How to delete facebook search history:
1. Go to your profile:
2. Click the “Activity log” option at the bottom right of your cover photo.
3. Your activity log is a list of your posts and all Facebook activity, including your search history.
4. Next, click on the “More” option on the left-hand menu, under “Photos” ,”Likes” and “Comments.”
5. Scroll down the expanded list until you see “Search.”
6. You can now view your Facebook search history, in date order. To get rid of it, simply click “Clear Searches.”
7. Your Facebook search history is now a clean slate!
Most Important Question: How do I reset my search suggestions?
As you can see in comments Julian V. Jupiter asked, “I’ve done it. Yes, all searches have vanished and if I put cursor in the search bar of facebook, nothing appears on the dropdown. However, as soon as I start typing word, facebook is still displaying/autosuggesting searches I made before and deleted as instructed above. How do I completely delete them as if I just have a fresh Facebook account with no search yet at all?”
The answer is No, Unfortunately, We can’t really get rid of search suggestions on facebook. We tried contacting facebook asking the same question and this is what they said.
Search suggestions can’t be deleted, but your search history can. This Help Center FAQ will show you how to delete searches from your activity log:https://www.facebook.com/help/www/382661798450396/?ref=u2u. Both your search history and your activity on Facebook contribute to search suggestions, so deleting your search history may not remove certain suggestions from appearing.
We hope it helps.
Unlike facebook, you can completely delete your google search history. To do that, Go HERE.
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13 thoughts on “how to delete facebook search history”
I’ve done it. Yes, all searches have vanished and if I put cursor in the search bar of facebook, nothing appears on the dropdown. However, as soon as I start typing word, facebook is still displaying/autosuggesting searches I made before and deleted as instructed above. How do I completely delete them as if I just have a fresh Facebook account with no search yet at all?
Try to log out and login to your facebook account and check. If you still get auto-suggestions, let me know.
Hi dude,i already tried thousands time clearing my search history from activity log as you guided but the browser keep suggesting me the same [email protected] even i only type an “a” on it.How to get totally rid of it?
It should not buddy. But i tried myself and i also got same suggestions. Just give me sometime. I will get back to you with a solution.
Still waiting on your feedback TechYuga, my FB browser still “remembers” my search even though ive deleted my activity log
Extremely sorry Marie. We had sent you an e-mail. However, i will create a support ticket for you right now and you will get help by our online account experts within next 6 hours.
Hello Marie, I have created a support ticket for you and one of our online account expert have sent you a response to your query. Please check your email.
Hi, I’m having the same problem as Marie : my search history still appears every time I click on the search bar. Any news on how to solve the problem ?
Still have the problem like Maria
Please help to solve
Please let me know if you figured this out for Maria
Search suggestions still pop up the name I’m trying to delete forever. Help. I’ve deleted search history many times.
I can’t get into my activity log on face book..everytime i click it it redirects me back to my profile instead
What does it mean when the search history shows that I’ve searched someone with exclamation marks but no name “”