{"id":2952,"date":"2022-07-08T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2024-08-27T05:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:32:48","slug":"how-to-clear-browser-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache","title":{"rendered":"How to clear your browser cache"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">While you\u2019re using the Internet, your browser is adding to its cache on your device\u2019s hard drive. Learn how this process can be helpful as well as harmful, and how to clear your cache.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-bleed-image\"><picture class=\"c-image\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-1600x600-1.jpg\" media=\"(min-width:767px) and (max-width:1600px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-1600x600-1.jpg\" media=\"(min-width:540px) and (max-width:767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-1600x600-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-1600x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy-and-safety","tag-privacy-and-safety"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to clear your browser cache - Microsoft 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How to clear your browser cache - Microsoft 365\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-800x550-1.jpg\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How to clear your browser cache - Microsoft 365","description":"Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"How to clear your browser cache - Microsoft 365","twitter_description":"Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/049-800x550-1.jpg","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache","name":"How to clear your browser cache - Microsoft 365","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-07-08T10:11:33+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-27T05:32:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/#\/schema\/person\/2c23c19871398789718358887bd04035"},"description":"Learn how to clear your browser cache, step by step. Your browser cache can help websites load quickly but can slow down your devices and lead to security concerns.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-to-clear-browser-cache#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Microsoft 365 Life Hacks","item":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Privacy &amp; Safety","item":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to clear your browser cache"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/","name":"Everyday Life Hacks","description":"Just another Everday Hacks Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/#\/schema\/person\/2c23c19871398789718358887bd04035","name":"M365 Lifehacks","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ca764838ccae7fc3be4511748247881?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ca764838ccae7fc3be4511748247881?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"M365 Lifehacks"},"url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/author\/m365adm"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}