How to Clear History in Xiaomi Phone: The Complete Guide

Xiaomi’s current MIUI or HyperOS smartphones accumulate massive amounts of data in daily use, not just photos and apps, but hidden logs, browser cache, geolocation history, and call logs that can take up gigabytes of memory. Periodic history cleaning becomes not just a matter of privacy, but a necessity to maintain high performance.

Many users mistakenly believe that removing the app shortcut or cleaning the Download folder completely solves the problem of memory overflow. However, the Android operating system is more complex, and digital traces of your activity are stored in dozens of system sections. In this article, we will discuss in detail how to clean up the history in the Xiaomi phone at different levels to return the gadget to factory speed and protect personal data from prying eyes.

Let's start with the most obvious and frequently used tool, the Mi Browser browser, which is installed by default on all devices of the brand, which collects the lion's share of digital garbage when surfing the Internet.

Clearing History in Mi Browser

Xiaomi’s standard browser is known for its speed, but also its tendency to cache. To delete data about visited sites, you need to open the app and go to the settings menu, which is usually hidden behind the profile icon or three bars in the lower right corner, then select Settings and find the Privacy and Security section.

In the menu that opens, you will see the option Clear Data. By clicking on it, the system will prompt you to select specific types of information to delete. This can be your visit history, cookies, cached images and saved passwords. Deleting cookies will lead to logging out of accounts on the sites, so be ready to re-enter logins.

To clean it up, you can use the built-in security tool. Go to the Safety app (green zipper icon), select Cleanup and wait until the scan is over. The system will suggest removing the debris accumulated by the browser and other applications.

• 🗑️ Visit history: full list URL-The addresses you have opened all along.
• 🍪 Cookies: small text files that save session status and website preferences.
• 🖼️ Cache: Temporary image and script files to speed up page loading.
• 🔑 Passwords: saved data for automatic login.

It is important to understand that regular cache cleaning can paradoxically slow down the load of frequently visited sites, as the phone will have to re-download their content. However, if you notice that the pages are displayed incorrectly or “curved”, cache reset is the first action you need to perform.

Delete data in Google Chrome and other browsers

If you don't use a standard browser, you probably have Google Chrome installed on your Redmi or Poco. The cleaning principle is similar here, but the path to settings is different. Open the browser, click on the three dots in the upper right corner and select History, then New tab, or immediately go to Settings → Privacy.

In the Clear History section, you will be asked to select a time range. You can only delete data for the last hour, the last day or for "All the time". For complete cleaning of the system, it is recommended to choose a maximum period.

⚠️ Note: If you are synced to a Google account, deleting your phone history can automatically delete it on your other devices (tablets, laptops) if sync is enabled.

Alternative browsers like Firefox, Opera or Yandex have their own storage algorithms. Most of the time, the path is through the Settings → Personal Data or Privacy menu. The Yandex Browser, popular in the CIS, has a Turbo feature and a separate Tablet folder, which also require periodic cleaning through the application settings.

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Use Incognito mode to visit sites whose history you do not want to save, in which the browser automatically deletes all data after closing the tab.

Clearing the call history and SMS-message

Call log and text messages are another layer of personal information that is often ignored.Cleaning up your call history on Xiaomi is done in the standard Android way, but has its nuances in the MIUI interface. Open the Phone app (green handset) and go to the Log tab.

Here you'll see a list of all incoming and outgoing calls. To delete the entire story at once, press and hold your finger on one of the records until the selection menu appears. In the top corner, you'll see a "Select All" button or a basket icon. Confirm the action, and the log will be cleared. We are similarly SMS-Messages: go to the Messages application, tap for a long dialogue and choose to delete.

It's worth noting that deleting the log records doesn't remove them from your mobile phone's billing, and if you want complete anonymity, it's not enough, but it's effective to free up space on your device and hide information from people taking the phone in their hands.

For users who often communicate through instant messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber), each instant messenger needs to be cleaned separately through its privacy settings.

System Cleaning through Security Application

Xiaomi owners have a unique advantage: a powerful built-in Security app that not only deletes files, but also cleans the history of application usage. Launch the app, wait for the scan to be completed, and press the Cleanup button.

After the initial cleanup, click on the Acceleration icon (rocket) which closes the background processes and clears the RAM, which also resets the temporary history of running programs. For a deeper analysis, click on the Garbage icon after scanning, the system will show a detailed list of files that can be deleted safely.

In the Security app settings, you can enable automatic cleaning, and you should set a schedule so that your phone can service itself at night when you're not using it, and this will prevent a critical mass of temporary files from accumulating.

• 🚀 Acceleration: Closes background applications and cleans RAM.
• 🧹 Cleanup: Deletes temporary files, remnants of deleted programs and cache.
• 🛡️ Antivirus: checks the system for malware that can mine a crypto in the background.
• 📊 Storage Analysis: Shows Which Folders Take Up the Most Space.

⚠️ Note: Deep Cleaning in the Security app may suggest removing large video files or documents. Carefully check the list before confirming to avoid losing important personal archives.

Delete location history and voice assistant

Xiaomi smartphones constantly track your location for maps, weather, and recommendations, and this story is stored in your Google account and in your MIUI system. To clear it, go to Settings → Google → Location History. You can delete the entire travel chronology here.

You should also look at the voice assistant, which is a voice assistant, if you use Google Assistant or Xiao AI (on the global version limited), they save audio recordings of your queries. To clean up your voice history on Google, go to Google Settings → Data Management → My activity, where you can set up autodelete records older than 3 or 18 months.

Remember the history in the Google Play Store, the app store stores a list of all the programs you've ever installed, and you can't clean that list completely, because it's tied to your account, but you can hide irrelevant apps from the library, although it's more of a cosmetic procedure.

Radical measures: Resetting and cleaning through ADB

If standard methods don’t help free up space or you’re preparing your phone for sale, the only option is a full reset. Make sure to back up before doing so. Go to Settings → About Phone → Settings Reset → Erase all data.

For advanced users, there is a method of cleaning through ADB (Android Debug Bridge), connecting the phone to a computer with USB debugging enabled, you can execute a command to clean the Dalvik cache and system logs. This is safe, but requires a PC and drivers.

adb shell pm trim-caches 999999999

This command is to force the cache of all applications to a minimum, which can be useful if after updating the firmware HyperOS the phone started to work slowly, and the usual cleaning does not help, but using this method daily is not recommended, as the system will again build up the cache for performance.

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Complete resetting is the only way to guarantee that you will delete the entire story without the possibility of recovery by standard means.

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