How to Clear Xiaomi Redmi Request History: A Complete Guide

Today’s Xiaomi Redmi smartphones remember every action you take, turning into a digital archive of personal information. Often users do not even think about how much data about visited sites, watched videos and entered search phrases is stored in the device’s memory, which can become a problem when selling a gadget, transferring it to another family member or simply wanting to increase privacy.

The process of removing activity traces is not always obvious, as MIUI or HyperOS systems share the story among many applications and system services. There is no simple way to “wipe everything off with a single button” on the standard menu, which often puzzles the owners of equipment.

In this article, we will discuss all possible methods for deleting your query history, learn how to manage data in system search, browser, YouTube and voice assistant, and understand the difference between deleting your account history and local device data.

Delete History in Xiaomi System Search

The first place where your queries accumulate is the built-in search bar on the desktop or in the application menu. In the MIUI and HyperOS shells, this widget is often integrated with Google services or Xiaomi's own search engine. To clear this list, just click on the search bar and you will see a drop-down menu with the latest queries.

Click on the gear icon or menu (usually three dots) next to the input bar. In the window that opens, you will find the option to "Clear History" or the ability to delete individual records with a swipe or long tap. It is important to understand that this operation only affects the local list of hints on this particular device.

If you want to disable saving requests in the future, find the "Save History" or "Personalized Recommendations" switch in the search settings and put it in an inactive position, which will prevent the accumulation of new entries in the system widget.

• 🔍 Click on the search bar on the home screen to activate.
• ⚙️ Open the widget settings through the gear icon.
• 🗑️ Select the “Clear History” option to delete all records.
• 🚫 Turn off history saving to stop data collection.

Clearing History in Google Chrome

Since Google Chrome is the standard browser on most Redmi models, this is where most of the data about the sites visited is stored. To access history management, launch your browser and click on three dots in the upper right corner of the screen. In the drop-down menu, select History.

In the list that opens, you will see all the pages visited. To delete everything, click Clear History (usually at the top or bottom of the list). The system will suggest select a time range: you can delete data for the last hour, day, week or all of the time.

Note the additional checkmarks in the clearing menu. In addition to browsing history, you can delete cookies, cached images and site data. Deleting cookies will cause you to have to log in again on most sites. Be prepared to re-enter passwords after this procedure.

There is also an Incognito mode that allows you to open pages without saving them in history. To enter this mode, click three dots and select New Incognito tab. In this mode, the browser will not save history, cookies or form data, but your actions can still be visible to the ISP.

Managing a History in the YouTube App

YouTube is part of the Google ecosystem and is closely linked to your account. The browsing and search history of the app is synchronized across all the devices you sign in. To clear your search queries, open the app, click on the magnifying icon in the top right corner.

Under the search bar, you'll see a list of recent queries, and you can delete individual items by clicking on the cross next to them, or you can clear the entire list at once. To do this, click All or the shopping cart icon, and then confirm the "Clear Search History" action.

⚠️ Warning: Clearing your search history in the YouTube app may affect recommendation algorithms, the system will stop offering you videos based on previously entered queries, which will temporarily change the feed "Main".

It's also worth checking your browsing history, which is in the Library (or "You") -> History section, where you can delete your browsing videos in a similar way, which is useful if you've watched a video that you don't want to show in your overall acca-unt statistics.

• 📺 Open the YouTube app on your Redmi.
• 🔍 Click on the search icon to display the latest queries.
• 🧹 Use the “All” button or basket for mass cleaning.
• 📂 Check the Library section to delete your browsing history.

Data resetting of Google and Voice Assistant

Google’s app (not to be confused with Chrome) is responsible for voice search, Google Assistant and desktop search widgets, stored as cache and local history, and you need to go to the system settings of your smartphone for deep cleaning.

Go to Settings → Apps → All apps. Find the Google app in the list. Click on it, then select Storage. Here you will see two main buttons: Clear cache and Manage space or Reset.

Click on "Site Management" (or "All Data") to see a detailed breakdown. Select "Clear All History" or "Reset Settings." This action will return the app to "as post-installing" status by removing personalized search data and voice commands stored on the device.

Settings → Applications → All Apps → Google → Storage → Clean all data

After this procedure, the desktop search widget can reset its settings, and the personalized news feed (Google Discover) can temporarily display less relevant content until the algorithm re-examines your preferences.

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Cleaning Google’s app cache regularly (once a month) helps free up several megabytes of memory and can speed up the search widget if it starts to slow down.

Settings of Google account activity

The most radical and effective way is to manage your history at the Google account level, where your search queries, location and videos you see are stored on the company's servers, whether you cleared them on your phone or not, and these settings are accessed using a special web interface.

Open your browser and go to myactivity.google.com. Sign in to your account. You will see a detailed timeline of all actions taken from this profile. From the menu on the left, select Delete → Delete by date range or Delete theme.

You can delete your search history, your location history, your YouTube history, and your Android device data. It's critical to understand that deleting your data here affects your cloud profile, which means that even after you reset your phone to factory settings, when you re-enter your account, your story can pull up from the cloud if it hasn't been deleted here.

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Full privacy is achieved only by a combination of local cleaning on the phone and deletion of data in the myactivity.google.com profile.

Frequent questions and problem-solving

Users often encounter nuances when working with history that are not obvious from standard instructions. Below are answers to the most common questions that arise during the data cleanup process on Xiaomi Redmi.