How to completely clean up the history of Yandex on Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note: 5 working ways

Why Yandex History is Cumulating and How to Delete It

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note, with its flexible MIUI system, actively interacts with Yandex services — whether it’s search, maps, browser or voice assistant Alice. Every action you take in these applications is recorded: search queries, pages visited, routes on maps and even voice commands. Over time, this story takes place in the memory of the device, slows down the browser and, most importantly, jeopardizes privacy.

On Redmi 9 Note, Yandex history is stored in three places at the same time: 1 Locally in the phone memory (app cache), 2 In the Yandex account (if you are authorized), 3 In the MI Cloud (if synchronization is enabled).

Simply removing it from your browser settings is not enough – you need to clean all levels. In this article, we will discuss the unique cleaning nuances of MIUI 12/13 that are not found on pure Android.

Important: On the Redmi 9 Note with firmware below MIUI 12.5, some menu items may differ. Check the version in Settings → About Phone → MIUI version.

Method 1: Clearing the search history in the Yandex application

The most obvious, but not always effective, method is to delete the history directly in the Yandex app. On the Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note, the algorithm works differently than on other Android devices, due to the integration with MIUI.

How to do this:

1. Open the Yandex app (the icon with the letter "I" on a red background).
2. Slip the profile icon in the upper right corner (or click). ☰ → History).
3. Select the Search tab (if you want to delete requests) or the Browser (to clean the pages visited).
4. Press three points. ⋮ In the upper right corner and select Delete History.
5. Specify the period: Last hour, Today, Yesterday or For all time.
6. Confirm removal by pressing OK.

⚠️ Note: If you are logged in to Yandex, the history will be saved in the cloud. To delete it completely, go to your account settings → History → Delete all data (see Method 3).

Make sure the app cache is cleaned (Settings → Applications → Yandex → Storage → Clear cache)

Reboot your phone to apply changes

Check if history has recovered after synchronization with the cloud

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Method 2: Delete history in Yandex browser on MIUI

The Yandex browser on the Redmi 9 Note is unusual: it can duplicate the story in the system browser MIUI (if you use it to open links), so you need to clean up in two places.

Instructions for the Yandex browser:

• 📱 Open the Yandex browser (not to be confused with the Yandex application"!).
• 🔍 Click on the icon. ⋮ (menu) → History.
• 🗑️ Choose Clear History and tick the boxes: 📝 Viewing history 🍪 Cookies and website data 🖼️ Cashed images
• ⏳ Specify the period: for complete cleaning, select All the time.
• ✅ Click Delete Data.

Check the MIUI system browser:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Find the browser (or MIUI Browser) and open its settings.
3. Select Clear Data → Clear Cache and Clear All Data (if you want to delete the history completely).

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Method 3: Completely clear history through Yandex account

If you are logged into Yandex’s Redmi 9 Note account, all your activity is synced to the cloud, even after local deletion. To erase data forever, you need to go to Yandex’s Personal Account.

Step-by-step:

1. Open any browser and go to the website passport.yandex.ru.
2. Sign in under your login.
3. Go to Account Management → History (or directly to https://passport.yandex.ru/profile/history).
4. Here you'll see the tabs: 🔍 Search - queries in Yandex; 🌐 Browser - visited pages; 📍 Maps - routes and places; 🎤 Voice assistant - Alice's teams.

Delete

All the time.

Yandex. Key.

⚠️ Note: After the history of your Yandex account is cleared, the data will be deleted from all the devices where you are logged in. If you use one account on your phone and computer, the story will disappear everywhere.

Method 4: Cleaning Yandex cache and data through MIUI settings

On the Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note, even after deleting the history, temporary files remain in the application, which take up space and can restore deleted data. To guarantee erasure, you need to clear the cache and data through system settings.

How to do this:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. In the search bar, enter Yandex and select: Yandex (main application); Yandex.Browser; Yandex.Maps (if installed).

• 🧹 Click Clear the cache;
• 🗑️ Click Clear Data (this will delete all settings and history inside the app!);
• 🔄 If necessary, click Resetting (for a full reset).

⚠️ Attention: Clearing the data will lead to the exit of the Yandex account in the application. After that, the story will cease to sync, but all saved bookmarks, passwords and settings will be reset.

Method 5: Disabling the synchronization of history with Yandex

If you don't want the story to be saved at all, you can turn off sync between Redmi 9 Note and Yandex servers, which won't delete the data you've already saved, but it will prevent it from accumulating in the future.

How to turn off synchronization:

• 📱 Open the Yandex application and go to the profile (icon in the upper right corner).
• 🔧 Press Settings. → Synchronization.
• ❌ Turn off the sliders: 🔍 History of search; 🌐 Browser history; 📍 History of the Maps; 🎤 The history of voice commands.
• 🔄 Reboot your phone to make the changes take effect.

💡 If you use Yandex.Maps, but do not want to save the history of routes, open the application, go to Profile → Settings → Privacy and disable Location History. This won't delete old data, but new ones won't be recorded.

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On the Redmi 9 Note with MIUI 13, you can limit Yandex’s background activity: go to Settings → Applications → Application Management → Yandex → Battery → Limit background activity. This will reduce traffic consumption and prevent automatic history synchronization.

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Clearing up history is only part of the solution. The Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note has built-in data protection tools that are worth configuring:

1. Turn off personalized advertising in MIUI:

• Go to Settings → Google → Advertising.
• Turn off personalized advertising.
• Reset the Advertising Identifier (button at the bottom of the screen).

2. Limit Yandex’s access to the location:

• In Settings → Privacy → Application permissions → Location.
• Find Yandex and Yandex.Maps, choose to Disallow or Only during use.

3. Use a VPN to search anonymously:

• Install. VPN-Application (e.g. ProtonVPN or Windscribe).
• Turn it on before using Yandex - it hides yours IP-address.

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Redmi 9 Note with MIUI 12.5+ has a hidden feature called Incognito Mode for system applications. To activate it, hold the Yandex.Browser icon on the home screen → select Incognito. In this mode, history is not stored either locally or in the cloud.

Frequent Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Note users often face problems when cleaning up Yandex history. Here are the most common mistakes and their solutions:

1.The history is restored after removal

Reason: synchronization with Yandex account is enabled, Solution: disable synchronization (see Method 5) or delete the history through the Personal Account.

2. History is not deleted in the Yandex browser

Reason: browser cache is blocked by MIUI. Solution: clear browser data through Settings → Applications (see Method 4).

3.After cleaning, Yandex asks to re-enter the account

It's normal to erase the authorization tokens when you clean the app data. Just log in again.

4.I can not find the section "History" in the Yandex appendix

Update the app to the latest version in Google Play or MIUI App Store. In older versions, the interface may be different.

⚠️ Note: If you use Yandex.Mail on Redmi 9 Note, clearing the history does not affect letters and attachments. To delete them, open the Yandex.Mail application → Settings → Memory management → Clear the cache.

FAQ: Answers to Frequent Questions