How to completely clear the search history of Yandex on the Xiaomi phone: all the ways

Why it is important to regularly clean up search history in Yandex

Every query you type into Yandex’s search bar is stored in your account history. On Xiaomi smartphones (including Redmi, POCO, and Black Shark models), this information can accumulate for years — even if you’ve long forgotten about old queries. The problem isn’t just privacy: an overloaded history slows down your browser, and autocomplete begins to offer irrelevant options.

In 2026, Yandex is syncing the history between devices through an account, so deleting the records on your phone doesn’t always mean they disappear from the servers. For example, if you’re signed into the same account on the Xiaomi 13 Ultra and a laptop, the story will be shared, which creates additional risks when you lose a device or sell it, so the new owner can access your search preferences.

Another trap: Yandex's MIUI cache often takes hundreds of megabytes, and even after manually clearing the history, the residual data can be stored in system files, and we'll figure out how to delete everything from single queries to a complete reset of search activity.

Method 1: Clearing the history directly in Yandex.Browser

The fastest method is to use built-in browser tools, which is suitable for Yandex.Browser versions 22.0 and later (relevant to MIUI 13/14). Importantly, this method deletes the history only on the current device, without affecting data in the cloud.

Instructions:

1. Open Yandex.Browser on your Xiaomi.
2. Slip on the menu icon (three horizontal lines in the lower right corner).
3. Choose a History. → Delete the data.
4. Check the boxes: 📝 Search and browsing history (main point) 🍪 Cookies and site data (optional if you need to reset authorization) 🗑️ Cached images (free up to 500 MB of memory)

Delete the data

Make sure you are not logged into someone else’s Yandex account|Save important bookmarks in the cloud|Close all tabs with unfinished forms (banks, mail)|Remember that history will be gone forever.-->

⚠️ Note: If you use Incognito mode in your browser, the search history is not stored in it initially. But! Xiaomi can keep a separate log of activity through Settings. → Security → Application log - it is also worth checking (about this in Method 4).

Method 2: Delete history through the Yandex application (search and services)

Many Xiaomi users confuse Yandex.Browser and Yandex app** (with the icon of the red cube), the latter is responsible for search queries outside the browser — for example, through a widget on the home screen or voice search, where the story is stored separately and requires a different cleaning procedure.

How to delete:

1. Open the Yandex app** (not the browser!).
2. Slip on the profile avatar in the upper right corner.
3. Select Settings → Search History.
4. Click Delete History and select a period: 🕒 Last hour (if you need to remove only fresh requests) 📅 All the time (full cleaning)

Confirm the action by SMS or password (if two-factor authorization is enabled).

🔍 It is important for owners of Xiaomi with MIUI 14: If the story still shows after cleaning, check the sync settings in your Yandex account. → Synchronization → Search history and disable the option “Save history»**.

Once a week | Once a month | Only when memory runs out | Never cleaned(a) | I don't know how to do it-->

Method 3: Complete reset via Yandex.Account settings (for all devices)

If you want to remove history from all devices, including Xiaomi, laptop and tablet, you will need to clean up through the Yandex.Passport web interface.

• 🔍 All search queries for the entire period
• 📍 Geolocation history (if included)
• 🎤 Voice commands for Alice

Step-by-step:

1. Open your browser on Xiaomi and go to passport.yandex.ru/profile.
2. Sign in under your account.
3. Select the Search History section in the menu on the left.
4. Click Delete History and confirm the action.
5. For a complete cleanup, go to Privacy Settings → Personal Data → Delete.

⚠️ Note: After a complete reset via Yandex.Passport, it will be impossible to restore the history, and this action will log you off on all devices, including Xiaomi, where this account is used. MIUI 14 and Android 13+ After reset, you may need to re-authorize in the applications Yandex.Music, Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Mail.

Method 4: Cleaning the Yandex system cache through MIUI (for experienced users)

Even after deleting your history through your browser or account, Xiaomi may still have residual files stored in folders:

• /Android/data/ru.yandex.browser/ (browser)
• /Android/data/ru.yandex.searchplugin/ (search plugin)
• /Android/data/ru.yandex.music/ (If you used search in Yandex.Music)

To remove them:

1. Connect Xiaomi to a PC or use a file manager (such as Mi File Manager).
2. Enable the display of hidden files in the manager settings.
3. Go to the internal drive → Android → data.
4. Delete the ru.yandex.* folder (root rights or adb confirmation required).

🛠️ For users with an unlocked bootloader on Xiaomi:

adb shell pm clear ru.yandex.browser


adb shell pm clear ru.yandex.searchplugin

These commands will completely reset the settings of Yandex applications, including history, cache and authorization. Use them only if other methods have not worked.

💡

If the story reappears after cleaning, check autosynchronization in Google Account. On some MIUI firmware (e.g., POCO F5), Google can restore data from a backup. Turn off the option in Settings → Accounts → Google → Synchronization → Yandex.Browser.

Additional measures: how to prevent the preservation of history in the future

To avoid manually clearing your history, set up Xiaomi to automatically delete or disable saving requests:

1. Yandex.Browser: 🔄 Go to Settings. → Confidentiality. 🗑️ Enable the option “Autoclean History on Exit»** 🕵️ Turn off “Save search history»**
2. In the annex “Yandex»: 📱 Open Profile. → Settings → History of search. 🚫 Select “Do not keep history»**

MIUI:

• 🛡️ Go to Settings. → Confidentiality → Special access → Journal of applications.
• 🔍 Disable logging for Yandex.Browser and Yandex.