How do I clear my PS3 history

February 12, 2008

When you open up the browser in the Playstation 3 and press the triangle button on the controller you can see a list of options on the right side. Go to “History” and hit the “X” button you can see a list of all the sites you last visited but you may not want that. Here’s how to delete and clear the history on the PS3, press triangle again when you are in the history window and at the top you will see “Delete all” now press “X” button and a confirmation screen will appear “All history will be deleted are you sure you want to continue” go to “Yes” and press “X”. History cleared.

Also try this:

  • Open Browser
  • Press the triangle button with the controller
  • Go to “Tools” now press the right arrow or the X button
  • You should now be in Internet tools, this is where you can delete cookies, web cache and search history
  • Select one and hit the X button and follow the instructions

Another thing to keep in mind is when you type in words in a search bar or in the address bar, the PS3 remember what you typed and displays it on the right window next to the keyboard for convenience, of coarse you may not want this because other people can what you typed in. So to clear that, go to the main menu (XMB) and scroll to Settings -> System settings ->Delete predictive text dictionary, press “X” and confirm.

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Eric July 14, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Hi, and thanks for your information. The steps for slearing the search history on the PS3 don’t seem to be working for me. I went to System>System Settings>Delete Predictive Text. It asks if I am sure, and I say yes and push X to execute the command. It says that it has been deleted, but then when I go back to the search window, all of my entries are still there. I have gone back and tried to delete the predictive text again, but it says that there is no text to delete. What am I missing?

Tyler July 14, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Hey Eric, you need to clear your search history too, I showed how on the first paragraph. Predictive text and Search history are two different things. Predictive text remembers what you typed into the search bar for faster searching. Search history are all the sites you visited.

Eric July 14, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Thanks, Tyler, but I have cleared both. The items still appear on the right hand side of the screen when I open up the internet search. I have done both of the steps mentioned in the original answer. The browser has no history associated with it, but the internet search still shows all of the items I have input when conducting searches. Any other ideas?

Jay July 24, 2008 at 6:03 am

What your talking about is the “new” Internet Search tab. I’m having the same problems deleting that tabs “predictice text”. It’s probably a bug that will be worked out next software update.

Gazza August 14, 2008 at 7:10 am

Predictive text and search text are stored differently. The original bit above shows you how to delete the web history and predictive libraries bu because the search list is a web browser history and is thus independent of the predicitve library it will not be cleanly removed by that method. Try the following;

Open up the web browser and hit the green triangle on the remote, scroll to TOOLS and press the right arrow or X and you should access the internet tools section. On here you can delete cookies, the search history (ie the one that people here have asked about) and the web cache. Scroll to each of these in turn, hit X and follow the prompt to delete the appropriate entries.

It should work!

Buddy426 October 14, 2008 at 9:17 am

ur a Godsend!
thanks so much

BobbyG November 29, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Guzza’s 8/14 directions work perfect for deleting “search history!” You Rock!

jones December 7, 2008 at 12:14 am

Sweet! Now I can go back to looking at porn in peace… haha

AK December 23, 2008 at 2:18 am

Gazza, u deserve a trophy mate ;-) nice one!

Josh December 29, 2008 at 7:12 am

Gazza, you legend. What more can i say, it took me ages trying to find out how to delete the search history, and it took me 10seconds with your method, PHEW!

cheers

Ps3 Player December 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm

OMG!! man god bless you…thanks you very very much…i own you man…THANK YOU!!!

kyle January 6, 2009 at 8:25 pm

u r a diamond m8 phew didnt want me wife to no wat ive been on … lol i owe u 10000000 things man lol

Charles February 13, 2009 at 5:19 pm

I was wondering, does the history delete by itself after some time? Or does it stay permanently until you delete it yourself?
Thanks

Doug February 24, 2009 at 4:08 am

Gazza you killed it – i tried everything to get ride of the recent sites – thanks

Durzo April 8, 2009 at 11:36 am

WOOHOO NOW I CAN GET IN TROUBLE FOR ONE OF MY…not so smart…SEARCHES!!!!!!!! THANK YOU MAN!

Andrew Koller July 16, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Thanks ur a life saver Gazza tyvm

JAY July 25, 2009 at 2:24 pm

STILL HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY PS3 HISTORY , I GO TO BROWSER THEN I HIT TRIANGLE TO GO TO HISTORY AND IT SAYS DELETE ALL, THEN I CLICK YES, BUT IT DOES NOT DELETE, Predictive text Deletes though,. When i finish clicking on delete all i can still see the history, how long does it take to remove.

Jimmy August 21, 2009 at 11:07 am

Man,thanks sooooooo much.ive watched youporn a million times on this console and i couldnt get rid of the proof!!!

joss September 5, 2009 at 8:26 am

lol everyones only here because they want to get rid of all the porn lool

jade November 8, 2009 at 6:15 am

your all only on here to delete to porn web site’s you have been on your all DISGUSTING PERVERTS !!!!!! and i hope all your girlfriends find out n dump you they can probs find sum 1 better then you’s who wouldnt watch porn behind their back….YOU SICK PERVS why would you want to watch another man having sex……… oh btw thanks now i can find out what my boyfriend has been on and kick his arse out the door :-)

ray November 23, 2009 at 5:18 am

wow jade your a bitch hey im just saying

Birdman November 30, 2009 at 10:54 am

Every guy watches porn, if your guy doesn’t hes either A. Gay, or B. Really good at hiding it. Go get laid….Bitch

J-man December 4, 2009 at 12:54 am

Tyler your a hero. oh and Jade you just don’t understand. The reasons why guys watch porn is because. 1 its normal and fun. 2 if there girlfriend or wife doesn’t want to give it up that night the guys can just watch porn and rub one out. Would you rather your boyfriend or husband watch porn, or cheat on you? Well i would rather want my girlfriend watch porn than cheat on me, but then again i would never pass up a chance in the sack. :)

Frustrated Player December 9, 2009 at 7:29 am

Thanks so much! You do deserve a trophy! It totally worked. The boys have trying to update Modern Warfare for DAYS so they could play online and this process worked. You rock.

lfcman December 26, 2009 at 1:35 pm

what a hero

Old Gregg January 11, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Sweet now my redtube history is gone.

shuan_hannity January 19, 2010 at 9:02 am

Thanks Gazza. You’re a life saver!

dlastson January 20, 2010 at 11:09 pm

i believe i caught a virus on my ps3 so how do i get rid of it?

Michel February 9, 2010 at 1:05 pm

thanks allot it all worked for me…….. NICE 1 MATEYYY!!!

kevin February 11, 2010 at 5:48 pm

hey i copied and pasted something i dont really want ‘someone’ else to see but now everytime i copy or paste that previous copy is saved like on a clip board. can anyone tell me how to delete that type history

fairs April 6, 2010 at 4:50 am

gazza legend!!!!!!

Coolness April 30, 2010 at 12:33 pm

Thanks, it was just annoying to look at. And BTW: Gazza, you are cool, dude.

Habsch May 1, 2010 at 10:59 am

is that I can transfer the browsing history of the PS3 on my e-mail from my computer

piece88 May 18, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Gazza you are a legend! jade i pitty your boyfriend you psycho bitch! :)

Ben June 6, 2010 at 10:00 am

ur a legend m8 , sound 4 that

Al June 14, 2010 at 7:02 pm

hey i was wondering if there is a way to track my ps3 web browsers history from my computer?

dandi June 17, 2010 at 12:08 pm

Don’t worry Jade, the things these guys don’t know is they SUCK in bed! haha!!! That’s why your wives and girlfriends won’t screw you porn-freaks. Maybe if you would look up how to actually use your dicks and please your woman she would put out more, and maybe do some of the freaky stuff you’d like. And the girls you watch on the porns don’t really even like what they do, they get paid to pretend to like some random dude get his jolly’s. Isn’t that nice to know that even the whore doesn’t want you unless you can pay the $$$? And she still won’t like your precious little weiner! And since when do women only have the option to either let you guys look at porn or go cheat? I’d like to see half you losers tell your little girls that when their husbands are screwing around. Obviously you wanna be men don’t know what a relationship/marriage is really about. You are just a bunch of loser that suck in bed!!!! HaHaHa!!!!!

Al July 2, 2010 at 6:22 pm

I pretty much agree with this “dandi” I wanna know if I can check it onlike bc my boyfriend figured out how I knew he was watching porn and now deletes the browser history… can someone please help me?

dandi July 8, 2010 at 9:33 pm

Put a lock on the internet browser on the PS3 and get an external memory piece for your PC. Call some computer stores around where you live and they can help you block the dang porn on the PC. Once these jerks have deleted it off the PS3 there is no way to look it back up. You could put up a hidden camera but that’s going to extreme’s. But keep the internet off the PS3 if that’s the problem, and you’ll catch what he is looking at on the computer. You can put a parental block on the PS3 by going into the internet browser, it’s free for thirty days. Lol, wonder what he’d think if you blocked him at every corner? But my favorite choice would be to take a ball bat to the PS3 if I were you. Any how I hope that helped you some.

jp July 29, 2010 at 12:42 pm

20 bucks Dandi is fat

craig August 5, 2010 at 9:01 pm

yo jp i’ll raise you another 80 tht desperate-dan’s a cave troll. lol at the ‘porn blocks’ btw. theres a reason ur hombres watching porn, try offering to swallow next time. much love.

jason-T August 23, 2010 at 8:20 pm

Not all gus on here want to delete their history because they watch porn I did it so my girlfriend cant find out what I bought her for our anniversary.

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