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How to clear cache data from Safari on Mac?

What’s the browser cache data? When you visited a website page, the browser will cache some data in the background, which will make the page load faster the next time you visit. And we can know which websites had been visited in the past by analyzing the cache data, and consider user privacy and bata security, it’s necessary to clear the cache data regularly.

By default, Safari doesn’t provide the feature to remove the Cache data, unless you access Preferences > Advanced > enable the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” checkbox. Then you can find the Develop in the Safari menu, and choose Empty Caches under the Develop menu.

empty safari caches

Where’s the Safari cache data stored? The Safari cache is stored in Users/~/Library/Cache/com.apple.Safari

safari cache data location

We can see that there is a lot of cached data in the Cache folder on the Mac. Not only the Safari browser stores the cached data, but many applications also store the cached data. How to clear those application cache data from the Mac?

We don’t suggest removing all folders under the Cache folder, it may cause some application can’t work normal on your computer. But you can remove all data inside the folder, and keep the folder. Or you can use PowerSuite to remove all cache application caches on the Mac, and it can support regular automatic cleaning of all these caches, daily, weekly or monthly.

a). Download and install PowerSuite on the Mac.

b). Run PowerSuite and select Clean up tab on the left of window, then click the Start Scan button.

clean Safari cache data with Power Suite

c). After the scan is completed, we can view the Application Caches, and we can click the setting button to view all application cache. Then click the remove button to delete.

clean Safari cache data with Power Suite

d). If we need to automatic cleaning of all these caches, select the Automatic tab on the left of window, and check the Auto clean up time frequency and select a time frequency, then select the application caches and web caches under the Cleanup objects, and you can also select other options to clear.

auto clean Safari cache data with Power Suite

 

 

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