IOS – How to clear browser cache for just one specific site in Mobile Safari

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I'm doing some testing on a mobile site in development and there are many updates and changes happening to this site. In order to test afresh and clear any JavaScript or what-not that is held in the cache on my iPhone I need to clear the site from the history.

However, i'm not too keen on wiping all my browser history as I don't want to have re-sign into every site I'm currently logged into or have cookies for. This testing could last several months and the thought of having to clear my history and sign into all my various accounts every time is not that appealing.

Is there a way to specifically clear out the history of just one domain from my history without wiping all my cache out?

I could (and do) have other browsers on my iPhone (chrome, opera – if that even counts as a browser) but as Safari is the browser the target audience will mostly use I need to keep with this one predominantly.

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I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but if you open Settings, then click on Safari, then scroll down and click on Advanced, then click on Website Data you will get a list of websites that have stored data. You can click Edit then remove the data from just the sites that you want to remove stored data from.

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