Delete all of your Facebook search history at once
Your Facebook search history records everything you type into that search bar, including the profiles, groups, and Pages you visit. Facebook uses that information to customize your feed and ads, but deleting it yourself means digging through several complicated settings screens. Redact locates your entire search log and clears it all at once, fully on your own device so your information stays safe.
Free for your last 30 days of posts & comments.
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Search history
Things you've searched for on Facebook in the last year.
Why clear your Facebook search history?
Your search history often reveals more about your daily habits than the content you post. Many people clear this log and keep it empty for a few clear reasons.
It's a running record of what you look up
Every name, Page, group, and place you've searched is stored against your account. That log builds a picture of who and what you're curious about, and it sits there until you clear it.
It feeds personalization and ad targeting
Facebook uses your search history to shape the results and suggestions you see and to inform which ads reach you. Clearing the log cuts off one of the signals doing that work.
Clearing it by hand is genuinely buried
The search log lives several taps deep in your Activity Log, on a screen separate from your profile. You can delete entries one by one once you get there, but you have to find it first every time.
It refills the moment you search again
Facebook re-logs new searches immediately, so a one-time cleanup doesn't stay clean. Keeping the log empty means repeating the whole process, or letting Redact handle it on a schedule.
Wipe your entire search history, or only the searches you choose
Redact finds your Facebook search history and removes it all at once, so you don't have to hunt through menus or delete items one by one. Leave the filters blank and it wipes the whole log. Add a date range or a keyword to target exact terms, or add words you never want cleared to keep them. You can preview every entry before anything is removed, and everything processes completely on your own machine. Because Facebook logs new searches immediately, you can set up a recurring schedule to keep your history clean automatically.
- Preview before anything's cleared
- Runs on your device
- Recurring schedule
Clear everything, or only the searches you want
Leave the filters off to wipe the whole log, or narrow the cleanup down to an exact window or set of terms.
By date range
Only clear searches from a specific window of time, like everything between January 2020 and December 2024.
By keyword
Only clear searches that contain certain words or names, so a single term or person can be wiped while the rest of the log stays.
Keep certain searches
Add words or names to a preserve list and Redact skips any search that matches, no matter what other filters you set.
Preview it, clear it, or keep it clear automatically
Preview
See your whole search log before a single entry is removed, so you know exactly what's there. Best for a first pass.
Clear
Wipe every entry that matches your filters in one pass, once you're happy with what's queued.
Select and clear
Pull up the matching entries and remove them one click at a time, or batch-select the ones you want gone.
Schedule
Set a recurring cleanup so the log never fills back up. Redact reapplies your filters on your chosen interval.
How to clear your Facebook search history with Redact
Connect your account, choose how much of the log to clear, and Redact wipes the matching searches for you.
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Download Redact for free
Download for your device →Install Redact on your device. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus iOS and Android.
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Connect your Facebook account
Open Redact, choose Facebook, and link your account securely. Your credentials go straight to Facebook and never touch a Redact server.
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Choose your scope and filters
Select the Searches category. Leave the filters blank to wipe the whole log, or narrow it down first.
- Date range: clear searches from a specific window and keep the rest.
- Keywords: clear only searches that contain certain words or names.
- Preserve: add words or names you never want cleared.
Heads up: clearing your Facebook search history is a Premium feature and isn't part of the free trial. Deleting your Facebook posts and comments from the last 30 days is free.
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Preview, then confirm
Run a Preview to check the log and exclude anything you want to keep, then start the cleanup. Nothing is removed until you go ahead.
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Let Redact do the work
Redact clears each matching entry and shows progress as it goes. Keep the app running until it finishes, and turn on Schedule so new searches are cleared automatically.
Redact runs on your computer, not ours
Redact is a local-first application, so all processing happens entirely on your own device. Your Facebook credentials and search logs never touch our infrastructure. Logging in is passwordless using a secure email code, and you can disconnect the app whenever you want. The reasoning is simple. We can't leak, sell, or get subpoenaed for data we never hold in the first place.
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Frequently asked questions
It's the private log of what you've typed or tapped in the Facebook search bar, including the people, Pages, groups, posts, and places you searched for and clicked. Facebook also calls it your recent searches or search log, and it's only visible to you. Redact finds this log and clears it in bulk.
No. This clears your search history, meaning your queries and recent searches, which is a private record of what you looked up. It doesn't touch anything you published. Deleting your posts, comments, likes, and tags is a separate part of Redact's Facebook tools, so the two stay independent.
No. Clearing your Facebook search history is a Premium feature, and it isn't part of the free trial. You can still download Redact and set it up at no cost, but running the search-history cleanup itself needs Premium.
Yes. Add a date range to clear a specific window, a keyword to clear only searches that match certain words or names, or use both together. You can also add words or names to a preserve list so those searches are left alone. Leave the filters off and Redact clears the whole log.
It lives in your Activity Log and also shows up under your information and permissions in Accounts Center. It's buried several screens deep, which is part of why clearing it in bulk is easier than doing it by hand.
No. Facebook starts logging again the next time you search, so a single cleanup won't stay clean on its own. That's why you can schedule a recurring cleanup, so Redact keeps the log empty for you and you don't have to redo it by hand.
Yes. Everything runs on your own computer, so your Facebook login and your search log never reach a Redact server, and there's nothing on our end to leak, sell, or hand over under subpoena. You stay signed in with a passwordless email code and can disconnect Facebook whenever you want.
Yes. You can preview your search log before anything's cleared, so you see exactly what's there. Nothing's removed until you go ahead.