Delete your Yandex Browser data

For your convenience, Yandex Browser saves data. This can include your passwords, autofill data, search queries, or addresses of visited pages. If you want to ensure anonymity:

Before visiting a site. Use Incognito mode and follow the general recommendations for protecting your personal information.
After visiting a site. If you didn't use Incognito mode, delete the data that was saved in Yandex Browser. But it may not be effective, because a hacker might steal it during your visit.

You have access to your computer

Alert

First make sure that the information you need, like passwords, will not be deleted.

If syncing is enabled, the data you delete from your computer will be deleted from all your devices during the next sync.

Click → History → Clear history or press Ctrl + Shift + Del (on Windows) or Shift + ⌘ + Backspace (on macOS).
Select the period to delete the data.

Select the data types you want to delete.

Data available for deletion

Data type	Comments
Views	Addresses of web pages you have visited and all IP addresses associated with these pages.
Downloads	List of files you downloaded in Yandex Browser. The files remain on your computer.
Autofill form data	Autofill data you entered in web forms, including personal data and bank card numbers.
Cached files	Web page elements that the browser saved in the cache in order to load them faster on your next visit.
Cookies and other website data and plugins	Cookies saved on your computer. Storage types supported by HTML5, for example, application cache, web storage, SQL databases, and data in indexed DBs. Any client information saved by plugins that use the NPAPI ClearSiteData API.
Content settings	The website permissions you've set.
Application data	Metadata of extension stores and web apps.

Note

Yandex Browser extensions can store data on your computer or in Yandex ID. To erase this information, delete the extension.
Go to the settings to delete handling rules for website elements (pop-up windows, microphone access, and so on) and exceptions for specific websites.

Click Clear.

You don't have access to your computer

If you have lost your laptop or left your computer behind at your previous place of work, you can still delete Yandex Browser data from it. It is possible if the computer you don't have access to is connected to the internet, Yandex Browser is open on it, and syncing is enabled in the browser.

To delete data on the computer you don't have access to while saving it in your Yandex Browser:

On your computer, log in to Yandex Browser with Yandex ID and enable syncing.
Copy your profile data.
Delete data in Yandex Browser.
Wait for the data to sync with the server.
Disable syncing for the computer you don't have access to.
Restore your profile data.
Pass the recovered data over to other devices.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Open Yandex Browser and enable syncing.

Open Yandex Browser on your computer and log in with Yandex ID.

If syncing is not enabled, enable it:

Нажмите → Настройки → Общие настройки → Синхронизация → Настройки синхронизации.
Click Enable.
Log in with your Yandex ID. Syncing will start.
Select the data you want to sync.
Wait for the data to sync. It may take up to 20 minutes, depending on the internet speed and the amount of data.

2. Copy your profile data.

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11

Linux

macOS

Создайте мастер-пароль, если он еще не создан.
Export passwords via a file.
Close Yandex Browser by clicking → Advanced → Close Yandex Browser or pressing Ctrl + Shift + Q.
In Explorer, open the C:\Users\Your account name\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default folder with your profile and copy it to a different folder on your computer. The AppData folder is hidden. To see it, enable hidden folder display.

Note

If you use multiple profiles in Yandex Browser, copy the Profile <number> of the profile you need.

Создайте мастер-пароль, если он еще не создан.
Export passwords via a file.
Close Yandex Browser by clicking → Advanced → Close Yandex Browser.
Go to the ~/.config/yandex-browser/ folder with your personal profile. Copy it to a different folder on your computer.

Создайте мастер-пароль, если он еще не создан.
Export passwords via a file.
Закройте Браузер: нажмите Yandex → Выйти или клавиши ⌘ + Q.
Open Finder and go to the ~/Library/Application Support/Yandex/YandexBrowser/Default folder with your personal profile. Copy it to a different folder on your computer.

3. Delete the data from Yandex Browser.

Open Yandex Browser and delete the data:

Passwords

Нажмите → Пароли и личные данные.
Если вы создали мастер-пароль, введите его для доступа к хранилищу.
Click Site to select all sites in the list.
Внизу страницы нажмите Удалить.

Bookmarks and bookmark folders

Нажмите → Закладки → Менеджер закладок.
Select a bookmark and click Ctrl + A to select all bookmarks.
Внизу страницы нажмите Удалить.

History, downloads, autofill data

Click → History → Clear history or press Ctrl + Shift + Del (on Windows) or Shift + ⌘ + Backspace (on macOS).
In the drop-down list, select The beginning of time.
Select Views, Downloads, Autofill form data.
Click Clear.

Extensions

Нажмите → Расширения.
In the From other sources section, select the extension and click Delete.

Bank card numbers

Нажмите → Пароли и личные данные.
Если вы создали мастер-пароль, введите его для доступа к хранилищу.
Open Bank cards.
To delete a card, hover the mouse cursor over it and click Delete.

4. Make sure that the data on the computer you don't have access to is deleted.

Go to the Account page.
Select Security from the menu on the left.
Under Devices, click Device list.
In the list, find Yandex Browser on the device from which you want to delete data.
Check the date and time in the Last entry field. As soon as the data deletion is synced with Yandex Browser on the device you don't have access to, the information will be updated. Syncing may take up to 40 minutes, depending on the internet speed and the amount of data.

5. Disconnect the unavailable device from syncing.

In the same window, click Disconnect device under the device name. Syncing with your account will be disabled for the computer you don't have access to.

6. Restore the copied data in Yandex Browser.