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DuckDuckGo’s search engine itself “doesn’t track your searches or browsing history” . On iPhone the relevant steps therefore are twofold: clear data inside the DuckDuckGo app (tabs, local app data and...
DuckDuckGo provides many of the same core privacy protections across its mobile apps and its newer desktop offerings—blocking third‑party trackers, enforcing HTTPS, and offering a one‑tap "Fire" butto...
Google’s public position is that Gboard “doesn’t retain or send any data about your keystrokes,” except when you explicitly submit content (for example, tap the G button to search) . Independent foren...
Setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine is a short process on most major desktop and mobile browsers: use each browser’s Settings → Search (or Manage search engines) and select DuckDuckGo, or...
The DuckDuckGo Fire Button clears local browser data such as cookies, cache, and tabs from the app’s own storage when invoked, and can now be configured to also delete Duck.ai chat history (DuckDuckGo...
DuckDuckGo’s privacy features are strongest when you use its own apps and browser across mainstream desktop and mobile platforms: DuckDuckGo offers dedicated apps for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android a...
DuckDuckGo’s mobile browser centers on a one-tap privacy control called the Fire Button/Fire Window that instantly clears local browsing data and isolates sessions, plus built-in tracker and cookie bl...
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser is officially available for iOS and Android mobile devices and—per DuckDuckGo itself—also offered for macOS and Windows desktop platforms . Reporting and app repositories ...
DuckDuckGo treats queries routed through Apple and common browser integrations with a consistent privacy-first posture: it offers tracker blocking, a per-link proxy to hide IPs, and browser extensions...
Clearing cookies and site data while retaining saved passwords is fundamentally a matter of which app is doing the storing: the DuckDuckGo search service itself stores minimal setting cookies, but the...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not include a direct, current DuckDuckGo guide to verify whether the DuckDuckGo mobile app or search uses DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) on Android or iOS; most ...
Android’s design prevents background services and arbitrary apps from silently intercepting the system keyboard, but any keyboard app the user explicitly enables can record what is typed and may store...
You can monitor app network activity on Android by enabling local VPN–style monitoring such as DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection, which uses Android’s VPN permission to watch and block outbound tra...
DuckDuckGo’s public design is to avoid tracking or storing searches, but deleting what users think of as “history” depends on whether it’s the DuckDuckGo app’s local data or the browser’s saved data; ...
DuckDuckGo removed a contractual “carve‑out” that had previously prevented it from blocking some Microsoft-owned tracking scripts and, in August 2022, expanded its 3rd‑Party Tracker Loading Protection...
DuckDuckGo’s search engine minimizes server-side tracking but web data like cookies and HTML5 local storage still accumulates on the device through the browser or DuckDuckGo apps; clearing or preventi...
DuckDuckGo’s browser now includes a Sync & Backup feature that lets users privately sync bookmarks, passwords and Email Protection settings across devices with end-to-end encryption so DuckDuckGo cann...
Timestamps on file-system artifacts and network/transfer metadata plus content hashes and geolocation tags are repeatedly cited by industry and forensic practitioners as the most persuasive, actionabl...
Forensic tools can often extract deleted photos and messages from iPhones in some situations, but success depends on iPhone model, iOS version, how the data was deleted, whether backups exist, and whi...
You cannot find authoritative, up-to-date iOS 18 step‑by‑step instructions for enabling a DuckDuckGo “auto‑delete for all searches” feature in the supplied sources; available reporting describes DuckD...