Enable Private Browsing on iPad & iPhone with Safari in iOS 5

Since iOS 5 you can now enable private browsing in Safari for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This allows you to browse the web without saving a record of browser history, cache, logins, searches, and whatever else would normally be visible by whoever comes across the iOS device.

Use Private Browsing in Safari on iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch

• Tap on “Settings” and then navigate to and tap on “Safari”
• Under ‘Privacy’ slide the switch next to “Private Browsing” so that it displays “ON”

You can further tweak the Safari privacy by adjusting cookie behavior in the same menu. At any point you can disable private browsing by going back to the same menu and sliding ‘ON’ to “OFF”.

If you do any online gift shopping, or a variety of other things on the web that you don’t want others to discover, this is a great feature to get used to enabling. Other than losing the convenience of saved logins and cookies, there is no harm with leaving private mode enabled all the time.