How to Delete Cookies in Chrome: All Sites, One Site, or Just One Cookie

Knowing how to delete cookies in Chrome is easy. Knowing how many to delete is the part that saves you an afternoon of signing back in. Chrome lets you delete cookies for every site, for one site, for a time range, or even one single cookie, and each choice signs you out of a different amount.

This guide covers all five ways on a computer, plus Android and iPhone, and tells you which one fits which problem.

The short answer#

• Every site: Ctrl+Shift+Delete, tick Cookies and other site data, choose a time range, Delete data.
• One site: the icon left of the address, then Cookies and site data, then Manage on-device site data.
• One cookie: DevTools, then Application, then Cookies.
• Automatically: Chrome can delete site data when you close all windows.

What deleting cookies actually does#

A cookie is a small note a site saves in your browser: "this person is signed in", "their cart has two items", "they chose dark mode". MDN's guide to HTTP cookies covers the details.

Delete a site's cookies and that site forgets you. Google's help page warns that you may get signed out of sites that remember you and lose saved preferences. Your saved passwords, bookmarks and history stay, because they are stored separately.

So the real question is not how, but how much.

1. Delete cookies for every site#

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Delete on Windows, Linux or ChromeOS, or Command+Shift+Delete on a Mac. Or open the three-dot menu and choose Delete browsing data.
2. Pick a time range. "Last hour" removes only cookies set recently. "All time" removes all of them.
3. Tick Cookies and other site data. Untick anything else you want to keep.
4. Click Delete data.

Use it for: a fresh start, a shared or borrowed computer, or when many sites misbehave at once. Cost: you are signed out of every site in the range.

2. Delete cookies for one site#

This is the right tool for most problems, because usually only one site is broken.

From the site itself:

1. Open the site.
2. Click the View site information icon to the left of the address.
3. Click Cookies and site data, then Manage on-device site data.
4. Click the trash icon next to the site's entries, then Done, and reload.

From Settings: paste chrome://settings/content/all, search the site, and click Delete data.

Use it for: login loops, the wrong account, ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS, or a site you no longer use. Cost: you are signed out of that one site.

If you do this often, Cleaner, our free Chrome extension, does it in one click from the toolbar. Its Sign out & reset button clears the current site's cookies, cache and storage, reloads the page and shows how many cookies it removed. Its Fix broken page button does the opposite: it clears the cache and keeps the cookies.

3. Delete a single cookie in DevTools#

Sometimes one cookie is the problem, such as a stale session or a broken preference, and you want to keep the rest.

1. Open the site and press F12 (Command+Option+I on a Mac).
2. Go to the Application panel.
3. In the left column, expand Cookies and click the site.
4. Select the cookie and press Delete, or use the delete button in the toolbar.

Chrome's DevTools docs also show how to edit a cookie's value and filter the list. This is the most precise method and the one developers use when testing sign-in flows.

4. Delete cookies for a time range only#

If a problem started in the last hour, say after you signed in to a second account, you can delete only recent cookies:

1. Open Delete browsing data.
2. Choose Last hour or Last 24 hours.
3. Tick Cookies and other site data only.

Sites you have not visited in that window keep their cookies, so you stay signed in to most of them.

5. Delete cookies automatically#

Chrome can delete all site data, cookies included, whenever you close every window:

1. Go to Settings, then Privacy and security, then Site settings, then Additional content settings, then On-device site data.
2. Choose the option that deletes data sites saved when you close all windows.
3. Add sites you want to stay signed in to as exceptions.

This is great for privacy and a common reason people complain that Chrome logs them out every day. Our guide to auto-clearing cache and cookies when Chrome closes compares this setting with extensions that clean a site when its tab closes.

Delete cookies in Chrome on Android and iPhone#

Android

1. Tap the three-dot menu, then History, then Delete browsing data.
2. Choose a time range, tick Cookies and site data, and tap Delete data.
3. For one site: open it, tap the icon to the left of the address, and look for Cookies and site data or Site settings.

iPhone and iPad

1. Tap the three-dot menu, then Settings, then Privacy and security, then Delete browsing data.
2. Tick Cookies, site data and confirm.

Labels can shift a little between Chrome versions. Look for the nearest match.

Cookies vs cache: delete the right one#

People often delete cookies when the cache was the problem, and get signed out for nothing:

• Page looks old or broken: that is cache. Clear cache only, and stay signed in.
• Sign-in problems: that is cookies.

Our guide to the difference between cache and cookies explains how to tell them apart in under a minute.

Which one should you use?#

Most of the time, the answer is one site. It takes thirty seconds and you keep every other login.