There needs to be an option to delete/clear search history!
There is no way to delete/clear search history in Outlook.com!!!!!! This is crazy! This is a basic necessity!
Will R
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Thank you for all of the great feedback, and for using outlook.com! I just wanted to let you know that everyone should be able to clear their search history now.
To do this follow these steps
1) Click the Gear/Cog in the top right hand corner
2) Click Full Settings at the bottom of the Quick Setting Pane
3) Select General in the left
4) Select Export
From here you can delete your search history, export it if you want a copy, or request an export of your mailbox.
Hope this helps!
David Los
49 comments
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daniele.delpiero
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The proposed solution does not work. We need to develop it and insert it in an outlook update. It is very serious that I cannot delete an email address found in searches. Hope you solve it soon. Thank you
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Asma
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yes I too voice my concern that the email id owner should have the rights to delete the search history. There are times when one does not want to see names and email addresses of certain people. In this regard, i must say Hotmail and outlook have not really kept up with times.
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Daniel
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Both search history and suggested/recent contacts should be clearable, right now I have both with spam e-mail addresses, I wanted to clear it and I have no options...
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Sam
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This "fix" does not work for the search bar. Still if you type the first letter or letters of previous searches, they come up as suggestions. These suggestions should also be removable.
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Can
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David Los, that doesn't helped. It wont work.
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[Deleted User]
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Selecting delete history does delete the automatic drop down suggestions shown when double clicking the search bar; however if you type the first letter of previous searches, they still come up as suggestions. These suggestions should also be removed, too.
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Ruediger
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Outlook.com Moderator (Customer Support Agent, Outlook.com)responded · May 25, 2018 - This is not working neither for the webview nor for the client. Still all old searches popup, when I start typing. So its not completed.
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framonrod
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How to delete the search history?
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Anonymous
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Yeah, just updated to outlook 2016, everything else is nice, but this one thing makes it a nightmare compared to previous versions.
I work with tickets that are all 8 digits long I know how a giant list of searches for these ticket numbers that constantly pop up over and over that have nothing to do with what I want to search and it COVERS my inbox. You have to constantly be clicking around outlook to search and remove the search history so that you can see the results.
How is not an option to disable this function????? -
Anonymous
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Would like to be able to delete all results from Calendar search at once as with Desktop version
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..
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I would like to pause search history, it's distracting to receive irrelevant suggestions that happen to share letters with what I'm looking for; I search, set redirect rules and file, making this particularly pointless for me, but it's distracting even in general. I would like the option to stop recording search history and offering suggestions.
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Anonymous
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Delete search history no effect
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Anonymous
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searching history
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tbird23_7
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delete previous searches from search drop downbar
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Neal
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Clearing search history in the within the web-mail isn't working!
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Luolei Zhang
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I tried the delete histroy search in option, but no useful, the history search is still shown.
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Luolei Zhang
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The search record can't be deleted.
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Anonymous
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how to delete searches in the inbox
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Anonymous
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I need your help to develop an option to erase search history that as user I make / Necesito su ayuda para desarrollar una opcion para borrar el historial de busqueda que como usuario hago.
Thank you / Gracias
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rcalifornia
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Is there a way to remove the search history in Outlook.com Mail?
