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iOS Chrome has private browsing. There are also s number of dedicated apps for private web surfing.


iOS Chrome has "Incognito Mode*". The asterisk is there because WebKit does not have any way to make localStorage private, meaning it's shared between Incognito and Normal browsing modes, so there's a possible leak of information there, especially if they're using a third party tracking service. This is true for any of the private web surfing apps that use WebKit.


Now I'm curious—what does "Private Browsing" do when enabled in Settings > Safari?


It only clears your browsing traces locally (history, cookies, cache, etc). Everything else can still be tracked on server-side. BTW, every private browsing mode that I know works pretty much that way.

In the current model real privacy can only be achieved running something like Tor.


Onion browser on iOS professes tor based anonymity




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