If you sign in to Microsoft Edge using Microsoft Account and synced information to all your devices, the information stored on Microsoft servers can now be cleared when you use the “Reset Sync” Setting offered in the Edge browser.
Microsoft Edge Web browser allows you to sync history, passwords, favorites, and other browser data across your signed-in devices. As of now, Edge can sync the following data.
- Favorites
- Settings
- Addresses and other autofill data
- Passwords
- Extensions
- Collections
Edge allows you to quickly toggle Sync off and on with the “Turn off Sync” option in Profiles Settings.
To use this, visit Settings and more > Settings > Profiles > Sync > Turn off Sync.
If you’ve problems with Syncing data to Edge on other devices, you can fix the issue by deleting synced data in Cloud, here is how you can do that.
Note: The feature is behind a flag in Edge Canary and requires enabling it.
Enable ‘Reset Sync’ option in Microsoft Edge browser
- Visit edge://flags page
- Search for “Enable reset sync”
- Click on the dropdown arrow and select “Enabled”
- Restart the browser.
How to reset Edge Sync data
- Click on Settings and more icon
- Select Settings
- Visit Profiles > Sync,
- Scroll down to the Reset Sync section at the bottom, click on the “Reset Sync” button
- Click “Reset’.
Doing the above deletes the Edge Sync data from Microsoft servers and stops sync and signs you out of all your devices. You may need to turn on Sync for Edge again on all your devices. Rest assured, your sync data will stay safe locally, but information on the cloud will be erased.
As of now, the button isn’t functional, it literally showing “Something went wrong. Your browsing sync data couldn’t be deleted” error on hitting. Expect it to work better in the next update.
Update: The Reset Sync button in Edge is now working in Canary 88.0.676.0 or later. If you don’t uncheck “Resume sync after resetting Sync”, the Sync will be automatically turned on for you after Reset.
Recently Microsoft promised to bring History and Open tabs sync to Edge in prerelease channels. We’ll let you know when that happens.
So like Chrome and Firefox, the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) also allows clearing Sync data on Cloud. What’s your take on this new feature? Let us know in the comments below.
Editor’s Note: The post was originally published on October 2, 2020, and updated on October 20.
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