How To Clear Hosted App Data In Chrome

How To Clear Hosted App Data In Chrome. In this article, you will read what is Hosted App Data and how to clear Hosted App Data in Chrome. You will see an option of clearing the hosted app data, whenever you delete the Chrome data. Many users are unaware of this thing that what are the hosted apps and what will happen if you clear the hosted app data.

What Is Hosted App Data?

The Hosted App data in Chrome is the data of downloaded apps from the Chrome Web Store. The apps that you will download from the Chrome Web Store are called Hosted Apps.

The pre-installed apps like Youtube, Google Drive, Gmail, etc also have the app data. You can check this by selecting the Apps option, on the upper left corner of the screen, when you open Chrome.

How To Clear The Chrome Hosted App Data?

You will have to use the same methods as used for deleting the Chrome history to delete the app data. Follow the steps given below:

1.Open Google Chrome.
2.Press the Ctrl + Shift + Delete keys (Chrome delete history shortcut).
3.Select the Advanced tab.
4.Locate the Hosted app data option in the list. Check the box to select it.
5.Click on the Clear data option.

6.All the app data will now get cleared with the cache and history.
7.It will take a few minutes to clear the app data. It mainly depends on how periodically you clear the data.