iOS Where is safari privacy mode data being stored?

[Lekro]

Hello,

Does anyone know where is the data temporarily stored when private browsing is enabled? Is it in virtual memory (RAM) or on the flash disk?

This is iOS.

Thanks!

 

[casperes1996]

Without knowing for certain, I’ll say that it works like regular Safari, so anything regular Safari would store to disk gets stored to a /tmp directory attached to the individual session and cleared on session end.

 

[Lekro]

Thanks for the answer. Just out of curiousity, what happens if Safari crashes? Does the data get cleared from that temp folder?

 

[casperes1996]

Thanks for the answer. Just out of curiousity, what happens if Safari crashes? Does the data get cleared from that temp folder?

I believe it'd stay there for a day, a week, a month something like that, but eventually would get cleaned. A reboot should do it too. - Not tested any of this, but basing it off of how a /tmp folder usually works. - What I have tested though is actually that if a page in private mode is open when your device runs out of power the same page will open next you get juice and open Safari - though that was a few iOS updates ago.