It’s quite simple to exit incognito mode in your various web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, once you’ve done your covert surfing. We’ll demonstrate how to carry it out.
Remember that your browser will start keeping track of your surfing history as soon as you close an incognito window. However, if you like, you may manually remove that history.
“Desktop” refers to Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs in the sections below, and “mobile” refers to iPhone, iPad, and Android smartphones.
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Get Out of Incognito Mode in Chrome on Desktop
Click the “X” symbol in the top-right corner of your Chrome window to accomplish that on Windows. Your incognito window and all of its tabs will be closed.
Click the “X” (red) symbol in the top-left corner of Chrome on a Mac to end the incognito window.
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Get Out of Incognito Mode in Chrome on Mobile
Open your incognito tab first to leave Chrome’s incognito mode on mobile. Tap the number in the circled area in the tab’s top-right corner.
All of your incognito tabs will be visible. Click the three dots in Chrome’s upper-right corner to shut all of these tabs.
In the three-dots menu, tap “Close Incognito Tabs.”
And that’s it. Chrome will close all your incognito tabs.
Get Out of Incognito Mode in Firefox on Desktop
Although Firefox refers to incognito mode as “Private Mode,” the functionality is the same. You will notice the word “private mode” on your browser.
Click the “X” symbol in the top-right corner of Firefox on Windows to close a private window.
On a Mac, click the “X” (red) symbol in the top-left corner of Firefox to end a private window.
Get Out of Incognito Mode in Firefox on Mobile
It’s simple to exit private mode on the mobile version of Firefox. To achieve this, press the number in the circled area at the top of the Firefox screen.
Tap the three dots in the top-right corner of the menu that appears.
From the three-dots menu, select “Close All Tabs.”
All of your open private tabs will be closed by Firefox. Tap the mask symbol on your Firefox screen to exit private mode.
And that’s all there is to bringing Firefox out of incognito mode.
Get Out of Incognito Mode in Edge on Desktop
You will notice the name “InPrivate mode” on Microsoft Edge, which is what incognito mode is known as.
Click the blue “InPrivate” label in the top-right corner of the browser to shut an open InPrivate window on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
From the menu that opens, select “Close InPrivate Window.”
The end of that. You will exit InPrivate (incognito) mode whenever you use Edge.
Get Out of Incognito Mode in Edge on Mobile
Tap the number in a box at the bottom of the Edge screen to close all InPrivate tabs on mobile.
Then, on the screen that opens, in the lower-left corner, tap “Close All.”
All of your open InPrivate tabs will be closed by Edge.
You are prepared.
