Is it a bad or good idea to delete past history???

[a kennedy]

I clear history on my iMac but then on my iPad all my sign on's and passwords are all erased, and I have to individually enter them again. Why does this happen only on my iPad?? I don't lose my passwords on the iMac. Crazy. Is it even a good idea to delete previous history?? Thanks.

[LiberalArkie]

1. In preferences - General

there is an item to "Remove history items"

I have mine set for "After one day" and it seems to take care of the problem..

Note one day in human time seems to be 2 days in Apple time.

[a kennedy]

2. ok, sounds good.....but why does my iPad lose all my password???

Whenever I delete history on my iMac, the iPad erases all my passwords so that I have to re-enter them all. But on the iMac they're there and I don't have to re-enter them. Just curious. And thanks again.

[LiberalArkie]

3. They may not be erased.

Like on my Mac DU auto logs in because the password is in the keychain. But on my iPhone it doesn't auto log in. I have to press the "login" on the DU page. It will bring up the member log-in popup.
I tap the password box and the iPhone brings up the keyboard with a "AutoFill Password" beside the Done icon.

I just tap the AutoFill Password and it fills in the login and password. I touch the login icon and I am in.

This also works on website on the mac that do not populate the login and password. On the Mac, just click the KEY symbol in the password box.