Whatever you're into, your Mac shouldn't be keeping score. Turn on Cave Mode, do what you do, turn it off. Everything's gone. History, caches, that thing you copied, all of it. Clean slate.
Open CleanMachine, tap Cave Mode. Your Mac goes into private session. Do whatever you need to do, browse, research, stream, explore. We're not watching.
Whatever it is. Completely your business. Your Mac might be judging you a little. That's why we built Cave Mode. We're not.
Tap Exit Cave Mode. CleanMachine wipes everything automatically. Browser history (all five browsers), DNS cache, clipboard, thumbnails, app state, recent files. Spotless.
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Opens a fresh browser whose profile, cache and downloads live on a RAM disk. Nothing is written to your SSD at all, so there is nothing to clean up afterwards, nothing for an hourly backup snapshot to catch, and nothing to recover. Closing it ejects the disk. That is the entire cleanup.
Arm any USB stick you already own. Pull it out and your Mac locks instantly, and wipes the session too if you ask it to. The hardware version of this idea sells for $59. Yours is already in your pocket.
When it finishes you get a receipt: what came off, what was skipped and why, and what is still on your Mac that no app can remove. Every other cleaner implies a total wipe. We show you the gaps instead.
Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium, LibreWolf. History, cookies, open tabs, site storage and cache, in every profile you have, not just the default one.
Your Mac keeps a log of every domain it looked up, separate from browser history, invisible to incognito. Cave Mode flushes it.
That last thing you copied. URL, text, image, whatever, gone. The clipboard holds one thing until it's overwritten. Cave Mode wipes it directly.
Every file you previewed with the space bar left a cached thumbnail on disk, even if the file is deleted. Gone.
macOS keeps a Recent Items list, and so does every app, and each entry records the file's full path even after the file itself is gone. Cave Mode clears the system list, every app's list, Finder's recent folders and its Go to Folder history.
macOS saves your windows so apps reopen where you left off. For Terminal, that saved state is your scrollback, and it survives deleting your shell history. Cave Mode clears it.
Your Mac keeps a database of every file you have ever downloaded, including the web address it came from and the app that fetched it. Deleting the file does not remove the entry. Almost nothing clears this. Cave Mode does.
Handoff offers whatever you copy to your iPhone and puts the page you are reading on its lock screen. For the length of the session Cave Mode turns that off, along with AirDrop discoverability, and puts both back exactly as they were when you finish.
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That is your choice. A full wipe clears cookies, so you would be signed out. Turn on Wipe only this session and it removes just what happened after you entered Cave Mode, leaving you signed in to everything you were already signed in to. You can also list sites that are never cleared either way.
Browsers only clear their own history. Cave Mode also clears the DNS cache, the clipboard, Quick Look thumbnails, the Recent Items list in macOS and in every app, saved window state including Terminal scrollback, and the download origin log that records the web address every file came from. No browser privacy mode touches any of those.
Yes, and the receipt tells you what. Time Machine takes an APFS snapshot every hour, so a file removed now can still sit inside one taken earlier, and deleting those needs an administrator password. The unified system log needs root and rebuilds immediately. If iCloud is syncing your Safari history, your other devices still have it. Your internet provider still saw the lookups. Any cleaner that promises a total wipe is glossing over this list.
A browser opened with a brand-new profile on a RAM disk that Cave Mode creates. History, cookies, cache and downloads exist only in memory, so nothing reaches your SSD and there is nothing to recover afterwards. Closing the session ejects the disk. It needs Brave, Firefox, Chrome or another Chromium browser, because Safari has no way to be launched with a throwaway profile.