
Again, no idea on what is causing this to happen,” the user said. While hitting the “Clear Data” button now brings the circular loading symbol, it does actually delete everything. “UPDATE: As of 5.08pm, the problem returned, somewhat.

In some, the user says the issue disappears on its own, while in others, the user states that the issue came back. One user strangely notes that the issue seems to be coming and going. This issue with Chrome’s Clear Browsing Data feature is affecting users on PCs and Macs globally. A few users also tried to check for viruses by running a full scan, but that didn’t work either. Users say they have tried uninstalling and then reinstalling Chrome, rebooting their PCs, uninstalling third-party extensions and more, but nothing seems to be working. No troubleshooting tricks seem to be working either.

Many users say they have been facing the issue with Chrome’s Clear Browsing Data feature since updating to Chrome. It just kept spinning, I canceled and closed, I can’t delete neither history nor cookies,” one user said.

“I waited almost an hour chrome to delete 1 hours history/cookies. Some say the blue circle just keeps spinning even after waiting for an hour. Users say they face the same issue even when just deleting cookies. “I have issues with resetting chrome and clearing data it take too long to reset and clear cache data and it never stops and the blue circle going around and around and never stop ,” one affected user said.
