When you visit a website regularly, the browsers recognize it as a frequently visited or favorite site.
This makes the site’s icon readily available to you when you open a new tab.
It’s easy to delete these sites one at a time.

Frequently visited sites are different from Favorites.
Sites that appear under the Favorites heading are sites you marked as a favorite.
Frequently visited sites are automatically added unless you disable this function.

Open Safari on your iPhone and open a new tab.
You’ll see aFavoritesheading and aFrequently Visitedheading.
To remove a site from yourFrequently Visitedlist, tap and hold the site’s icon.

TapDeleteon the pop-up menu.
The site is removed from yourFrequently Visitedlist.
Go toSettings>Safari.
Tap theFrequently Visited Sitestoggleso that it turns from green (enabled) to white (disabled).
Repeat these steps to re-enable this functionality at any time.
Open Chrome on your iPhone and open a new tab.
Tap and hold the icon of the site you want to remove.
The site’s icon is removed from your most-visited sites.