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Add an option to disable the storing of search history in the Wikipedia iOS app
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
I don't want to see all the things that I have searched up in the past when using the wikipedia app. I only want my article history saved.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
I search really random things on wikipedia, so it feels weird to come back to the app to see last nights searches. Especially how they are incomplete and not autocompleted after selecting a page.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
This would be a very large privacy enhancement that would allow users who don't wish for others to see their searches to be able to do that. In another wikipedia reader I use, V for wiki. It never stores your history in the first place, which I really like.

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This would not be a real privacy enhancement. If you really wanted privacy, then you don't let people watch your screen or your keyboard, basically.

This ticket is a duplicate of either T200267 or T163761.