What is incognito mode? Is it safe to use?

Incognito mode is a private window within your regular browser — a place to surf the internet without your history being saved on your device when your browsing session ends. Cookies, which are little bits of identifying data that follow you around the internet, and other traces from your browsing history aren’t saved after you end your private browsing session.

But, it’s important to know that in an incognito session, your online activity isn’t completely hidden from websites, network administrators, or search engines. Later in this article, we’ll take a look at who can still see your online activity when you’re browsing in Incognito mode.

It uses a temporary area for cookies/cache and doesn't use your existing ones. When you close the window, the temporary area goes away too.