How to Refresh a Page

This wikiHow teaches you how to refresh a page in your browser. Refreshing a page will cause it to update with the latest version of that page's information; you can also fix some site errors, such as the ones encountered when a page...

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Refreshing on Desktop

Open the page you want to refresh. Go to the web address of the page page (or click the tab for the page) that you want to refresh.

Click the "Refresh" icon. It's a circular arrow-shaped icon at the top of the browser window, typically found in the upper-left side.

Use a keyboard shortcut. In virtually all browsers, pressing the F5 key will cause the current page to refresh (on some Windows computers, you may have to hold down Fn while pressing F5). If you can't find the F5 key, there are other operating system-specific shortcuts you can use:

Windows — Hold down Ctrl and press R.

Mac — Hold down ⌘ Command and press R.

Force-refresh your web page. Force-refreshing a page will clear that page's cache, allowing you to see the most recent version of the page as opposed to any information your browser saved in the past:[1]

Windows — Press Ctrl+F5. If that doesn't work, hold down Ctrl and click the "Refresh" icon.

Mac — Press ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+R. In Safari, you can also hold ⇧ Shift and click the "Refresh" icon.

Troubleshoot a page which won't refresh. If clicking the "Refresh" icon, using the "Refresh" shortcut, and attempting to force-refresh the page didn't do anything, your browser may be corrupted or encountering an error. You can fix most browser problems by doing one of the following (if one step doesn't work, try the next one):

Close and re-open the page.

Exit your browser, then re-open it and go back to the page.

Update your browser.

Clear your browser's cache.

Clear your computer's DNS cache.

Kareem Winters

Update 24 March 2020

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