Sharing your Amazon account with a partner, family member, or even your children has many benefits. But there may be times when you don’t want everyone in the house to see what you bought or how much you paid for it.
Fortunately, you can hide Amazon purchases and keep past orders less visible to other account users, even with the archiving function no longer available on the platform.
How to hide your orders on Amazon
So, how do you go about removing old purchases from your Amazon history?
While you might be tempted to delete Amazon order history, Amazon doesn’t allow for a permanent deletion of items that have been purchased, mainly for legal and customer-service reasons. Your best option is to share an Amazon Family account with your family, instead of letting them use your personal account.
Hide your browsing from prying eyes
Can you still archive an Amazon order?
In Spring of 2025, most customers can no longer archive orders on Amazon. Then, on August 19 of the same year, it completely removed the Archived Orders view from users’ accounts and returned previously “archived” purchases to the main order history.
Amazon has yet to publicly explain the decision, in spite of the pushback that retiring the popular feature has generated in Amazon’s community forums and subreddits.
For most users, there’s no longer an Archive Order button. However, based on region and account type, some legacy users might still be able to see the button in their accounts. So, if your Amazon account still shows the button:
- Open Amazon and click Your Orders.
- Find the purchase you want to hide.
- Select Archive Order.
- Confirm the order.
If the button is gone for good on your account, your only option is to switch to a Family Account to maintain your privacy.
Some users tried to work around the archive removal by modifying the Amazon URL and replacing the Order ID on desktop. But this was met with limited success, as Amazon can disable this option without notice.
How to find archived Amazon orders and unarchive them
All previously archived Amazon orders now appear in your account’s regular order history.
To find a specific order, search Your Orders by date, item name, or seller. If you’re in the minority of legacy accounts that still show “Archived Orders,” you might need to open that section and manually unarchive the orders for them to return to the main purchase list.
How can I hide orders in the Amazon app on a smartphone?
Even back when order archiving was available on desktop, Amazon never made the feature directly available in the Amazon app on iOS or Android. Previously, mobile users had to open the Amazon website in a browser instead of the app and view the desktop site in order to archive their purchases.
This desktop-mode workaround trick now only works if your account retains the Archive Button or if you’re attempting a URL workaround. In most cases, however, switching to desktop mode on your phone won’t restore Amazon’s archiving feature.
Can you hide your Amazon orders using Alexa?
Alexa also can’t hide orders on Amazon. But you might be able to protect your privacy by preventing Alexa from sending notifications and revealing past purchases:
- Open Alexa.
- Navigate to > More > Settings > Notifications > Amazon Shopping.
Carefully disable delivery notifications or anything related to product-name announcements.
Why you might want to hide your Amazon orders
So, why would you want to hide Amazon orders in the first place? Well, there are many good reasons.
You’re ordering something embarrassing
You can buy almost anything on Amazon, including things that many people may find embarrassing if others found out. This could include adult toys, medical items, certain reading materials, and other media.
Archiving the item stops others from browsing your order history and seeing things you don’t want them to see.
You’re ordering a gift for someone
There’s nothing worse than organizing the best birthday gift in the world for someone, only to have them look at your Amazon account and spoil the surprise.
Once you have ordered an item, you have the option to hide the order. The gift recipient will be none the wiser about what they’ll be receiving. For extra privacy, send gifts to an Amazon Locker or a local Amazon Hub Counter so you can pick it up in complete privacy.
Also, at checkout, tick the option for “Ships in Amazon packaging” whenever available to conceal the product’s original packaging.
It keeps your order history organized
Archiving is no longer a reliable way to keep your order history tidy.
For added organization, use Amazon’s built-in filters, like filtering for purchases by year or date to narrow down older purchases. You also have items categorized by delivery status, separating them from completed and active orders.
If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon, it won’t be long before you find your order history to be long and difficult to navigate. Granted, there is a search box, and you can filter by year. But if you simply want to quickly see what is due to come and what has already arrived, archiving fulfilled orders is the way to go. That way, what you see on the screen is your list of outstanding undelivered orders and nothing else.
How to hide orders on an Amazon Household Account (Amazon Family)
As of 2026, Amazon Family (formerly Amazon Household) accounts support having 2 adults and up to 4 children. As of April 7, 2025, you can no longer add new teens to an Amazon Family account, and existing teens can continue using their accounts until they turn 18.
Both adult names may appear when using the account. However, adults sharing Prime benefits must live at the same residential address.
How to create an Amazon Household
Creating an Amazon Family account makes it easier to share Prime benefits with other people in your household. It also allows parents to keep an eye on the Amazon purchases and watch history of their teens and kids as long as they’re connected to the family account.
To create your own Amazon Family account:
- Go to Amazon Family, then click Add Adult.
- This will send an invitation or a verification request to the other account.
- Click a Child to create a child’s profile.
- Review your Family Library’s sharing settings, and control the Child account’s privileges.
Amazon Family allows all account members to share the same payment options between adults.
The Family Library boxes control your Amazon shared media library and content, like books and movies. You’ll notice there’s no option for sharing or making your order history private. That’s because orders on an Amazon Family account are unique to the individual account that made the purchase.
On mobile:
- Open the browser for Amazon Shopping apps.
- Navigate to Amazon Family or Manage your Amazon Family.
- Follow the prompts to add a new adult or child.
What’s the difference between Amazon Household and Amazon Family?
Amazon Family is simply the new name for Amazon Household. Depending on your region and rollout stage, you could see either or both names used for the same family-sharing features.
Hide gift purchases from a shared Wish List
A completely separate feature from archiving, Amazon still offers a “Don’t spoil my surprises” setting for its Wish List and Registry:
- Go to Your Lists.
- Click the 3-dot menu on the list of choices.
- Click Manage List.
- Select “Don’t spoil my surprise”
Enabling this option will temporarily hide purchases on Amazon made from someone’s Wish List or registry from the account’s Order History.
How to manage your Amazon browsing history
Like a web browser, Amazon will store your history and recently viewed items. So if you’ve gone through all the trouble of deleting purchases, you might also want to clear your browsing history. Note that if you have a Household account, this is unnecessary, as every member of the Household has their own login and webpage.
How to clear your Recently Viewed on Amazon
You can delete specific items from your Amazon history or wipe the entire record clean. You can also disable the tracking that allows Amazon to build these lists and lets you search your Amazon history.
To clear the Amazon search history on your computer:
- Go to the Amazon homepage and log in.
- Hover your cursor over Accounts & Lists at the top-right of the page and click Browsing History in the drop-down.
- Click Remove from view below each item in your history that you’d like to remove.
- To remove all items, select Manage history in the top right and select Remove all items from view.
How to clear Amazon search history on your mobile device, iPhone, iPad, or Android:
- Open the Amazon app and log in.
- Tap the profile icon in the bottom menu.
- Select Your Account.
- Scroll down to Personalized Content and tap Browsing History.
- To delete individual items, tap Remove from view.
- To clear your history, tap Manage and then Remove all items from view.
- Done! All your Amazon search history is now deleted.
The Buy Again section on the homepage can also reveal past purchases.
- Go to the Buy Again tab
- Then click on the eye icon in the upper-right corner of the past purchase you wish to hide.
- Amazon will not recommend this product to you in the future.
How to turn off search history on Amazon
As mentioned above, you can also turn off your search history on Amazon. This is helpful if you constantly remove items from your browsing history. Plus, it adds a layer of privacy if you share an account.
To turn off Amazon’s search history on a laptop:
- Log in to your Amazon account and go to Browsing History.
- Select Manage history.
- Toggle the Browsing History option off.
To turn off Amazon’s search history on a mobile device:
- Open the Amazon Shopping App and log in if necessary.
- Select the profile icon in the bottom menu, then Your Account.
- Scroll down to Personalized Content and tap Browsing History.
- Tap Manage.
- Toggle the Browsing History option off.
Amazon order history and archiving FAQs
If you’re still wondering what happened to the archive Amazon order feature, here are some quick answers to common questions.
Amazon retired the feature in 2025, so the Archive button is no longer visible on the majority of user accounts.
No. Archiving an order only hides it from the purchase history.
Amazon hasn’t announced any plans to restore the Archive Order feature.
There are many reasons why you might want to hide something on your iPhone, and whether you want to hide photos or Amazon orders, you are entitled to your privacy. And that includes privacy from nosy intruders who want to know what you’re up to.
If you want to learn about other Amazon safety and privacy issues, make sure to read our articles on Amazon scams and Amazon brushing scams.
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