Watch Out, Shoppers: You Can't Hide Your Amazon Orders Anymore - But There's A Workaround

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• You tin nary longer archive aliases hide orders from your Amazon history.
• Amazon recommends mounting up Family accounts instead.
• Previously archived orders now show successful your main history.
  

If you scheme connected doing immoderate vacation shopping successful adjacent week's Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon has softly made a alteration you should cognize astir -- you tin nary longer archive, hide, aliases delete items from your bid history.

I recovered this retired for myself erstwhile I went to hide a coming bid from my Amazon history since my woman and I stock an account. This isn't a characteristic I utilized often, but for years astir birthdays, our anniversary, aliases particularly Christmas, I'd region a acquisition conscionable truthful personification other wouldn't accidentally spot it.

When I tried to hide a acquisition past week, nan action wasn't there.

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After doing immoderate research, I recovered retired nan expertise to archive an Amazon acquisition nary longer exists. I saw a reply from an Amazon representative saying nan characteristic was gone successful March of this year, and a Reddit station wherever Amazon reportedly said archived orders would commencement appearing successful your main history arsenic of Aug. 19, 2025, truthful it appears this alteration happened past spring. 

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I didn't spot immoderate charismatic announcement, but I saw post aft post aft post from amazed users complaining astir nan absence of nan feature. Since you can't officially archive orders, what tin you do to debar ruined surprises?

How to hide Amazon orders without archive

It's not clear why Amazon went this route. I've reached retired to inquire why nan characteristic went distant aliases to spot if they urge an alternative. In charismatic responses I've seen to customers, nan institution says to set up Amazon Family to nexus accounts if you want to support abstracted bid histories. 

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To do this, you'll request to person each personification group up their ain Amazon relationship and past adhd those to nan main Prime subscription.

Amazon Family, nan company explains, lets you stock Prime benefits pinch personification who lives successful your house. The biggest quality is that each personnel has their ain relationship and their ain bid history, truthful surprises enactment hidden. 

If you spell pinch this method, though, it intends 1 personification won't beryllium capable to support an oculus connected everyone's purchases. Of course, it besides intends Amazon gets a awesome woody much user-specific data.