- What are Amazon Archived Orders?
- How to Archive Your Amazon Orders
- How to View Your Amazon Archived Orders
- How to Hide Your Amazon Search History
- Create an Amazon Household Account
Let’s be real, you probably share your Amazon account with at least one other person. And if this is in fact the case, there are times when you’d rather not share what you’re purchasing with those other people. This is where Amazon archived orders comes into play.
Whether you’ve used this feature or not, it’s helpful to know how to find past archived orders, hide your browsing history, or unarchive past purchases.
What are Amazon Archived Orders?
Archived orders are those that you don’t want to see on your account. You may want to do this for a number of reasons such as:
- If you’re hiding a secret gift from someone who also shares your account
- If you purchased an item that you’d rather others not see
- If you’re a business owner and want to hide any orders that you’ve already processed
Since Amazon doesn’t do this automatically, you’ll need to manually move them if you want to hide them. Although archiving orders hides them, it doesn’t delete the information and it isn’t permanent. You can still unarchive them if you choose to later.
How to Archive Your Amazon Orders
Archiving your orders is simple and straight forward. The first thing you’ll want to do is sign into your account and go to the homepage, then follow the below steps:
- In the upper right-hand corner, click Returns & Orders
- Scroll through your orders and select the one you’d like to archive
- Click on View Order Details next to the order
- Click Archive Order
- Click Archive Order again to confirm
How to View Your Amazon Archived Orders
Once archived, you can still view your orders, they won’t be gone forever—even if you deactivate your Amazon account.
To access your Amazon archived orders:
- Log into your Amazon account
- In the top right corner, hover over the Accounts & Lists dropdown
- From the dropdown menu, select Account
- Click Archived Orders on the bottom right
- Click on View Order Details on the top right
- Click Unarchive Order
View Your Archived Orders on the Mobile App
You can't archive an order on Amazon’s mobile app, but you can view them. Here's how:
- Open the Amazon app and login (if needed)
- Tap the three-line icon on the bottom of your screen to open the menu
- Select Orders
- Tap the Filter option and select Archived Orders
How to Hide Your Amazon Search History
Even if your orders are archived on Amazon, you may still be able to see your search history—which means so can anyone else who shares your account. To avoid this, you can easily hide your Amazon search history in a few simple steps.
You can't delete orders you've made and can't hide them from your archive, but you can hide them from your browsing history. Here's how:
- Go to Amazon on your computer and log in to your account
- Go to Recently viewed or Pick up where you left off
- Click on View your browsing history
- Click Manage history
- There are three ways to clear your history
After this, the item(s) will say Removed over it, the section will be grayed out, and will disappear once you refresh the page.
Create an Amazon Household Account
One way to avoid other users from seeing your purchases and search history is to create separate users accounts under the same Amazon account.
When you do this, each person will have their own login and password and others will only be able to see their history if they are logged into that exact account.
Amazon Household allows you to connect and share Amazon benefits with up to two adults as well as up to four teens and four children.
- Adults (18 and up)
- Teens (13-17 years old)
- Children (12 and under)
If you’re a Prime member, your family members can also access the same free benefits as you, including:
- Prime Delivery
- Prime Video
- Prime Reading
- Amazon Photos and album sharing
- Amazon First Reads
- Unlimited listening on Audible Channels
- Early access to Amazon Lightning Deals
How to Add Other Users to Your Amazon Account
To add an adult, teen, or child to your Amazon Household:
- Go to Amazon Household
- Under Create your Household now, select Add Adult/Teen/Child
- There are two ways to add them:
- Enter the name and email address of the person you'd like to invite, then hit Continue. They will have 14 days to accept.
- Select Sign up together on this device and follow the instructions on your screen.
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