How to Hide or Delete your Amazon Orders History

by john smith manager

You may have seen, when you search for a thing to purchase, such as shoes or bags, every website on your device starts showing the advertisement for the same. It means someone sees your activities. This feature could be helpful in finding the perfect product for you. But, it may also ruin your plans by displaying your activities, such as a surprise that you’re giving to someone in the family. Amazon records your entire activities, searches, browsing, purchasing, and the more. All these activities can be easily seen by others using the Amazon account. They can view what you’ve browsed for, saved in your cart, purchased. Therefore, sometimes you may want to hide or delete your Amazon Order history, here is the thing you’re searching for.

How to hide or delete order history from Amazon Household account

Amazon Household feature is only for the Prime members. It allows the users to share prime accounts benefits with the other members of their house at no additional costs. You can create and add an adult, teen, or a child in your household. In a household account, you can add up to ten members, two adults, four teens, and four children. Amazon Household account enables the users to keep their purchases, lists, and recommendations separate and secret from kids and teens. However, the adults can still share some benefits and contents with the Family Library. Using a household account is the simplest way to keep your Amazon order or purchases history hide.

How to hide or delete order history in Non-Prime Amazon account

If you aren’t an Amazon Prime member, no worries, you also have some options to keep your Amazon account activity private. These options won’t delete your order history completely but will hide them, so that no one can see your activities easily.

Archive your Amazon orders to hide:

Archiving orders is the best as well as a proper way to hide the Amazon orders. This will remove your order from the default order page and hide them without deleting completely. Archiving orders is simple, and if someone also has good knowledge about this feature, then he/she can see your archived orders too. Follow the below steps to hide your Amazon orders by archiving them.

1. Visit Amazon’s website with a browser.

2. Login in with the Amazon account from which you want to hide the orders.

3. Next, go to the orders page by simply clicking on ‘Orders’ in the menu bar. It is on the right side of the menu bar.

4. Scroll down on the orders page and look for the order or item(s) you want to archive.

5. When you find it, click on the ‘Archive Order’ option of that item.

6. A popup box will appear on the screen asking you to confirm archiving the order, confirm it.

7. Click the ‘Archive Order’ option of all the items you want to hide from the orders page.

All your archived orders will be immediately gone from the default orders page. And, won’t display again there until you don’t Unarchive them.

How to view and Unarchive Amazon orders

If you want to see the orders you’ve archived for viewing their details or restore (Unarchive) them, then go with the below steps.

1. Click on ‘Your Account.’

2. And select ‘View.’

3. Then click on ‘Archived Orders.’

Your archived or hidden Amazon orders are on your screen. Click on ‘Unarchive Order’ option to unhide item. Once you unarchive an item, it will restore to the default order history page.

Peter Rose is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

source: Amazon Orders History