If you share an Amazon account with your spouse or allow others to use your Prime login, you may wish to conceal an order from your history from time to time. That way, you won’t ruin a birthday gift’s surprise, and your kids won’t see something they shouldn’t when shopping for school supplies. Here’s how to go about it.
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Log in to Amazon and, in the top-right corner, click Returns & Orders.
This will provide a list of everything you’ve ordered in the last three months. Scroll down the list until you locate the order you wish to hide and click “View Order Details.” If you don’t see it, search for it using the search field.
Click “Archive Order” for the item you wish to conceal.
Then, click “Archive Order” one more. Everything you purchased at the same time will be archived as well.
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It will no longer display when someone looks at the list of your orders. However, it is still available in the order archive.
It’s available on Amazon’s Archived Orders page. Go to Accounts & Lists > Account on Amazon’s website to find it. On the Your Account page, click the “Archived Orders” option.
To be honest, archiving orders to a little-known part of the user interface isn’t a fantastic option. Sure, it works, but anyone who is interested may readily uncover the order data. Instead, if you have Amazon Prime, there is a far superior option: Amazon Household.
Amazon Household allows you to share your Prime benefits and digital content with up to four other adults, teenagers, or children. This means you and your spouse can both have your own Amazon accounts, purchase each other whatever hidden gifts you like, and enjoy the same free delivery options—all without having to pay for a second Prime membership. Account sharing is no longer required.
It also means that you can set up your adolescent children’s Amazon accounts so they can purchase stuff with your consent, but they won’t be able to look through your shopping list to see what they’re getting for Christmas.
To set up an Amazon Household, head to the Amazon Household page and follow our full walkthrough.
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