How to hide and amazon order?

Maybe you’re trying to hide Christmas presents from snooping kids, or perhaps you don’t want your wife to see her anniversary gift. Whatever the case may be, you can indeed hide orders on Amazon. Amazon doesn’t call it “hiding” orders, which at first glance makes the whole scenario a little confusing. So with that it mind, here’s exactly how you go about hiding purchases on Amazon from nosy family members.

Not sure why Amazon makes this so difficult, but they kinda do.

The only way to “hide” an order is to “archive” it. On your “Orders” page, you’ll see the “Archive order” button next to each item that you purchased.

Just click on that button and the item will disappear from your orders page and go to your “Archived orders” page.

Be aware that Amazon limits you to 100 orders that can be archived at one time.

So if you’re close to your limit. just start clicking on the “Unarchive Order” button on old purchases to free up some room.

Also, when using the Amazon app, the archived orders page is impossible to find. You can (currently) only seem to access it on a desktop or laptop.

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The “Archived orders” page can be a little tricky to find too. But you’ll definitely want to know where it is so you can track your purchase or request a return.

To find it, you’ll want to click on the “Your Account” link on Amazon.

This takes you to a LONG laundry list of information and links. You’ll want to scroll down to the “Ordering and shopping preferences” section.

This is where you’ll find the “Archived orders” link. (See screenshot above)

Simply click on it and you’ll be taken to all of your archived purchases on Amazon.

If you don’t want to worry about archiving orders moving forward, there’s another smart solution.

Amazon Prime members can actually create separate accounts for up to 2 adults and 4 kids.

The cool part is that each account will get all the benefits of Amazon Prime.

The only requirement is everyone must have the same physical mailing address.

Simply visit Amazon Household and create your personalized household right now.

If you share an Amazon account with your partner—or let other people use your Prime login—you might occasionally want to hide an order from your history. That way, you won’t spoil the surprise of a birthday gift, or your kids won’t see something they shouldn’t when shopping for school supplies. Here’s how to do it.

Log in to Amazon and click Returns & Orders in the top-right corner.

This will show you a list of all the things you’ve ordered in the past three months. Scroll through the list until you find the order that you want to hide and click “View Order Details.” If you don’t see it, use the search bar to find it.

For the item that you want to hide, click “Archive Order.”

Then, click “Archive Order” again. Everything you ordered at the same time will also be archived.

Now, when someone looks at the list of your orders, it won’t appear. It is still accessible, however, in the order archive.

You can access it on Amazon’s Archived Orders page. To find it on Amazon’s website, go to Accounts & Lists > Account. Click the “Archived Orders” button found on the Your Account page.

Archiving orders to a little-known section of the user interface isn’t a great solution, to be honest. Sure, it works, but someone who’s curious could still easily find the order details. Instead, if you have Amazon Prime, there’s a much better solution: Amazon Household.

Amazon Household lets you share your Prime benefits and digital content with another adult and up to four teens and children. This means that both you and your partner can have your own Amazon accounts, order each other whatever secret gifts you like, and get the same free delivery options—without paying for a second Prime account. No more account-sharing is needed.

It also means that you can set your teenage kids up with their own Amazon accounts so that they can order things with your approval, but they won’t be able to pry through your order 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.

• Launch the Amazon app and sign in to your account.
• Find “Your Orders” and select the product you want to hide.
• Tap “View Order Details” and press “Archive Order”