Can’t find the “Archive Order” button? Let’s see what happened to it and learn how to hide Amazon orders now that archive is gone. The smart 2026 workaround to keep your history private.
If you recently tried to hide an Amazon order and noticed that the Archive Order option is missing, you’re not imagining things. Amazon has removed this feature for many users.
And yes — it’s frustrating.
You may have purchased a gift and expected to archive it like before. You may have ordered a personal or private item and assumed you could quickly hide it. Or you may share an Amazon account with your spouse or family and are now concerned that they will see the order details, product name, or delivery notification.
In most cases, users arrive here with one urgent question:
“How do I hide this order before someone sees it?”
The short answer is that while Amazon removed the old archive option, there is a better and more reliable workaround that provides stronger privacy than archiving ever did. It works differently, but once you understand how Amazon now handles privacy, the situation becomes far less stressful.
Let’s walk through it step by step.
Why Can’t You Archive Orders on Amazon Anymore?
Amazon no longer allows users to hide or archive individual orders on shared accounts. This change applies across both the Amazon website and the mobile app, and it affects users who previously relied on the archive option to keep purchases out of view.
There is no setting you can enable to bring the archive option back. There is no hidden button buried deep in account menus, and there is no workaround inside the Amazon app that restores this feature. If you have been clicking through order details, account settings, and help pages, you have not missed anything.
Any guide that still instructs users to click “Archive Order” is using outdated information from when the feature still existed.
This change is particularly frustrating for long-time Amazon users who depended on archiving to maintain privacy in shared households. However, understanding this limitation early prevents wasted time and helps you focus on solutions that actually work today.
Important: Amazon has shifted privacy from order-level hiding to account-level separation.
The key takeaway here is simple. You can still make purchases completely private, but privacy now depends on which account places the order, not on hiding it afterward. Once you stop thinking in terms of hiding individual orders and start thinking in terms of account separation, the solution becomes much clearer.
What to Do If You Already Placed an Order on a Shared Account
If you already placed an order on a shared Amazon account and realized afterward that you cannot archive it, the goal changes. Instead of hiding the order itself, you now need to reduce the chances of someone accidentally discovering it.
In reality, most surprises are not ruined because someone intentionally browses the Orders page. They are ruined because Amazon surfaces recent purchases on the homepage, in recommendations, or through voice announcements.
Here is what you should do immediately to minimize exposure.
Remove the Item from “Buy Again”
Amazon actively promotes recent purchases in the Buy Again section, which appears prominently on both desktop and mobile. This is one of the most common ways gifts and private purchases are accidentally revealed.
On desktop, you can access this section by going to Accounts & Lists > Your Orders > Buy Again.
On the mobile app, you can tap the profile icon > Buy Again.
Once you locate the item, remove it by choosing Remove this item or Remove this recommendation. After this step, the product will no longer appear as a quick suggestion when someone else logs into the account.
Why this matters: The Buy Again section is often the first thing people see when they open Amazon.
Clear Your Browsing History
Amazon’s browsing history directly influences what appears on the homepage under sections like “Keep shopping for” or related product recommendations. If someone clicks into these areas, they may immediately see items you searched for or viewed.
On desktop, browsing history can be found under Accounts & Lists > Browsing History.
On the mobile app, it is located under Profile Icon > Your Account > Browsing History.
You can remove specific items from view or temporarily turn browsing history off altogether. Doing so stops Amazon’s algorithm from continuing to surface similar products on the homepage, reducing the chances of accidental discovery.
Key tip: Clearing browsing history also resets recommendation signals tied to that product.
Silence Alexa Shopping Announcements
If you have Echo devices in your home, Alexa can unintentionally spoil surprises by announcing item names when packages arrive.
To prevent this, open the Alexa app, then go to Settings > Notifications > Amazon Shopping. Disable item title announcements for delivery updates, including items marked as gifts.
Once this setting is adjusted, Alexa will only announce that a package has arrived, without revealing what the item is.
This step is critical if you share a home with Echo devices.
Can You Still Hide Orders on Amazon?
The most effective solution is to ensure that private orders are placed from an Amazon account that only you control.
When an order is placed from a separate account, it never appears in another person’s order history. There is nothing to hide afterward because the purchase was never visible to them in the first place.
This is now the foundation of Amazon’s privacy model. Instead of hiding orders after checkout, Amazon expects users to manage privacy by using separate accounts.
There are two proven ways to do this, depending on whether you need a long-term solution or a quick, one-time fix.
Method 1 – Use Amazon Household to Keep Orders Private
Amazon Household allows two adult Amazon accounts to share Prime benefits while keeping separate order histories. Each adult signs in with their own email address and password, and each account maintains its own list of orders.
Because the accounts are separate, purchases made by one adult are not visible to the other. There is no need to archive orders or remember to hide anything after checkout.
This approach is cleaner, safer, and far more reliable than the old archive method.
Why This Is Better Than Archive Ever Was
The old archive feature only hid orders within a single shared account. Anyone with access to that account could still find archived orders if they knew where to look.
Amazon Household works differently. Each adult has their own login, their own order history, and their own privacy. Even if someone scrolls endlessly through their own “Your Orders” page, your purchases never appear.
This is true privacy — not just hiding.
How to Set It Up (5 Minutes)
To set up Amazon Household, start by logging into your Amazon account. From there, go to Accounts & Lists > Amazon Household. Choose the option to add an adult and enter your partner’s name and email address.
The invited adult must accept the invitation. During setup, Amazon may ask you to verify that you share an address or payment method. Once the invitation is accepted and the accounts are linked, the Household is active.
From that point forward, make sure you are logged into your own account when placing private orders. There are no extra steps required, and nothing needs to be hidden later.
When You Should Use This
This method is ideal if you share Prime with your spouse or partner, regularly buy gifts, or want a permanent and stress-free solution to Amazon order privacy. For most shared households, this is the most reliable option available.
Small Warning
Amazon Household only allows two adult accounts. Additionally, if you leave a Household, Amazon requires a waiting period of 180 days before you can join another one.
Choose your Household partner carefully.
Method 2 – Create a Second Amazon Account and Use Prime Free Trial
If you need a fast solution and do not want to change your existing setup, creating a second Amazon account is the quickest option.
Every Amazon account has its own order history by default. When combined with Amazon’s 30-day Prime free trial, this method provides fast shipping and complete privacy without immediately paying for Prime.
How to Do It
Start by logging out of your current Amazon account. Then select Create a new Amazon account and use a different email address, ideally one that other household members do not have access to.
Once the account is created, activate the Prime free trial and place your private order. During checkout, you can further enhance privacy by selecting Amazon Locker or a pickup location instead of shipping the package to your home.
Because the order is tied to this separate account, it will never appear in your main account’s order history. After the purchase, you can decide whether to keep Prime or cancel it before the trial ends.
Separate account = separate history.
When This Method Is Best:
This approach works best for one-time gift purchases, surprise items, or situations where your Amazon Household adult slots are already full. It is also useful if you want privacy without making long-term changes to how your household uses Amazon.
Extra Privacy Tips You Shouldn’t Skip
Amazon sends order confirmation emails immediately after checkout. Even if you use separate Amazon accounts, email notifications remain one of the most common ways surprises get ruined.
If someone else has access to your email inbox, tablet notifications, or shared devices, they could see your order details before you even realize it.
Many surprises are spoiled by email, not by order history.
To reduce this risk, you should delete or move confirmation emails as soon as they arrive. If privacy is critical, using a separate email address specifically for private Amazon purchases is strongly recommended.
How to Change Your Email Address on Amazon
Because Amazon does not allow you to turn off transactional emails such as order confirmations, the most effective solution is to route those emails to an address your family cannot access.
On desktop, go to Accounts & Lists > Login & Security.
On the mobile app, tap the Profile icon > Your Account > Login & Security.
Next, click the Edit button next to your email address. Enter the new private email address you want to use and save the changes.
Amazon will send a One-Time Password (OTP) to the new email address. Enter the code to verify and confirm the update.
Note: This also changes your Amazon login email. From now on, you will sign in using this new private email address.
How to Manage Communication Preferences
You can further reduce the chances of accidental exposure by limiting marketing emails that may show recommendations based on your recent purchases.
Go to Your Account > Communication Preferences (under Email alerts, messages, and ads). Under Promotional Emails, click the arrow to expand the section. Select “Do not send me any marketing email for now”, then click Update.
This prevents Amazon from sending promotional emails that might hint at your recent or private purchases.
What You Can’t Do Anymore on Amazon
When it comes to order privacy on Amazon, there are several actions that users commonly wish they could take — but as of 2025–2026, Amazon no longer allows them. These limitations are important to understand so you don’t waste time trying fixes that don’t exist, and so you can focus on what actually works for privacy.
Here’s what you cannot do anymore on Amazon:
You cannot archive individual orders just to hide them.
As part of Amazon’s privacy and account-sharing policy updates, the traditional Archive Order button and archived orders view have been removed for many users. Orders that were previously archived are now merged back into your main order history, and there isn’t a setting to bring back manual archiving.
“You can no longer archive orders. You can use Amazon Family to link accounts if multiple family members would like to maintain separate order histories.”
This means that the old “hide this order” trick simply no longer exists for most shared accounts — Amazon expects privacy to be managed at the account level rather than the order level.
You cannot permanently delete your Amazon order history
Even before the archive option was removed, deleting orders from Amazon’s records was never possible. Archiving (when it existed) only removed an order from view but did not remove it from Amazon’s system. Likewise now, there’s no way to completely erase a purchase from your account’s transaction history. Amazon retains order records for customer support, returns, legal, and compliance reasons, and these records remain tied to your account indefinitely.
“You can’t delete Amazon orders. The only option was to archive, which hid the order from the main view but didn’t remove it from Amazon’s system.”
That means even if you use workarounds like separate accounts or Amazon Household, Amazon itself still retains the purchase data — you just control who sees it.
You cannot use the mobile app to archive orders (even if your account was once eligible).
Even back when archiving still worked in some accounts, Amazon’s mobile app never reliably supported it — users always had to switch to a desktop site to archive purchases. In 2026, with the archive feature removed entirely for many accounts, the mobile app offers no way to hide or archive orders at all — period.
So if you’re trying to find a “hidden” or “archive” option inside the Amazon app’s settings, it simply doesn’t exist.
You cannot hide orders just by using Alexa or voice commands.
Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa can announce order shipments, delivery updates, and more, and while you can silence those notifications (as covered earlier), there is no voice command that hides an order from the order history.
If you ask Alexa to hide an order, the assistant will either not understand or direct you to log into the Amazon website — because the only real privacy mechanisms today are account-based, not order-based.
You cannot rely on “erase browsing history” features to fully hide purchases.
Clearing your browsing history or search history on Amazon can reduce the likelihood that product suggestions or homepage recommendations reveal hints about what you bought, but it does not remove the purchase from Amazon’s database or hide it from order history. These settings only affect recommendation algorithms and what you see on your homepage.
You cannot remove order records from Amazon’s systems entirely, even through customer support
Many users assume that contacting Amazon Support can result in order deletion. However, support agents cannot remove or wipe out order history from Amazon’s servers — they can only help with returns, refunds, and certain privacy settings. This is because orders are tied to transactional records, taxation, warranties, and legal compliance.
That means even if you request removal, Amazon is obligated to keep order history for business and legal reasons.
Together, these limitations explain why the only reliable way to control who sees your purchases on shared accounts today is to use separate accounts, Amazon Household, or similar account-level privacy strategies instead of hoping to hide or delete specific orders one by one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I permanently delete Amazon order history?
No. Amazon keeps permanent records of all transactions for legal, tax, and warranty reasons. This is why using separate accounts is the only reliable way to keep order history private.
Can my spouse see my payments in Amazon Household?
Your spouse cannot see your individual order history. However, if you share a credit card, charges will still appear on the bank statement. For complete privacy, use a separate payment method or Amazon gift card balance on your personal account.
The Bottom Line
Amazon removed Archive Orders, and that change is not going away.
However, Amazon Household provides better privacy than archive ever did. Instead of hiding purchases after they happen, it prevents them from being visible in the first place.
If privacy matters to you, the solution is straightforward.
Stop sharing one login. Start using separate Amazon accounts.
Whether you choose Amazon Household for long-term use or a second account with a Prime free trial for short-term needs, both methods solve the problem completely.
Problem solved.
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