How To Delete Amazon Order History from Windows, Mac and App

Shopping, everyone loves shopping rights especially Amazon is the most famous shopping

 app. We love to shop but with shopping, there comes a lot of difficulties such as if you want to hide your order history you may face some problems because we usually share our accounts with her family and friends. But now you do not have to worry we have got it all covered. 

In this article, we will be telling you how to delete your Amazon order history as well as how to hide your specific purchases. This can be useful in decluttering your Amazon as well as this will be helpful in making your purchase private and personal. 

So this article has provided a step-by-step guide that you need to follow in order to delete your Amazon order history.

This article will teach you how to log in to your account, how to navigate to your orders, how to archive your individual orders as well and how to access your archived order. By following the article as well as the steps that are given you can easily control and manage the activity regarding Amazon orders. You just have to follow the steps carefully and you can do that while maintaining the knowledge of past purchases. 

This will also help in keeping your activity private and you can easily remove or hide any or all Amazon order history.

Let’s First Discuss How To Clear Amazon Order History.

Clear Amazon Order History 

This can be a concern if you have shared your Amazon account with any of your knowns. That person might see your archived ordering and after viewing that he can easily access your past orders that you have archived that to be without any difficulties.

You can do one thing and by doing this there is no need to hide any of your activities on Amazon. What you can do is have a second Amazon account that you can use to purchase stuff that is sensitive to you. Because even if you cancel your account Amazon will still retain your history of purchase.

Note:- some information that you should keep in mind before deleting your order history.

• In order to delete Amazon’s order history you can only use a web browser.
• There are a limited number of order histories that you can archive and the number is 500. Only 500 items of your order history can be archived.

Now Let’s Jump Onto

How To Delete Amazon Order History

 There are a few steps that you need to follow if you want to delete your Amazon order history. These are really easy steps and will not take much of your time.

1. The first thing that you need to do is visit the Amazon website i,e www.amazon.com. the site will be open in a web browser.
2. After the first step, you need to use your email address as well as your password in order to sign into your Amazon account of Amazon.
3. You will see the ‘account and list’ option, at the very top right corner of the Amazon page. You need to hover over the ‘account and list’ option and after that, you will see a menu that will be a drop-down menu.
4. Now you need to click on the option ‘your orders’ which will be in the drop-down menu. You need to do this because you need to view your order history. 
5. In order to delete your order or orders you need to select orders from history orders from the option ‘your orders’. A list of recent orders will appear. 
6. Now, we have our past orders on our screens. Therefore you can click on any order you wish to archive. For this, you just need to click on the archive orders button which will be at the right of the order.
7. After selecting an order if you want to archive the order you can do that by confirming the message. For that you need to click on the ‘archive’ and then you can proceed.
8. If you want to delete orders from your Amazon history you need to repeat the 6th and 7th steps. 

Note

Please pay attention that just archiving an order does not mean that the order deleted from the history permanently. It is still there in Amazon’s system. By archiving it, we have just removed it from our default order history.

Another important thing is that some orders related to third parties or digital purchases might not archive.

Now Let’s Get To Know What to do To Hide Our Amazon Order History.

How To Hide Amazon Order History From Your Family? 

Even if you are able or may archive your order history or let’s say you have deleted your order history but Amazon still keeps transactional information for legal purposes and record keeping.

For that, you can even contact customer support at Amazon if you think that you require that for any other assistance or even if you have any queries or are concerned about any of your orders or order history. 

So, How To Hide An Order On The Amazon App? 

There are again some very simple and easy steps to follow in order to hide and order from your Amazon app. 

1. You first need to open the Amazon app.
2. After opening the app, you need to sign into your Amazon account on either your mobile or any other device.
3. You will see a main screen, there will be three horizontal lines ‘the menu icon’, you need to tap on that.
4. There you will see many options, you need to tap on the option ‘your order’ in order to see your order history.
5. Now, from your order page, you can hide any order.
6. For hiding an order you just need to swipe left on your order. By doing this there will be many order options available.
7. After doing that in the Amazon app, tap or click on the ‘archive’ or ‘hide’ order options. The wording can vary as it depends on the version of the app that you have. 
8. After that, you will be asked or given the option of what you want to archive or hide. As in, which order you would like to hide or archive? Tap on ‘hide’ or ‘archive’ for that.

After completing all these steps your default order history of the Amazon app will no longer be available or visible or even shown your past orders as you have archived or hidden them.

Note

It is important to know that hiding an order does not mean that the order history of the Amazon app is permanently deleted from the system of Amazon.

We would suggest you to go to Amazon customer support if you face any trouble in hiding an order or if you have any queries or questions. You can directly question the company.

Now, Let’s Stump On To How To Hide Amazon Order.

How Do I Hide Amazon Orders? 

Again very simple steps are there to follow if you wish to hide any of your Amazon orders or orders from Amazon order history. Just follow the following steps carefully and that’s it.

1. You first need to visit the website of Amazon i,e www.amazon.com, in any of the Web browsers. 
2. Secondly, you need to sign in to your account, and for that, you need to use your email address and password in your Amazon account.
3. There will be an ‘account and list’ option at the very top right corner, which you will be seeing. So, hover over that and you will see a dropped-down menu.
4. After that, you need to click on ‘your orders’ which will be in the drop-down menu.
5. Then, you can view your order history. 
6. After doing that, you can hide any of your orders on the page ‘your orders’.
7. At the right of each past order, you will see a button for the ‘Archive orders.’
8. Now, click on the button in order to hide your past Amazon orders.
9. You then need to click on ‘archive’ and your orders will be removed from the history of Amazon orders.

Note

You can still access any of your archived orders through many other sections of your account, for example, ‘refunds and returns’. So you need to remember that archiving does not mean that the order has been removed permanently from the system of Amazon. 

We would also recommend you contact Amazon customer care and support if you face any problem as well as require guidance and assistance regarding this.

See, We Will Be Seeing How To Delete Your Order History On Your Desktop. 

How To Delete Your Amazon Order History From/On Desktop?

Again, you just have to follow very simple steps for this. The steps are given below. Just like all the above steps that have been mentioned earlier in this article, even these steps are really easy to follow. So do not panic, and do not think it is going to be hard, it is not.

1. So, what you need to do is to go to the Amazon website and you need to type your credentials and login into your account. 
2. After doing that you need to select the option “returns and orders”. You will see this option in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. If you want to see the details of the others that you have placed then you need to click on “view order details”. You will see the details of the orders that you have placed in the last 3 months.
4. The most important thing that you need to know is that you can hide a limited number of orders in the number 500. But apart from that you can still see the orders in your account’s “archived orders.”
5. If the order or item that you have placed is not available even more than 3 months then you can modify the top-of-the-page settings and things will be all fine.

Now Let’s See How To Archive An Order.

How To Archive An Amazon Order? 

You need to remember that when you are archiving an order or an item that means it is not completely removed from the order page. Though they are still hidden, they are not removed completely.

So if you specifically search for the items that you have please and order for will still be appearing.

1. The first thing that you need to note is that you can access your orders through ‘return and orders’. For that, log into your Amazon account and click on the ‘return and orders’ link.
2. You will see an option called ‘archive orders’ at the bottom left of the page. So in order to hide the items that you wanted to hide you need to select the ‘archive order’ option.
3. Confirm if you want to really archive the order when you click it.
4. After doing that if you want to view what the orders you have archived click on the ‘your accounts’ option that you will see in the menu. After doing that you can see the details of your archived orders.
5. Under the option ‘ordering and shipping preferences’ on that page you need to click on the archived orders link.

How Can We Hide Amazon Order History From The Amazon Website Itself.

Even for this, there are very simple steps that you need to follow.

1. So the first thing that you need to do is log into your Amazon account. In order to do that you just need your email address and the password. If you have all of these then you need to enter your credentials on the site Amazon.com. In the top right-hand corner of this website, you will see the option. Once you type all of your information, you just need to click on the ‘sign in’ button. After doing that you will be able to access your Amazon account.
2. The second step is, you need to access your account settings. In order to access your account settings you need to click on the option ‘account and list’. You will be seeing this on the right-hand corner of the page. 
3. After doing that, you will see a drop-down menu. In that menu, you need to choose the ‘your account’ option in order to view your account information.
4. The next step that you need to do is to navigate your browsing history. When you click on the option ‘your account’ a page will open and that will include many options and settings. You need to scroll down until you see the option ‘shopping programs and rentals’. Once you find that you need to click on the ‘browsing history’ link. Once you click on that you will be taken to another page. Here you can see the history of your Amazon browsing.
5. Now you need to manage your browsing history. At the top right corner of the page, there is a button called ‘manage history’. You need to click on that and then it will be possible for you to hide your Amazon order history. Now, you will manage your browsing history by clicking on the ‘manage history’ button on a very new page.
6. Now, all you need to do is turn off ‘your browsing history’. By doing that you will and can prevent Amazon from keeping any of your records or browsing history. Moreover, you can also click on the option ‘delete all items’, and your Amazon browsing history will be deleted.
7. After that, you need to confirm your selection. When you click on the ‘turn off browsing history’ or ‘delete all items’ option, you will see a pop-up window. This will appear for your confirmation. You just need to click on delete or turn it off again, it is just for the confirmation purpose.
8. So, now you need to check your account settings. You will see your browsing history has been turned off under the ‘shopping program and rental section’. If you want to confirm that you should go back to the option of ‘your account’,. On this page check your account settings. 
9. Now, we need to check your order history. We are doing this because we need to confirm if the orders that we wished to remove have been removed and are no longer visible on the ‘your order’ page.

Note:- You need to remember that it might take some time to remove your orders from your account. However, You can contact customer care services regarding this problem.

Conclusion

Deleting your order history can be a really good thing to do. Because this will declutter your Amazon app or website either on your phone or on your desktop. The most important thing is that the steps are not that difficult. You just need to sign in and then click on the options that are mentioned and you will be easily removing or archiving your past placed Amazon orders.

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