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You can no longer archive or hide orders from your Amazon history.
Amazon recommends setting up Family accounts instead.
Previously archived orders now show in your main history.
If you plan on doing some holiday shopping in next week's Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon has quietly made a change you should know about -- you can no longer archive, hide, or delete items from your order history.
I found this out for myself when I went to hide a present order from my Amazon history since my wife and I share an account. This isn't a feature I used often, but for years around birthdays, our anniversary, or especially Christmas, I'd remove a purchase just so someone else wouldn't accidentally see it.
When I tried to hide a purchase last week, the option wasn't there.
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