How to remove items from your Amazon browsing history

Amazon keeps a history of everything you look at on their platform, and in this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can hide or remove items from your browsing history using the Amazon app or website. We will also show you how to stop the shopping giant from saving your browsing history.

Remove items from your Amazon history

If you use Amazon for holiday gifts, then having a constant window into everything you’ve looked at recently may prove to be a spoiler for anyone who uses the same computer or account as you. Others might just not want to have a trail of what they’re looking into purchasing.

Amazon uses your history to personalize your recommendation, and removing items from there may affect it. But at the end of the day, everyone has their own privacy reasons for covering their tracks, and they will vary from one person to the next.

Remove individual items from your Amazon history

Starting small, perhaps you just want to remove one specific item from your Amazon browsing history and not everything. To do that, follow these simple steps on your phone or computer.

From the app

  1. Open the Amazon app and tap You from the bottom.
  2. Tap Browsing history next to ‘Keep shopping for.’
  3. Tap Remove from view for an item you no longer want in your Amazon browsing history.
Remove an item from your Amazon history using the Amazon app

From the website

  1. Visit the Amazon browsing history at amazon.com/gp/history. If you’re in a different country, changing com with your country’s Amazon domain extension like ca for Canada, fr for France, co.uk for England, and com.au for Australia, should do the trick. Alternatively, you can scroll to the bottom of your Amazon homepage and click ‘View or edit your browsing history‘ next to ‘Your browsing history.’
  2. When the page loads, scroll through your history results and find something you want to hide from your history.
  3. Click the Remove from view button underneath the item to get rid of it from your browsing history.
Remove from view in Amazon history using its website

Remove all history items

If, instead of removing only one item from your browsing history, you want to remove everything, then you can do that as well.

From the app

  1. Access your Amazon browsing history.
  2. Tap Manage history, choose Remove all items from view, and confirm your choice.
Remove all items from your Amazon browsing history in app

From the website

  1. Visit the Amazon browsing history web page using your favorite web browser.
  2. Click the Manage History drop-down arrow and choose the Remove all items from view button that appears just above your browsing history.
Remove all items from your Amazon browsing history using its website

Now, all of your browsing history will be deleted from Amazon, so you won’t have to delete everything individually.

Turn off your Amazon browsing history

If you want to hide all your browsing history on Amazon, you can turn it off so Amazon doesn’t keep track of it anymore.

To do that, access your Amazon browsing history page in the app or website and hit Manage history. Next, turn off the switch next to ‘Turn on/off browsing history.’ Now, Amazon will no longer show you your recent browsing history on this device.

Turn off browsing history on Amazon in the app

These methods can help you increase your personal privacy when using Amazon on a shared machine. Do you have any reason to hide your Amazon browsing history? Share in the comments below!

On a related note: How to hide an Amazon order from your purchase history