How to Continue Your Amazon Gift Purchases a Secret

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If yous utilise a shared Amazon Prime business relationship to purchase gifts, it'south piece of cake to ruin a surprise. All information technology takes is a loved i looking at your order history or getting notification about a delivery to spoil some of the fun. But there are a few quick steps you can take to keep your holiday or birthday shopping a secret.

1. Plow on Amazon Household.By far, the simplest solution is to utilise Amazon Household. This lets ii adults share all the benefits of Amazon Prime while keeping their shopping habits separate. Become to the Amazon Households home folio and y'all'll exist able to store in peace, with each person maintaining their own split up profile and notifications when things ship.

But with the holidays virtually here, you might feel as well rushed to set Households. And it won't solve your Amazon gift problem if you also share your business relationship with higher-age kids or other adults. Fortunately, there are farther tricks you tin can use.

2. Archive orders.If you lot don't desire someone seeing the gift by snooping on your past orders, this is a quick fix. Head to Orders. Underneath everything yous've ordered, you'll see a link that says "Annal Social club." This will remove it from your list of orders. (Don't worry; y'all can always see your archived orders. Go to Accounts & Lists > Your Business relationship > Archived Orders if you need to call them upwards again.)

3. Control notifications.You can't disable all Amazon notifications. No affair what, yous'll e'er get emails when you identify an social club, once it'south shipped, and once it'due south delivered. But you lot can control where that email goes.

From the Amazon abode page, go to Accounts & Lists > Your Business relationship > Advice and content > Communication preferences > General settings. From at that place, yous can change what electronic mail address volition be notified when something is ordered on Amazon.

If you get SMS notifcations, you can do the aforementioned matter. Go to Accounts & Lists > Your Account > Communication and content > Communication preferences > Shipment updates via text. You tin can either alter the telephone number that gets text notifications or unsubscribe altogether.

Notifcations tin can also pop up if y'all have the Amazon app on your smartphone or tablet. To control them in iOS, go to Settings > Notifications, and set Amazon to "Off." To practise the same on Android, go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications, and set Amazon to "Off."

4. Clear your search history.Your search history can requite you away easily, and Amazon saves it past default. To turn it off, become to your Browsing History folio by going to Accounts & Lists > Your Recommendations > Your browsing history. From there you can clear out items one past one, clear your entire search history, or even turn off your search history permanently.

5. Tidy up your recommendations.Even if you articulate your search history, Amazon'southward production recommendations can still requite you away. Spend besides much time searching for a Le Creuset dutch oven and your product recommendations are going to feature a lot of dutch ovens and enamel pans, tipping your hand to the chef in your life. To remove certain items from your recommendations, go to Accounts & Lists > Your Recommendations > Meliorate Your Recommendations. From there, you lot can click on items that shouldn't be used for this purpose.

6. Use an Amazon locker.The Amazon website isn't the only thing that can give away a surprise; in that location's also the niggling matter of a box showing up on your doorstep. I solution is to take Amazon souvenir-wrap it for you. Another is to use an Amazon Locker, available in 900 cities and towns in the U.Southward. If an Amazon Locker is nearby, it will pop up as a delivery location when you make your purchase. You tin as well search to see if there'southward 1 near you. When the item arrives, you'll be sent a ane-time code to unlock the locker, and your souvenir volition be safe from prying eyes.

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