How to Clear Amazon Music History on Multiple Platforms

Posted by Adam Gorden on Sep 19, 2022 5:00 PM.
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"Hi guys, how can I delete the song history in Amazon Music? It keeps suggesting me songs I'm not interested since I listened to it or similar songs few times. I'm using AmazonMusic web version. Thanks - Reddit"

Just like most streaming music services, Amazon Music keeps close tracks of users' history on its platforms, both for convenience and further music recommendation. However, sometimes this can be frustrating when it comes to the real experience with listening privacy.

No worries. We're here to offer possible instructions for how to clear 3 kinds of histories on Amazon Music - song history, search history and browse history. We'd like to start with the most important clear Amazon Music history.

Part 1. How to Clear Song History on Amazon Music
Part 2. How to Clear Search History on Amazon Music
Part 3. How to Clear Browsing History on Amazon Music
Exclusives: Convert Amazon Music into Compatible Formats with Devices and Platforms

Part 1. How to Clear Song History on Amazon Music

For starters, it's hard not to mention the difference between Amazon Music cache and song history. In our experience, there's no clear Amazon Music history function supported on the mobile devices from Android to iOS devices.

clear Amazon Music cache instead

To Clear Amazon Music Cache on Mobile Devices

For Android and iOS users, we'd recommend to clear Amazon Music cache instead if it's acceptable to delete all original records on Amazon Music. You can click on the article link.

Thing You'll Need: Amazon Music App for Desktop

In our test, the clear song history on Amazon Music function is available on its desktop app. On Amazon Music web player, there's the remove song from recently played instead.

To Clear Song History on Amazon Music App

1. On desktop, open Amazon Music app.

2. From the top, click LIBRARY then Music.

library music on Amazon Music app

3. In the LIBRARY, scroll through songs under Recently Played and Song History under RECENTS.

4. Locate the song to clear under Recently Played or Song History, right-click it then Remove from History.

remove song from history

To clear all songs in the Song History:

5. Note the forward and back icon next to Song History section to find the song you want to delete from the Song History.

Or

5. Click SEE ALL button next to it to go to a full view.

see all button on Amazon Music

6. In the full view of SONG HISTORY, click each song tab to clear Amazon Music history.

remove from full view of song history

To Clear Song History on Amazon Music Web Player

When it comes to Amazon Music clear history function on its web player, the process is simple to finish the task on its app. However, some steps need to be clarified.

1. Use a browser to go to Amazon Music Web Player.

From here make sure the Amazon Music account has been signed in.

2. From the top menu, click the Headphones icon. Or adjust the window's size to see the full LIBRARY button with the icon.

library icon on Amazon Music Web Player

3. Still, go to Music.

4. In the similar LIBRARY view, note there's no Song History but the Recently Played section with recently played items.

5. To delete song from Recently Played, show the horizonal 3 dots icon on the song album art.

more options on recently played

6. Then Remove from Recently Played.

remove from recently played

Note: As stated, an Amazon Music desktop app is required to clear song history with items.

Part 2. How to Clear Search History on Amazon Music

In addition to the song history, Amazon Music users may also want to clear the existing search history. We'd like to offer the instruction for how to clear search history on Amazon Music.

Note: Different from the Recently Played, the search history is separate on Amazon Music app for desktop and Amazon Music web player.

To Clear Search History on Amazon Music App

1.In Amazon Music app, click on the Search box.

This will direct to the Search view with various Amazon Music recommendations.

If there is a search history to clear, the Search History will show all the items that have been searched in Amazon Music. If there's no searched items or the search history has been cleared, the section won't show.

2. To clear search history with the searched items on Amazon Music, see and click on the "X" icon.

Now all the searched items under Search History has been deleted from Amazon Music.

no search history on Amazon Music

To Clear Search History on Amazon Music Web Player

The process is the same as on Amazon Music app.

1. On Amazon Music web player, click on the Search box.

2. If there's an existing search history, all the searched items will show under Search History.

3. Click on the "X" icon to clear the whore search history with the searched items.

Part 3. How to Clear Browsing History on Amazon Music

Besides the accessible songs on Amazon Music's most-used platforms, Amazon Music users can have some browse history on Amazon Music web.

To Clear Browsing History on Amazon Music Web:

1. Use a browser to go to Browsing History.

2. Under Your Browsing History, see all the items.

3. Click on Remove from view under the selected item's renewal details.

remove from view

4. After that, the selected items will show Removed instead.

removed view

Or to remove all items from view:

1. Click on Manage history next to Your Browsing History, to show more hidden options.

2. Click Remove all items from view.

remove all items from view

3. In the pop-up with this message: "If you clear history, we'll remove all items currently in your history", click Remove all items from view to confirm or cancel.

Now all the Recently Viewed items is removed.

Or to hide Browsing History on Amazon Music web:

1. Still, click on the Manage history.

2. See Turn Browsing History on/off option, switch it Off.

turn off browsing history

5. A new notification will appear: "Your Recently Viewed Items is currently turned off on this browser."

Tips: To show the hidden Browsing History, repeat the steps to switch it On.

Exclusives: Convert Amazon Music into Compatible Formats with Devices or Platforms

Considering that the real experience with Amazon Music's recommendation is not as expected and even the listening privacy is problematic, we'd recommend to download and convert all the DRM-encoded Amazon music from the platform to most compatible formats like MP3 with another device or platform.

Thing You'll Need: ViWizard Amazon Music Converter

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