I don’t really know what happened, but I seem to have a ton of different wish lists on my Amazon.com account. Is there some way to get rid of them?
As a fellow heavy Amazon.com user – and Prime member – I know exactly what you mean about the way that wish lists on the site seem to grow like kudzu on a tree in the swamps. My impression is that Amazon hasn’t really paid much attention to wishlists for a long time because they’re not particularly useful or intuitive compared to a lot of the other site features. Still, regardless of the case, it is surprisingly easy to add a new wish list to your account when you want to just add something to your default list.
Worse, there’s a default wishlist that you don’t even need to specify. Simply click on the “Add to List” button (rather than opening up the menu of choices) and you can add things to your default list super easily:
You’re probably already familiar with that, however, because that’s how you got all those darn wishlists, right? 🙂
To fix the problem go to your Account & Lists menu:
You can already see that I have a bunch of stray wishlists too: Wishlist, Dave’s Wish List, Shopping List 2 and Wish List. That’s a lot!
Click on any of the lists and on the left side on the subsequent page you’ll see all your lists with their privacy settings:
Much more interestedly, on the right side, you’ll see a detailed view that shows what’s on your list – if anything – and more. Here’s what my Wishlist looks like:
We can get completely sidetracked talking about Neil Gaiman and his new book Norse Mythology, but that’s not really what we’re talking about here, is it? Let’s stay on focus! Well, before we leave entirely, notice you can add comments and even prioritize your individual wishlist items. Does anyone do that? Who knows. But you can.
Now, back to task! See the link on the top right “List settings“? Click on it and you’ll see a full list of every list you’ve created:
From here you can pick your default wishlist, rename some of the lists, change privacy or… aha! delete unwanted wishlists.
So you can delete wishlists from this view by simply checking on the boxes associated with the unwanted lists and clicking “Submit“.
And done. Now, what’s on your wishlist?
Thank you so much, Dave (and others) – that’s been such a help!
The smug young UX designers at Amazon (and Apple software, etc. etc.) enjoy changing the design & location of commonly-used UI controls just to make us all feel stupid. I’m a UI/UX designer myself and I HATE that!
Now the “Manage List” link is hidden under 3 square “dots” to the right of “Send list to others” — how intuitive, yes? Sheesh. and they can’t even keep up with their own constant changes in their “Help” area. Of course it will change again next month anyway.
Plus, we can no longer search across ALL wishlists, we can only search within EACH list. (I have a dozen lists, so that’s bad.)
How do you remove a list in your name (In this case an animal rescue I work for) that someone else created in that name, is no longer relevant yet keeps showing up when you search the rescue’s name? Our real wish list is mixed in with these other lists. Customer service says they can’t removed them or tell me who created them so I can ask them to remove them.
Why on earth do they keep changing how to manage lists! To delete a list first select that list. Then click on the three dots “…” in upper right area. Select manage lists and then scroll to the bottom to select delete lists. Thanks for this article and the update above. Hopefully these instructions won’t be outdated next week!
I still don’t see Edit this list option. I’m using IPad
My Amazon Lists page doesn’t have a “List Settings” at the top right. I also do not have “Edit this List” at center of the page. How can I delete and/rename my Lists? In case it matters, I am using an iPad. This is so frustrating!
Dave,
My Amazon Lists page does not have a “List Settings” on the top right, and I’m unable to delete or rename any lists at all. Do you know what the problem could be?
Unfortunately, the info above is outdated. As of 11/10/17, to remove an Amazon list:
– Hover cursor over ‘Account and Lists’ at top right, under your name.
– Click on ‘Your Lists’.
– Next click on one of your lists, at left.
– Then click ‘Edit this list’ near center of page.
– Click ‘Delete List’ at bottom left of pop-up.
– Confirm ‘Yes’ to complete.
I believe the only list that cannot be deleted is the one actually named ‘Wish List’.
THANK YOU!!! This was driving me NUTS!!!
Yeah – That was the missing piece. Thanks. Amazon needs to update their “help” to reflect this.
The Edit list link is not there at this time. Jul 2008