how to delete purchased Appstore history?

I replied below, but wanted to respond to this comment. Yes, you can permanently delete purchases on amazon. See my longer post about 7 comments forward.

Did not realize my reply would not include the original post, or be added below the post I was replying to. Can I delete a comment, or is it too, permanent history? I am using an iPad currently.

Another way is to hide the app. Just slide from right to left and then tap "Hide".

You can hide ... but not delete from your purchase history. So best solution is to stop using/abandon your id and create a new one. Delete the old ID from your memory but not from Apple memory. Itunes will store your purchase history forever.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919

hopes this helps.

I emailed support. They don't care. Apparently it's "fraud" to remove apps from your history, even if there was no money transacted, no revenue, and nothing to report to the government.

It also took me 3 emails to get them to actually read the content of my email, and not send me a canned response with a link to an irrelevant article.

keeping this bumped to the top

Andjdfhuisdfghsdfyugdif wrote:

keeping this bumped to the top

Why? You've already gotten an answer.

Actually, he hasn't had an answer. We KNOW how to hide the apps we've downloaded.. but not remove them. One I've succesfully 'hidden' keeps showing up in my App Stoe window whenever they issue an update.. it's HIDDEN but I get the annoying reminder that somewhere, deep in my system, are a few apps that just absolutely suck, that I never want to use think about, and that are a waste of memory/cpu/resrouces. But there they are, telling me every few weeks about a new update to a product I'll never touch again.

And no, firing up a new account and letting this one die.. means I have to go back and pay for the good apps I've bought, because as far as I know, Apple will not let me move apps to a different account... I know they won't let you do that with itunes purchases.

What this does really is discourage me from taking a chance on apps that I don't know of directly or through trusted real world friends. If Apple still has third party evangelists, who want more apps for Apple products, should be pushing defect left and right.

Apple Customer Support told him that the record of the purchase cannot be removed from the account. Other people have received the same answer. Posting here isn't going to get a different one.

He got the answer. What part of NO doesn't he understand?

Have you asked your credit card issuer to delete your purchase history? If so, what was the answer? And that's something that many people wish they could delete.

Have you asked your bank to delete certain checks from your statement? What was the answer?

How about asking your doctor to delete certain visits from our medical record?

Try deleting the app from your computer.

Deleting the app from your computer does not delete it from the purchase history.

Is this what everyone here is trying to do:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57379574-285/how-to-delete-unwanted-ios-apps -from-itunes/

ScubaNYC wrote:

Is this what everyone here is trying to do:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57379574-285/how-to-delete-unwanted-ios-apps -from-itunes/

No, what people want to do is to delete the app from their purchase history in their account settings, presumably so there is no record of them having purchased embarrassing apps or apps they wouldn't want another family member or SO to know about.

I don't know why anyone espects Apple to provide this capability, when your MasterCard, Visa, American Express or other credit card won't do it. Or try asking your bank to remove a check from your statement. Are the apps that you purchased more embarrassing than the **** site subscription that appears on your credit card every month?