✅ Archive items: exclude from search/autofill

+1 Very interested in this as well

Users have been asking for this since 2019!! It has more than 450 votes…. why has Bitwarden not spent time to look into this and make it happen?!? It is so annoying to scroll through old (that should be archived) items during search? An yes, I have created a new folder and moved all those in it, renamed all of them to start with something like ZZZ or AAA so I know they have been “archived”! Why do I need to move them to another password manager in order not to see them during the search in Bitwarden?

It just makes no sense!

@Joe7 … I would recommend to have a look into the posts above your post – then maybe it all makes sense in the end. :wink:

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@Nail1684 I did… after I posted my rant :roll_eyes:.. my bad! I just hope that it will be what we’ve asked for all these years.

can you tell me ETA ?

The branch was merged into main on Github on September 22, however - if I’m not wrong - the archive feature still isn’t available on the webapp (current version 2025.12.0). Any idea when this will be released?

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@Nicolas Welcome to the forum!

There is a feature flag:

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Hello @grb , thanks for your answer! Hopefully available soon for everyone then :smiley:

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@Nicolas @grb Additionally, they’re still working on some things, as it seems… e.g. this PR [PM-26514] Archive With Non Premium User by Jingo88 · Pull Request #17820 · bitwarden/clients · GitHub and this one [PM-27884][PM-27886][PM-27885] - Add Cipher Archives by jaasen-livefront · Pull Request #6578 · bitwarden/server · GitHub are still open…

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bad news, seems like archive will be available only for premium users

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@superdave Well, it depends. Good news that Bitwarden works on this highly needed feature, and maybe, maybe this year it will be released. And if it is important enough for you, I recommend to get the Premium.

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Roadmap - Updated January 2026:

from here:

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So we’ve been waiting for this very basic feature for years, and when they finally release it they make it premium only… Quite disappointed with Bitwarden :frowning:

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That together with the price hike.

Release Notes | Bitwarden 2026.2.1: “Item archiving: Users on paid subscriptions can now archive vault items to exclude them from search and from autofill without removing them from the vault.”

I installed Version 2026.2.1 (57189) and there is no “Item archiving”.

Any idea why it is not available?

New features often have feature flags… Bitwarden probably will “activate” this feature in the next few days…

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In the update text for 2026.2.1. (MacOS App Store, never a version 2026.2.0) nothing is written about “Item Archiving”, in the update text for iOS “Fixed issues affecting vault exports and archived items”. Confusing. Also because of offering fixes for a function which does not exists. And no version 2026.2.? Well, we will see …

Hi everyone, this feature is now available on all paid plans.

Rolling out now and may take time to be available for everyone.

Resources

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