Archived items stay in your vault but are hidden from search results and wonāt show up in autofill suggestions
Archiving an item only affects your personal view, so if youāre a family or team member, it doesnāt change anything for other members. Archived items can be unarchived at any time.
Great for old accounts you want to keep but donāt actively use. Available now on all paid subscriptions.
This feature is rolling out now and may take time to be available for everyone.
woohooo 
Iā¦ i donāt think thatās a good idea. what I wanted.
For example when logging in to google, i have 8 different accounts. Out of those, i could archive 5. But when i search for google, i would still want to see my archived ones (sorted by archived last), so i can click the Fill button in those very rare occasions .
This is impossible with the presented implementation.
Iām curious how other people who also wanted item archiving find this implementation.
@ rawdax Welcome to the forum!
At least those who participated ā per posts and votes ā in this feature request since July 2019 (and Iām sure, it was also raised in other places like Reddit):
Feel free not to use the archive feature.
The archive does not show up in your folder list. The only place you encounter the archive feature is if you use the āMore Optionsā menu.
One can exclude a vault entry from autofill but not from searching by setting its match detection to never.
That said, Disabling auto-fill on a vault entry affects most of the all ~8 autofill methods, including both inline-autofill and the fill button. So in the rare occasion, you would likely need to use drag-and-drop.
One method is not disabled by setting URI match detection to āNeverā: forced autofill still works, by selecting āAutofillā from the āMore Optionsā menu, and then clicking Autofill without adding. I think that this approach would work well for the use-case described by @TheBestPessimist.
Thank you for your suggestions @DenBesten and @grb. I will check if playing with the url works for me better than the archive.
I just tested the following, and found out that archiving (as well as unarchiving) updates the itemās Last Edited timestamp. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Discuss! 
oh my gosh Iāve been waiting for this for agessss. Very excited!
My main interest in an archive feature is to remove 2FA codes from the āVerification Codesā screen, so that old 2fa codes can be decluttered without deleting them.
I learned from the Bitwarden support that this feature has not yet been published to Bitwarden Lite, i. e. itās not yet available in self-hosted scenarios - looking very much forward!
Wonderful! Thank you! It works excellently!
I wish there was a way to organize the item in the archive section in to folders.
The reason for this is because for every Linux machine I have a minimum of 2 logins. One for SSH and one for Webmin (https://IP-Address:10000) and I need a way to organize them but also for them not to show up in search or autofill.
The archived items do retain their previously configured folder assignments. However, there are no filters available to filter by folder in the archive, because by design, archived items are excluded from searching/filtering.
So it sounds like what youāre asking for is a completely separate search function that works for the archive only.
Archiving is designed for unused items that you want to forget about, but not completely delete. For items that you actually still use, you should probably find a different solution.
To exclude items from autofill, either set the URI match detection to āNeverā for the itemās stored website(s), or add the domain to the block list at Settings > Autofill > Blocked Domains.
To exclude items from searches, you could either use advanced search expressions to make your searches more restrictive, or you could assign the to-be-excluded items to a designated folder or collection, and then use filtering to select only folders/collections other than the one to be exlcuded.
i think the āarchiveā feature might benefit quite a lot from the ālabelsā feature (Labels (tags)):
and now anyone can control EXACTLY how BW should act and show/hide/nest/autofill their items.
Labels is so promising, yet seems like its sooooooooo far away.
To stay on-topic for this thread, I will only comment on one of your suggestions (for the others, feel free to start a discussion in the corresponding Feature Request thread):
How would the new Archive feature benefit from addition of an #archive label to the vault items?
the āarchive featureā would be replaced with the āarchive tag/labelā, thatās what i had in mind.
āarchiveā is just a marker. a āboolean flagā if you will. An item (password/note) either has it or does not have it.
Same with a label: a note would either have it or not.
And my idea is that some labels would have some extra baggage associated with them, like my 3 bullet points above
I feel like this would be easier to do with folders than tags.
E.G. When creating a folder, there would be a checkbox you would check so that the items in the folders do not show up in searches.
To go one step further, every item has the same checkbox so that when checked /enabled that item will not show up in searches.
I think adding it to the individual item would be easier because the foundation is already there compared to the foundation for folders.
No, what I am looking for is a way to organize items that have been marked as āArchivedā.
Right now if you go in to the archive section, it lists every single item that you have marked as archived.
What I am wanting is a way to organize these items within the āArchivedā section.
Ideally, I would have liked to see was that each idea when you create it or edit it, gets a new flag / checkbox that when enabled it would hide that entry from searches and autofills.
However, (playing devils advocate) those item would still show up in your folders when you donāt want them to from a visual aspect. So how would you deal with that?
Maybe that when you check the box to remove from search and autofill, it puts it in the new āArchivedā section but also auto creates the folder structure that it is in prior to being put in to the āArchivedā section.
I know about this but the problem is it requires a lot of over head / management when you have a lot of entries. Same with changing the URI filter to never.
The archived items are organized (their original folder assignments are retained), but because search and filtering is disabled for archived items, you cannot ābrowseā the folder structure in the archive (as you cannot filter the archive view to show only items in a specific folder).
If you want to use search and filtering for archived items, then you are defeating the purpose of the archive. It would be better for you to simply create a folder named Archive, and create subfolders Archive/financial, etc. ā these will all be searchable. Alternatively, create a second vault (a second individual account, or an organization), and place your pseudo-archive there.
Same for assigning each item to the archiveā¦
Another problem with that: itās not a synced setting, so it had to be done for every extension/mobile app separately. (and all over again in case of a reinstall)
