Magento2 remove All Previous addresses on checkout page when selecting shipping address

Question

When i checkout as a logged in user, and if i have added my address in an earlier purchase, i am presented with previous addresses which i have entered on checkout page. I want to add fresh address each time even i am logged in and i have already default addresses.

Answer 1

Case 1: Always shows the address form

In order to archive this, you will have to tell Magento to not load the address-list. To do this, you can create a fallback to the Magento_Customer/js/model/address-list.js in your theme and changes its content to:

/**
 * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

/**
 * @api
 */
define([
    'ko',
], function (ko) {
    'use strict';

    return ko.observableArray([]);
});

To take away: Keep in mind it won't prevent Magento to keep saving new addresses to the customer account, it just tells to knockoutjs that the address-list is an empty array.

Case 2: Only shows the default addresses

In this do the fallback to Magento_Customer/js/model/customer-addresses.js

And change it's content to only push to the list items that default_billing or default_shipping is true.

/**
 * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

/**
 * @api
 */
define([
    'jquery',
    'ko',
    './customer/address'
], function ($, ko, Address) {
    'use strict';

    var isLoggedIn = ko.observable(window.isCustomerLoggedIn);

    return {
        /**
         * @return {Array}
         */
        getAddressItems: function () {
            var items = [],
                customerData = window.customerData;

            if (isLoggedIn()) {
                if (Object.keys(customerData).length) {
                    $.each(customerData.addresses, function (key, item) {
                        // Only push the default items
                        if (item.default_billing || item.default_shipping) {
                            items.push(new Address(item));
                        }
                    });
                }
            }

            return items;
        }
    };
});