There is an addon on anki computer version where you can hide a deck (so that it doesn’t appear on your frontpage. It does not delete the deck and you can unhide it when you want). the addon is called: Anki Hide Deck , and just makes the homepage A LOT cleaner when you have decks you don’t use but want to keep them.
It would be great if this was implemented in the mobile app!
Call the deck zHidden instead, and it will sort to the bottom of your Decks list, out of your way.
This has been proposed a number of times over the years, in each of the apps. [For starters, see the list of “Related topics” at the bottom of this page].
One reason it is unlikely to be taken up is that the order of decks in the decks list matters to the scheduler that puts together your study session. Having invisible decks would create a lot of unexpected behaviors.
For another reason, I’ll just quote one of the developers –