How to See Your Likes on X Now (They Moved)

You open X, the app that used to be Twitter, and the Likes tab is gone from your profile. It sat in the row of tabs under your header for years. In May 2026 X moved it, and on an iPhone your likes now live in a menu item called History.

Nothing was deleted. The posts you tapped the heart on are still in the list. What changed is the route, and the route depends on the device in your hand. X’s own help page still tells you to look on your profile, which is half the reason people get lost.

This post is the map. Where your likes are on each device, what to do when they are on none of them, who else can see them, and how to search the whole list. Then one thing the move says about what a like is for.

Where are your likes on X now?

Start with the device you are holding. X changed one platform on the record and has said nothing about the others, so the answer really is different on each.

Where to look

On an iPhone, the steps are short.

1. Open the X app and tap your profile picture in the top-left corner.
2. In the side menu, tap History. It sits where Bookmarks used to be.
3. Tap Likes in the row of tabs at the top. The other three are Bookmarks, Videos and Articles.
4. Scroll down to go further back.

On Android and the web, X has announced nothing. Android Headlines reported at launch that History was on the iOS app only. Some guides written since say it has reached Android and the web in stages, but none of them cites X, and X has published no help page for History. So check your profile first. If the Likes tab is still there, you have not been moved, and the list works the way it always did.

The awkward case is the one in between. Your profile has lost its Likes tab and History has not shown up to replace it. That is a gap in the rollout, not a deletion. Why the History tab is not showing goes through each platform and the four checks worth doing on an iPhone. If none of them works, the archive section below still gets you the list.

Why X moved the Likes tab

Likes have changed twice in two years, and the second change only makes sense after the first.

June 2024, likes go private: Until then anyone could open your profile, tap Likes, and scroll everything you had hearted. On June 12, 2024, X made likes private for every account. TIME’s report on the change describes the banner your own Likes page showed from then on, which read “Your likes are private. Only you can see them.” The tab stayed on your profile, but it became a tab only you could open.

May 2026, the tab leaves your profile: In early May, people started reporting that the Likes tab had vanished. PiunikaWeb tracked it from May 3 and reported that likes were being moved to a new area. On May 12, Nikita Bier, then X’s head of product, announced a History tab rolling out on iOS. His post said “Bookmarks, Long Videos, Articles and Likes will live here.”

History is the menu item that replaced Bookmarks in the iPhone app. It holds four lists. Bookmarks and Likes are the posts you chose. Videos and Articles fill themselves from long videos you watched and articles you read on X. The History tab guide goes through what each of the four records and what you can clear.

Here is the part that keeps people lost. As of October 14, 2026, X’s help page on likes still says you can view the posts you liked “from your profile page” in the Likes tab. On an iPhone that has History, that page describes a tab that is no longer there. The feature moved. The documentation did not.

Can you see someone else’s likes on X?

No. Since June 12, 2024, nobody can browse another account’s likes, and nobody can browse yours.

Two things are still public, and they are worth knowing before you like anything you would rather keep quiet.

• The like count: Every post shows how many likes it has. Your like adds one to that number.
• The author’s view: The person who wrote a post can still see who liked it. TIME’s report says the like totals and other metrics for your own posts still show up under notifications. So a like is private from everyone except the one person most likely to notice it.

That second point is the difference between a like and a bookmark. A bookmark sends no notification and shows no name, only a total count on the post. X bookmarks vs likes goes through what each one signals, and the X History privacy guide goes tab by tab through who can see your bookmarks, likes, videos and articles.

How to search your likes

X has not documented a search for the Likes list, and the guides that cover the tab describe none. So finding the post you liked last week means scrolling. Finding the one you liked in 2021 means scrolling for a long time.

There is a better route, and X built it for a different reason. Your X archive, the download X gives you of your own account data, includes your likes as a plain file you can search.

On the web, X’s archive help page gives these steps.

1. Click the More icon in the left sidebar and choose Your account.
2. Click Download an archive of your data and enter your password.
3. Verify with the code X sends to your email or phone, then click Request data.
4. Wait for the email. X says the archive can take a few days to prepare.
5. Download the .zip, unzip it, and open the data folder.

Inside it is a file called like.js. Open it in any text editor and press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac). Each like is one short entry.

One like.js entry

window.YTD.like.part0 = [
  {
    "like" : {
      "tweetId" : "1234567890123456789",
      "fullText" : "The text of the post you liked",
      "expandedUrl" : "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1234567890123456789"
    }
  }
]

Three fields, and they are enough. The text is what you search. The link opens the post, if it still exists. Open-source tools that read X archives, such as xf, read the same three fields from the same file.

Two limits to expect. The entries we checked carry no date, so the archive tells you what you liked but not when. And in an older archive we looked at, a post from a locked account came through as a line saying you are unable to view it, not its text.

Likes were never a save list

Here is the opinion, and it is the reason this post is longer than a click path.

X just told you what a like is. It filed Likes under a menu called History, next to the long videos you happened to watch. A like is a reaction X records. It was never built to be a place you keep things.

Plenty of people use it as one anyway, because the heart is right there and it is one tap. That habit has three problems, and the move makes all three easier to see.

1. You cannot search it. X has not documented a search or a filter for it, so an old like is a long scroll or an archive request away.
2. It keeps a link, not the post. Your like points at the original. When the author deletes the post or locks their account, the like points at nothing.
3. It is not private where it counts. The author is told, by name. For a post you want to keep but would rather not endorse, that is the wrong signal.

A bookmark fixes the third problem outright. It notifies nobody. It shares the second, because X’s bookmark list is also a list of links. Its keyword box, on the web and iOS, only matches words the post itself used. Where your bookmarks are, and how to search them covers the built-in route.

This is where a copy of your own earns its keep. ContextBolt is a Chrome extension we build. On x.com, it captures each X bookmark the moment you tap the bookmark icon, with the post’s text rather than a pointer to it, and tags it by topic. Bookmarks you make on your phone come across too, the next time you open your bookmarks page on x.com in Chrome. Search is instant and runs across the text and the topic tags together, so searching “hiring” can find a post filed under a hiring topic even when its text only said “we are growing the team”.

To be plain about it, ContextBolt does not read your likes. It captures bookmarks. So the switch is a habit, not a setting. When you want a post back later, tap the bookmark icon, not the heart. Basic is free up to 150 bookmarks. Pro is $6 a month, removes the cap, and adds cloud sync and an MCP endpoint, which is where semantic search over your saves lives for Claude and other AI agents.

Moving the keepers from likes to bookmarks

If years of likes are doing the job bookmarks should, you do not have to move all of them. Most likes were a reaction in the moment, and they can stay where they are.

1. Open your Likes list on whichever device shows it, using the table above.
2. Bookmark the posts you would want back. Open each one and tap the bookmark icon. It is one tap per post and nothing is sent to the author.
3. Use the archive to shortlist. If the list is long, search like.js for the topics you care about first, then open those posts from the link in each entry.
4. Unlike if you want to. A bookmarked post does not need the like as well.

From then on, the rule is simple. Heart a post to react to it. Bookmark it to keep it. If you use the extension, each bookmark you make on x.com in Chrome lands in your library with its text, next to your Reddit and LinkedIn saves.

The honest take

Your likes are fine. Nothing was lost, and on an iPhone they are one menu deeper than they used to be. On Android and the web, you may still be looking at the old tab.

What is worth noticing is how it happened. A tab millions of people used moved on one platform, announced in one post by one executive, while X’s help page kept pointing at the old spot. That will happen again.

So treat the heart as what X now says it is, a record of what you reacted to. Keep the posts you actually want somewhere you can search, and where the next menu change cannot move them.