If the Bookmarks button has gone from your X app, nothing has been deleted. It was renamed. The short answer is that your saved posts now sit inside a section called History, and everything you bookmarked is still there under the first tab.
Why did Bookmarks turn into History?
In May 2026 X replaced the standalone Bookmarks entry in the mobile side menu with a hub called History. It gathers four things in one place: Bookmarks, Likes, Videos you have watched and Articles you have read. TechCrunch reported the launch when X's head of product announced it.
The change is cosmetic as far as your bookmarks go. They were not moved into Likes, they were not merged with anything, and the list is the same list. Only the door changed.
Two of those tabs are new in a way the others are not, and it is worth knowing which. Bookmarks and Likes are things you chose. Videos and Articles fill up on their own, from what you watched and read. If seeing that history recorded is uncomfortable, that is a separate question from where your bookmarks went, and X states the section is private to you.
Finding your bookmarks now
- Open the side menu by tapping your profile picture in the top corner of the X app.
- Tap History where Bookmarks used to be.
- Choose the Bookmarks tab. Your saved posts are there, newest first, exactly as before.
On the web version, the bookmarks page is unchanged and reachable from the same place in the left hand navigation. If you mostly save on your phone and mostly search on a laptop, the web is still the better place to go looking.
Other reasons a Twitter bookmark disappears
If a specific post has gone rather than the whole section, the cause is usually one of these.
The post was deleted. A bookmark is a pointer, not a copy. When the author removes a post, your bookmark loses its target. There is no version of it kept on your side to fall back on.
The account was suspended, deleted, or made private. Same outcome, and it takes every post from that account with it, including ones you saved years ago.
Everything went at once. X's own help page describes a control at the top of your bookmarks timeline that removes all of your bookmarks in one action. It is a menu item, not a buried setting, and there is nothing to undo it afterwards. If your list is empty rather than short, this is the likeliest explanation.
You have not scrolled far enough. X loads bookmarks in batches as you move down the page. A post from three years ago is not missing, it is simply below several hundred others that have to load first.
Why a bookmarks tool shows fewer than you have
This one confuses people who use a third-party app and find half their bookmarks absent from it.
X's developer interface hands back only the 800 most recent bookmarks. Any tool built on the official route inherits that ceiling, regardless of how many you actually have. Tools that read your bookmarks page as it loads in your own browser are not bound by it, but they can only see what has actually been loaded, which is why every one of them tells you to scroll.
So a short import is usually not a bug. It is either the 800 ceiling, or a page you stopped scrolling too early.
Keeping a copy that X cannot change
Every cause above except the deleted posts is recoverable by looking harder. The deleted ones are not, and no setting protects you from them afterwards. The only defence is holding your own copy before anything happens.
X's official data archive will not do it. It covers your posts, messages, media and follower lists, and bookmarks are not part of it. The practical options are a free browser extension that scrolls your bookmarks page and hands you a CSV, which we covered in keeping your X bookmarks, or an app that files them as you go.
Muse is the second kind. Turn on X Bookmarks in its settings and in its browser extension, then open your bookmarks and scroll: posts file themselves into your library as the page loads them. Muse makes no request to X, it reads the data your own browser was already handed, so there is no account to connect and no rate limit to hit.
What survives afterwards is worth being precise about. A post with pictures becomes a real image file on your disk at full size, so the picture is yours whether or not the post lasts. A text-only post becomes a link carrying the post's opening words as its title. Muse does not archive the full text of a post, so it saves your pictures rather than your threads.
The short version
Your bookmarks are under History, first tab, and nothing was lost in the rename. Posts that vanished individually were deleted at the source and cannot be brought back. If either of those bothers you enough to be reading this, that is a reasonable moment to start keeping your own copy.
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