TL;DR. In May , X renamed the mobile Bookmarks button to "History" and turned it into a hub with four tabs: Bookmarks, Likes, Videos, and Articles. Your saved posts are not gone. They live in the Bookmarks tab inside History. Bookmarks and Likes are things you saved on purpose; Videos and Articles fill up automatically from what you watch and read. The relabel changes where your bookmarks live, not the underlying problem that a long flat list is still hard to actually read.
Last reviewed June . This is a new and still-rolling-out change, so what you see depends on your platform and app version.
What happened to X bookmarks?
X renamed the Bookmarks button in the mobile menu to "History" and folded bookmarks into it as one of four tabs. This rolled out on iOS first, announced in mid-May , so if you opened the app and went looking for the familiar Bookmarks entry and couldn't find it, that's why. The feature wasn't removed. It was relabeled and grouped with other kinds of saved and viewed content.
The short version for anyone panicking: your bookmarks are safe. Every post you saved is still saved, in the same order, in the same account. What changed is the doorway you walk through to reach them. Instead of tapping "Bookmarks" in the left-side menu, you now tap "History," and then the Bookmarks tab inside it.
If you're on Android or the web and still see a plain Bookmarks label, you haven't been moved over yet. Platform rollouts on X are staggered, and this one started on iOS. Expect the History framing to reach the other surfaces over time, but there's no need to do anything in the meantime.
What is the X "History" tab?
The History tab on X is a single section that gathers four categories of content into separate tabs: Bookmarks, Likes, Videos, and Articles. The important distinction is how each tab gets filled.
Bookmarks and Likes are intentional. They contain things you actively chose to save: a post you bookmarked with the ribbon icon, or a post you tapped the heart on. Nothing lands in these two tabs unless you put it there.
Videos and Articles are automatic. According to X, these tabs populate based on what you watch and read on the platform, not on anything you deliberately saved. So the Videos tab becomes a record of clips you played, and the Articles tab becomes a record of long-form pieces you opened. You didn't bookmark them; X logged them for you.
The whole section is private. Nobody else can see your History, the same way nobody could see your old Bookmarks tab. That privacy point matters, because mixing your deliberate saves with an automatic log of your viewing behavior would otherwise feel exposing.
Where did my bookmarks go, exactly?
Your bookmarks are in the Bookmarks tab inside History. To get there on the X mobile app: open the left-side navigation menu (tap your profile picture or the menu icon), find "History" where "Bookmarks" used to be, tap it, then make sure you're on the Bookmarks tab. Your full saved list is there, newest first, exactly as before.
A few practical notes. First, update your app if History isn't showing up yet; the rollout is tied to recent app versions. Second, if you used Bookmark Folders (an X Premium feature), those still exist and are reached through the same Bookmarks tab. Third, nothing about the underlying bookmark data changed: no posts were deleted, reordered, or merged. Only the menu label and grouping changed.
Why did X make this change?
X is trying to become a place you return to, not just a place you scroll. Bundling your deliberate saves (Bookmarks, Likes) with an automatic log of what you watched and read (Videos, Articles) gives you more hooks to come back and "finish" content later. X's head of product, Nikita Bier, described the goal as helping people keep track of their favorite content and return to things they want to finish reading or watching.
There's a business logic underneath the product logic. Referral traffic from social platforms to outside publishers has been shrinking for years, and X wants long-form content published directly on the platform rather than linked out to someone else's site. The Articles tab is part of that push: if your saved reading lives on X, creators have a reason to publish their reading material on X too. The History reframe is as much about keeping attention on-platform as it is about helping you organize.
None of that is sinister, but it's worth understanding the incentive. The feature is designed to increase the number of reasons you open X and the amount of content you consume inside it. Whether that helps you actually process what you saved is a separate question, and it's the one that matters if your bookmarks have been piling up for years.
What the History tab does and doesn't fix for heavy bookmarkers
The History tab reorganizes the entrance to your saves. It does not fix the reason saved posts go unread. If you've ever opened your bookmarks tab, faced a wall of hundreds of saved posts with no summaries and no real structure, and quietly closed it again, the History relabel changes nothing about that experience. The Bookmarks tab inside History is still a flat, reverse-chronological list. Native search is still a basic keyword match on the web and iOS, and still entirely absent on Android.
In one way, History arguably makes the pile bigger, not smaller. The new auto-populated Videos and Articles tabs add two more streams of "stuff to get back to," collected without you deciding any of it was worth keeping. That's more to wade through, not less. The core friction is unchanged: saving is one tap and instant, and returning to read is effortful and easy to skip. We unpack why that asymmetry guarantees a backlog in why your Twitter bookmarks pile up.
So the honest framing is that History is a navigation change, not a reading solution. It tells you where your saved content is. It does not get you to actually read it.
How to actually use your saved content now
If the History rename made you realize how many bookmarks you've stockpiled and never revisited, the fix is the same as it was before the relabel: change the architecture so the reading happens automatically instead of relying on you to open the app and dig. There are three approaches that work, covered in depth in our complete guide to managing Twitter/X bookmarks: a disciplined weekly review ritual, a third-party tagging library, or a digest that delivers your saves to you on a schedule.
The digest approach is the one that fits the History problem most directly, because History's whole premise is "come back to X to find your stuff," and a digest inverts that: your stuff comes to you. Instead of opening the app and tapping into History to scroll a flat list, you get a summarized email of what you saved, on the schedule you pick, in the inbox you already check. If you want the full definition of that model, see what is a Twitter/X bookmark digest.
Bulkmark is our take on that approach, mentioned here for context rather than as a hard sell. It syncs your X bookmarks automatically, auto-tags every saved post by theme, sends a weekly AI-summarized digest, and lets you chat with your saved library to surface a half-remembered post. It exists precisely because finding your bookmarks (which is all the History tab really improves) was never the hard part. Reading them was.
Bottom line
The X History tab is a relabel and regrouping, not a loss. Your bookmarks are intact in the Bookmarks tab inside History, joined by your Likes and by auto-collected Videos and Articles. X built it to make the platform a save-it-for-later destination and to keep more content and attention on-platform.
For finding your saves, History is a modest improvement. For the real problem, which is turning a growing pile of saved posts into things you actually read, it does nothing, because it still asks you to come back and dig. If the rename was the moment you noticed how big that pile has gotten, that noticing is the useful part. The tab is just a new door on the same room.