A lot of people discovered their bookmarks were gone, panicked, and then found out they were not gone at all.
In May 2026 X reorganised where saved content lives. The Bookmarks entry that used to sit in the navigation menu was folded into a new History section, which now holds four things together: Bookmarks, Likes, Articles, and Long Videos. Nothing was deleted. It moved.
The same change took the Likes tab off the public profile, which is why so many people assumed something had been wiped. Both bookmarks and likes are still there, still private, still visible only to you, and still syncing across your devices.
Once you find the pile again, the second problem shows up. It is enormous, it is unsorted, and X still gives you no way to clear it except opening each saved post and removing it individually. For a collection built over two or three years, that is not a task anyone finishes.
With Circleboom Twitter, you can load your entire bookmark collection into a filterable table, export it as a CSV first, and then clear the whole thing or a filtered slice of it in one action.
Where Bookmarks and Likes Live Now
Worth being precise, because the rollout has been uneven and the answer depends on what you are using.
On iOS, tap your profile picture to open the side menu, choose History, then the Bookmarks tab. Likes sit in the tab next to it, with Articles and Long Videos alongside.
On Android, some app versions still show the older standalone Bookmarks entry in the menu. Newer versions follow the iOS layout with History as the parent. If you do not see History yet, check your app version.
On desktop web, the entry is in the left sidebar, sometimes under More depending on how much of the redesign has reached your account.
📌 A detail worth knowing before you start: the bookmark search bar is available on web and iOS but not yet on Android. If you plan to find specific saves before clearing the rest, do it on a device that has search.
None of this changes what a bookmark is. What bookmarks are on X still applies, bookmarks remain private, and nobody else can see them. If yours genuinely are not loading rather than just relocated, bookmarks not working covers the actual fault cases, and why you cannot see your likes covers the equivalent confusion on the other tab.
What Is Circleboom Twitter?
Circleboom is an Official X Enterprise Developer, working through X's official APIs.
- Loads every bookmark into one table with the post text, engagement metrics, and save date on each row
- Exports the whole collection as a CSV before anything is removed
- Filters by date range, keyword, language, media, post type, and six engagement count ranges
- Deletes everything at once, only a filtered selection, or a single row
- Handles the likes side separately when the History tab reminds you those need clearing too
X provides no bulk delete for bookmarks at all, which is the entire reason this workflow exists.
How to Delete Your Bookmark History on X
- Connect your X account to Circleboom Twitter and open the bookmarks manager. The page loads your saved posts and reports how many there are, which is usually the first surprise.
- Click "Sync My X Data for fresh insights" before doing anything else. The view shows a last updated date. If it is stale, recent saves will not be in the list and recent removals will still appear. Sync first, then work from an accurate list.
- Read the table before touching any buttons. Columns cover the account name, the post text with a link out to the original, impressions, likes, retweets, quotes, bookmark count, replies, and the creation date.
- Notice that everything is pre-selected. Every bookmark is checked by default, which is convenient for a full reset and dangerous if you only meant to clear part of it. Deselect before you delete, not after.
- Export first. This is not optional advice. The Export button on the same page produces a CSV with the post text, the link, the engagement metrics, and the date for every saved item. Bookmark deletion is not reversible, and there is no recovery path afterward.
- Understand why the export matters more than it looks. Some of the posts you saved have since been deleted by their authors. The CSV captures the text and the numbers as they were at export time. For those posts, the export is the only copy that will exist anywhere once your bookmark record is gone.
- Open Filter Options if you want a partial clear rather than a reset. You can filter by date range, keyword, username or hashtag, language, media presence, post type, and minimum or maximum counts for retweets, likes, replies, quotes, bookmarks, and impressions.
- Use the date filter for the most common case. Most people do not want an empty bookmark list, they want the last two years gone and the last two months kept. A date range does exactly that in one step.
- Use the keyword filter for a finished project. If a batch of saves belonged to research that is now complete, filtering on the relevant term clears that phase without touching anything else.
- Choose the right delete action. Delete All clears everything loaded. Delete Selected clears only what is checked. The red trash icon on any row removes that single bookmark.
- Check what you are about to remove one last time. Read the count on the Delete Selected button and make sure it matches what you intended. This is the last point at which the decision is reversible.
- Deal with likes as a separate job. They now sit in the same History section, which makes it feel like one cleanup, but bookmarks and likes are different records and clearing one does nothing to the other.
What Deleting Bookmarks Does Not Do
⚠️ It does not delete the original posts. Removing a bookmark removes your saved reference to a post. The post itself stays on X, owned by whoever wrote it, completely unaffected.
It does not clear your likes. The History tab bundles them visually, but they are separate records. Unliking every post you have ever liked is its own workflow, and the fastest way to delete likes at once, unliking on iPhone, deleting likes on iPhone, and deleting likes in bulk all cover that side. If you want a copy of what you liked first, downloading your likes is the equivalent of the bookmark export.
It does not tell anyone. Bookmarks were never public, so nobody sees them appear or disappear.
And it cannot be undone. Whether deleted bookmarks can be recovered and seeing deleted bookmarks both arrive at the same answer, which is why the export step comes before the delete step rather than after it.
Why X Makes This So Slow
The native flow is one saved post at a time. Open it, tap the bookmark icon, go back, repeat. There is no select all, no filter, no bulk action, and no way to clear by date.
That is manageable for a list of twenty. For a collection of several hundred built over years, it is an evening of tapping, and most people abandon it partway through and leave the pile where it is.
The deeper issue is that X gives you no way to manage a bookmark collection at all. No folders, no tags, no expiry, no sorting by when you saved something. A list of 500 items spanning three years and forty topics is not a reference system, it is an unsorted archive where finding one specific thing means scrolling past everything else.
Which is why the export then delete cycle is worth doing rather than just tolerating the pile. The CSV becomes the permanent archive, searchable in a spreadsheet in a way the app never allowed, and the in-app list resets to an empty inbox you can actually use again.
Removing a post from bookmarks without opening the bookmarks page, unbookmarking everything, and deleting bookmarks on X easily cover the manual options honestly enough that the comparison makes itself. If you would rather organise than clear, bookmark managers, searching your bookmarks, and extracting them are the alternative direction. Seeing which of your own posts got bookmarked most and auto reposting from bookmarked tweets put the collection to work instead of clearing it.
FAQ
Did X delete my bookmarks?
No. In May 2026 they were moved into the History section alongside Likes, Articles, and Long Videos. On iOS you reach them by tapping your profile picture, choosing History, then the Bookmarks tab. Everything you saved is still there.
Where did the Likes tab on my profile go?
Into the same History section. The standalone public Likes tab was removed from profiles as part of that change, which is why it looks like the tab vanished. Your likes are intact and private. Whether anyone can see someone's likes covers what changed about visibility.
Can I delete all my bookmarks at once on X?
Not in the app. X has no bulk delete for bookmarks, so the native option is removing them individually. Bulk clearing requires a tool that works through the API.
Does deleting a bookmark delete the post?
No. It removes your saved reference. The original post stays on X and its author is unaffected and unaware.
Can I get deleted bookmarks back?
No, which is why exporting first matters. Once the bookmark records are cleared there is no recovery path, and any posts that were later deleted by their authors exist only in your export.
Can I delete only old bookmarks?
Yes. Filter by date range and delete the selection rather than everything. The same works with a keyword filter if you want to clear a finished research phase.
Does clearing bookmarks also clear my likes?
No. They appear in the same History section but they are separate records and need separate cleanups.
Why can I not search my bookmarks on Android?
The bookmark search bar has been available on web and iOS but not yet on Android. If you need to find specific saves before a cleanup, do it from a browser or an iPhone.
Should I export before deleting?
Yes, every time. The CSV keeps the post text, link, engagement metrics, and date for everything you saved, which is the only version that survives the delete.
Final Thoughts
The bookmarks did not disappear. They moved into History along with likes, articles, and long videos, and the panic that followed was mostly about a menu change rather than any data loss.
What is worth doing once you have found them again is deciding whether the collection is still a tool or has quietly become a heap. To delete your bookmark history on X properly, export it first so nothing is genuinely lost, then filter to the part that has stopped being useful and clear it in one action instead of several hundred.
With Circleboom Twitter, you can pull every bookmark on X into one table, keep a permanent CSV copy of the lot, and reset the list to something you will actually open again.
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