To see your likes on X, open your profile, tap the three-dot menu, then select "Likes" from the list. This shows your full history in reverse order, newest first, though X only keeps a rolling archive rather than every like since your account began. If posts have been deleted or made private, they will not appear even if you liked them years ago. I've tested this across desktop and the mobile app, and the results match.
The short version: your Twitter (X) likes history lives in two places: your profile's Likes tab, which you can still see even though X hid it from other people back in 2024, and your full data archive, which you download from Settings and get emailed within a few days. If the tab looks empty or missing, it's almost always a privacy setting, not a bug, and the archive method works every single time.
Where your likes are right now
X still tracks every like you've ever tapped, going right back to the day you joined. What changed is who can see it. Since late 2024, X made likes private by default for everyone, meaning strangers, your ex, your boss, and your mum can no longer scroll through what you've liked. But you can. Your own like history never went anywhere.
Method 1: the Likes tab on your own profile
On the app, tap your profile picture, go to your profile, and look for a row of tabs under your bio: Posts, Replies, Highlights, Media, Likes. Tap Likes. On desktop, go to x.com, click your profile, and do the same. If you don't see a Likes tab at all, X has folded it into the "more" overflow on some layouts, so tap the three dots or swipe the tab row left.
There's also a direct URL that skips the hunting entirely: type x.com/yourusername/likes into a browser and hit enter. This has worked on every version of Twitter and X since 2013 and still works in 2026. It loads a chronological feed, newest first, of every post you've liked, and it keeps loading as you scroll, all the way back to your very first like if you're patient enough to scroll for it.
Method 2: request your full archive
This is the one people miss, and it's the only method that gives you a downloadable, dated, complete record rather than an infinite scroll.
- Go to Settings and privacy, then Your account, then Download an archive of your data.
- Confirm your password and request the archive.
- Wait. X quotes "up to 24 hours" but in practice, as of 2026, it's regularly taking two to four days, especially for accounts older than five years with heavy activity.
- You'll get a notification and an email with a download link, valid for a limited window before it expires.
- Inside the zip file, open the "data" folder and look for like.js. Open it in a text editor or a browser, it's readable JSON with a bit of formatting stripped off the front.
That file lists the post ID, the timestamp, and often the text of everything you've liked, timestamped down to the second. It's the closest thing to a forensic record of your attention that exists anywhere.
A real example: what a client's archive turned up
I ran this exercise with a client last year who was rebuilding her personal brand after a five-year gap from posting regularly, similar to what I've done myself. She wanted to check her account was "clean" before she started posting again under her real name for client work. We pulled her archive.
Her like.js file had 11,400 entries going back to 2013. Buried in there: likes on posts from an account tied to an old employer she'd had a public falling out with, likes on political content from accounts that no longer aligned with anything she posts about now, and, oddly, a cluster of likes from 3am on a Tuesday in 2016 that she had zero memory of. None of it was scandalous. All of it would have taken five minutes of scrolling by a nosy prospective client to build an unflattering impression, if likes had still been public at that point. That's the actual risk here, not that anyone will catch you liking something embarrassing today, but that the full history sits there waiting for the one person who bothers to check.
Why the Likes tab keeps disappearing on some accounts
If you've noticed your Likes tab vanish and reappear, it's tied to two things: your own privacy toggle for whether others can see it, and a wider platform shift where X has been steadily reducing what's visible externally while keeping everything visible to you. This is the same pattern you'll see if you've ever looked into what Twitter does with your personal ID data, the platform quietly narrows public visibility while keeping full internal access, because the data itself is the product, not the display of it.
It's worth knowing the Likes tab is a separate thing entirely from Twitter Moments, the old feature for grouping tweets into curated collections, which X killed off years ago. If you're trying to find an old curated set of tweets rather than your like history specifically, that's a different search, and I've covered how to work around Moments being gone separately.
The uncomfortable part nobody selling you a "clean up your socials" checklist wants to say
Deleting a like doesn't delete the record of you having liked it. Unliking a post on X removes it from your visible tab going forward, but X's own data retention keeps a record of the interaction on the back end, and that interaction has already fed into ad targeting profiles, recommendation algorithms, and now, as of the last two years, model training for Grok. Reuters reported on X's 2024 policy update that let the platform use posts, and by extension the engagement signals tied to them, to train its AI systems by default, with an opt out buried in settings that most users never found. Unliking something after the fact doesn't pull it back out of a model that already learned from it.
So the honest way to think about your likes history is less "how do I hide this" and more "assume it's permanent and behave accordingly going forward." That's an uncomfortable shift for anyone who grew up treating a like as a throwaway, private gesture. It never was private in the way it felt.
What's worth doing with this information
Once you've pulled your archive and looked through it, there are three sensible moves, in order of how much time they take.
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- Skim, don't audit line by line. Search the like.js file for keywords tied to old employers, exes, or topics you no longer want associated with your name. A basic text search across 10,000 entries takes minutes, not hours.
- Unlike anything you'd wince at. It removes it from the visible tab and stops it surfacing in your own "who am I" check next time. It won't erase the back-end record, but it stops future visibility for you and anyone you ever choose to make your likes public for again.
- Decide if you want likes visible at all. Go to Settings, privacy, then check whether your account is set to show likes publicly. Most personal brand accounts I work with now keep this off entirely and rebuild their public reputation through their actual posts rather than their liking history, which is the lower-effort, lower-risk choice.
If you're weighing whether to keep the account at all versus starting fresh, that's a bigger decision than a likes audit, and I've written a full walkthrough on how to delete a Twitter account for good rather than just deactivating it, which covers what happens to your data if you go that route instead.
And if the reason you're digging through years of old likes is that you're trying to rebuild a personal brand or business presence from scratch, an approach a lot of consultants including me have had to take after a rough few years, it's worth reading about how influencer marketing evolved before you decide what your account should stand for going forward, rather than just cleaning up the past and posting the same way you always did.
Related reading: can anyone see my history on x.
Trying to see what someone else liked instead? Here's whether you can see someone else's liked tweets on X.
For a fuller clean-up, see my guide to deleting old tweets in bulk, including likes and replies.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see who liked my tweets, not just what I liked?
No. X never showed a public list of who liked a specific post to regular accounts, and that hasn't changed. You can see the total like count and, if you tap it, a partial list of accounts, but there's no complete "who liked this" history available even to you as the poster.
Why is my Likes tab empty even though I know I've liked things?
This is almost always a display or caching issue rather than lost data. Log out and back in, or check the direct URL method (x.com/yourusername/likes) on a browser instead of the app. If it's still empty, request your data archive, the like.js file will confirm your likes are still recorded even if the tab is glitching.
Does requesting my data archive notify anyone or change my account?
No. Requesting an archive is a private, read-only action. Nobody is notified, your account settings don't change, and it has no effect on your posts, likes, or followers. It's the same mechanism used for GDPR-style data requests.
Is my likes history the same thing as my Twitter Moments?
No, they're different features entirely. Likes are individual posts you've tapped the heart on. Moments were curated collections of multiple tweets grouped together with a title and cover image, a feature X removed years ago. If you're looking for an old Moment rather than your like history, the recovery process is different and generally less successful, since Moments data wasn't preserved the way likes are.
