Stone the crows! Heavens to Betsy! Insert different phrases that one makes use of to specific full shock, as a result of X is including what seems like a genuinely helpful characteristic. A brand new historical past tab shall be residence to customers’ bookmarks and likes, in addition to articles and lengthy movies that they view on the platform.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the tab is accessible on the iOS app beginning at present. “The Timeline strikes quick, so we hope this creates a greater place for catching up on long-form content material,” Bier added.
In the present day we’re rolling out a brand new Historical past tab on iOS that can assist you maintain observe of all of your favourite content material on X.
Bookmarks, Lengthy Movies, Articles and Likes will stay right here — so you may at all times come again and proceed watching or studying.
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— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) May 12, 2026
As TechCrunch notes, X has changed the outdated bookmarks tab with the historical past one. Every part that seems there’ll seemingly stay non-public (X reduced the visibility of likes a few years in the past). Bookmarks and likes are tweets that customers determine to save lots of, whereas the video and article sections pull in content material that they see on X.
For these nonetheless utilizing X, it does appear to be a useful approach to come again to attention-grabbing issues that they see whereas scrolling and do not essentially have the time or focus to take a look at correctly. Nonetheless, X can not help however discover a approach to be irritating — on the picture of the historical past tab that Bier shared, the time on the iPhone is about to 4:20. Given the abject state of X total, the tab would possibly really feel a bit like discovering a refreshing, ice-cold bottle of water within the deepest pit of hell.
