How to see your likes on X (and who else can)

To see your likes on X (formerly Twitter), open your own profile and select the Likes tab, which sits to the right of Posts, Replies, Highlights and Media. That tab is visible only to you. Since June 2024 likes have been private on X, so nobody visiting your profile can browse it, and you cannot browse theirs.

That single change is why this question is confusing in 2026. Half the guides still ranking for it describe a Likes tab on other people's profiles that has not existed for over two years. Here is what the tab actually does now, what you keep, what you lost, and the one route that gets you a searchable copy of your like history.

#How to see your likes on X

Same path on every surface. Only the amount of scrolling it takes to reach the tab changes.

On the web at x.com

1. Select your profile picture or handle in the left sidebar to open Profile.
2. Look at the tab row under your header and bio: Posts, Replies, Highlights, Media, Likes.
3. Select Likes. Your liked posts load newest first.

If you do not see the Likes tab, check that you are on your own profile and not somebody else's. It is the last tab in the row, so a narrow browser window or a zoomed-in page can also push it out of view.

On the iOS and Android apps

1. Tap your avatar in the top left, then tap Profile. Tapping the avatar opens the side menu first, which is where most people get stuck.
2. Swipe the tab row left until Likes appears. On a phone the row does not fit, so the tab is off screen until you scroll it.
3. Tap Likes.

There is no Likes entry in Settings, and no separate history screen. If a walkthrough sends you to a History menu, it is describing an interface X does not have.

#Who can see your likes on X

Only you. On 11 June 2024 X rolled out private likes to every account, paid and free. X Engineering's statement at the time was blunt about the split: "You will still be able to see posts you have liked (but others cannot). Like count and other metrics for your own posts will still show up under notifications" (Social Media Today, 11 June 2024).

Three consequences that guides tend to skip:

There is no setting to reverse it. Private likes are not a toggle you can flip back. X had sold hidden likes as a Premium perk in 2023, then made it the default for everyone and removed the choice (Engadget, 11 June 2024).

The tab is gone from other profiles, not just hidden. You cannot see what a competitor, a founder you follow, or an ex-colleague has been liking. Any tool or article promising that view is describing something the platform stopped exposing.

Your likes are still an action other people feel. The author of a post you like gets the notification and can see your handle in their likers list. Private means "not browsable as a list on your profile", not "invisible".

That last point is worth sitting with if you use likes as a quiet bookmark. If your goal is to save something without touching the author's notifications, bookmarks on X are the right tool: they are genuinely silent and they have folders.

#Can you see who liked your post?

Yes, and this is the part of the old behaviour you kept. As the author you still get the full list for your own posts.

Open one of your posts so it fills the screen, then select the engagement summary under the post text. That opens a panel listing the accounts that reposted, quoted and liked it. Your notifications surface the same likes as they happen, which is usually the faster route for a recent post.

What you cannot do is see this for a post you did not write. Open a stranger's post and the like count is a number, not a link to a list of names.

If you are trying to work out who is paying attention to you more broadly, likes are a narrow signal anyway. Two related questions get asked constantly and both have firmer answers than people expect: can you see who viewed your X profile and how to see who unfollowed you.

#The Likes tab has no search. Use your archive instead

The biggest practical complaint about the Likes tab is not privacy, it is that it is an infinite scroll with no tools. No search box, no date filter, no sort, no way to act on more than one post at a time. If you liked something useful eight months ago, scrolling back to it is the only in-app option.

Requesting your data archive is what actually works here. Request it from Settings and privacy > Your account > Download an archive of your data, confirm your password, and wait. X quotes 24 hours; in practice it commonly runs to several days, and the download link expires about a week after it lands.

When the ZIP arrives, your liked posts are in the data folder as like.js. Open it in a text editor or a spreadsheet and you have something the tab never gave you: a file you can search with ctrl-F. Set expectations though. The like records are thin, essentially the post id and the text of the post, without the author handle or a date. You can find the wording you half remember and rebuild the URL from the id, but you cannot sort your likes by month or group them by account.

Two more archive notes worth knowing before you request one. The archive does include your likes, and it does not include your bookmarks (tweetxvault archive documentation), which surprises people who assumed bookmarks were the safer store. And the same download contains your full post history, which is far more useful than the likes file for anything strategic. We walk through the whole export in how to download your X archive.

#What about tools that claim to show anyone's likes?

Treat them as broken or dishonest. The public like history that those tools were built on is not exposed by X anymore, so there is no source for them to read. A tool can show you your own likes if you connect your account, which is a convenience wrapper on data you already have, not access to anything hidden.

Liking at volume is a separate question and it carries real account risk. X's Automation Rules prohibit bulk, aggressive or automated engagement, and accounts get actioned for it. X does not publish a daily like limit, and the 1,000-a-day figure circulating in guides comes from a version of its limits page that no longer exists; we cover what is and is not documented in X daily limits. Nobody outside X knows the real threshold, which is exactly why bulk liking is a bad bet.

If you want engagement on X to compound without that exposure, the durable version is replying with something worth reading, consistently, to accounts in your niche. That is the job X-Autopilot is built for: it runs on your own Mac in your own browser session rather than from a shared cloud account, which is a smaller detection surface than server-side tools, not a guarantee of safety. Automating engagement through a browser is a gray area rather than a sanctioned API path, and no tool can remove account risk.

#The short answer, once more

Your likes on X are yours to see and nobody else's to browse. Open your profile, select Likes, and there they are. If you need to search them, the archive is the only real option, and if you want a private save that does not ping the author, use bookmarks. Anything promising you a window into someone else's likes in 2026 is selling a feature the platform removed in 2024.

If you are auditing your own account more generally, the neighbouring guides are how to make your X account private and reading your X analytics.