Why You Can't See Your Likes on Twitter Anymore

June 2024. That is the date behind almost every version of this question, and it explains why the answer feels so abrupt: nobody opted in, and no warning appeared in the app before the tab was gone.

Before that, hiding your likes was a paid feature. The toggle had been available to Premium subscribers since September 2023, and X has never published how many of them switched it on. In June 2024 the setting stopped being a setting. Likes became private for every account, and the Likes tab disappeared from every profile you are not signed in to. X framed the change as a privacy measure, arguing that a public record of what you liked shapes what people are willing to like.

Two things survived the change, and confusing them causes most of the panic. Like counts are still printed under posts, so the number stays public while the list of accounts behind it went private. And your own likes are still yours to browse. If you went looking for them and found nothing, the tab did not get deleted. It got harder to reach.

Where it sits depends on the app. On the web, open your profile and look at the row of tabs under your bio. The base row reads Posts, Replies, Media, Likes. Likes is last in that row, and on a narrow screen the row scrolls sideways rather than wrapping, so the tab can sit off the right edge of the display. Swipe the tab row left and it appears.

That row is longer for some accounts than others. Premium adds tabs of its own, Highlights and Articles, which push Likes further right and out of view on smaller screens, which is why two people on the same app version can have completely different experiences of "the tab is missing."

In the phone apps, the row may not hold Likes at all. In May 2026 X introduced a History section that gathers Bookmarks, Likes, Videos and Articles in one place, reached from the side menu where Bookmarks used to be; your liked posts are a sub-tab there. The rollout started on iOS and moved to other platforms in stages, so two devices on one account can differ.

In a browser, skip the hunt. Go straight to x.com/ your handle /likes, written without the spaces, and the page loads your liked posts in reverse order. Bookmark it once and you never have to find the tab again. X does not document that address, but it has kept working on the web. One catch worth knowing: it only works while you are signed in as that account. Logged out, or signed in as someone else, the same address shows you a profile with no Likes tab at all, which is exactly what the June 2024 change was built to do.

These look identical from the inside, so test rather than guess.

The fastest check takes about twenty seconds. Sign in on a second account, or borrow a friend's phone, and open any large public account. A private browser window is unreliable here, because X often stops signed-out visitors at a login prompt. Look at its tab row. No Likes tab anywhere is the normal state of X as of September 2026. If the same absence shows up on a stranger's profile and again on a friend's phone, the change is platform-wide.

An account-level problem announces itself differently. Tabs that load an error instead of content, a rate limit notice when you scroll, posts that will not send, or a banner about limited account features all point somewhere else. X keeps that information in Settings and privacy, under Your account, where an account status view, on builds that carry one, says whether anything has been restricted and offers an appeal if it has. Restrictions come with text. A tab that vanished quietly, with no error and no notice, belongs to the platform change instead.

Third-party clients and long-uncached web pages are the other common cause of a confusing screen. An old app build can still draw a Likes tab that leads nowhere, and a browser tab left open since last week can show a layout the site no longer serves. Force-quit the app, then compare against a fresh session before concluding anything.

The like count on a post is still public. Anyone can read it, and it is the same number it always was. What changed is the list: tapping that count no longer opens a roster of accounts for ordinary readers.

Post authors kept more than that. X's June 2024 announcement said authors would keep seeing who liked their own posts, and as of September 2026 that generally still holds, though the liker list has been reported inconsistently across web and mobile clients. Every like also arrives as a notification with a name attached, so the person you liked knows it was you. Privacy here runs in one direction: profile visitors lose the list, while the accounts whose posts you liked still see your name.

That asymmetry matters if you think of likes as a public signal, because the only part of the signal a stranger still reads is the number under the post. It is the reason the count keeps its weight even after the roster went private, and why anything aimed at that number, such as a service that adds likes to an individual post, operates on the post rather than on anything visible from a profile.

No. As of September 2026 there is no toggle in Settings and privacy, under Privacy and safety or anywhere else, that restores a public Likes tab on your profile. The old Premium option to hide likes is gone too, because hiding is now the only behavior available.

If you want people to know what you endorsed, the mechanics push you toward reposting or quoting instead, both of which appear on your profile and stay visible to anyone, and quoting has effects of its own on your like rate. Some sites still advertise that they can show you any user's likes. Treat those claims carefully. X no longer serves that list publicly, so a site advertising a live read of a stranger's likes cannot be getting it from the public profile.

X moved toward privacy while most of its neighbors kept their like lists open, which is why the habit of checking who liked something still works elsewhere and feels broken here.

Facebook is the clearest contrast. Reaction lists on public posts remain open, so tapping a count still shows you names, and the distinction between a plain like and the other reaction types carries information of its own, covered in this breakdown of how Facebook reactions differ from likes.

That visibility is also why a public like count still does work on Facebook that it can no longer do on X, a point argued in this piece on when a like count functions as a trust signal. If the worry is the opposite one, what you can still hide on X covers the controls that are left.

Next time a tab goes missing anywhere, run the same twenty-second test: open a stranger's profile from another account and see whether the thing is gone for them too.

Yes. As of September 2026, likes remain private on X, formerly Twitter, and the change has been in force since June 2024. Nobody's profile shows a public Likes tab to visitors. You can still browse your own likes while signed in, and like counts under posts are still visible to everyone. There is no announced plan to reverse it.

If it is your own post, you should still be able to: authors kept access to the list of accounts that liked their posts, and each like arrives as a named notification. If you are looking at someone else's post, the list is private and only the count is shown. An error message instead of a list points to a loading or account problem rather than the privacy change.

There is no setting for it. As of September 2026, Settings and privacy contains no option to restore a public Likes tab, and the old Premium toggle that once hid likes was retired when hiding became universal in June 2024. If you want something on your profile that others can see, repost or quote the post instead. Both stay publicly visible on your timeline.