X is quietly getting rid of saved searches feature completely

X seems to be getting rid of saved searches completely, and it looks like this change is here to stay. Over the past few days, some users have started noticing that they can no longer see their saved searches.

For those unaware, the feature would let people pin custom queries so they could jump back to them quickly without typing everything out each time. It’s worth pointing out that saved searches are separate from recent searches, which still work just fine.

That said, the feature had been fading away bit by bit for months, but this latest step feels final. Not only can you no longer add new ones, but everything you had saved before is simply gone on most platforms.

One user posted that they used the feature constantly and felt genuinely annoyed to lose it, especially since they relied on filters like -filter:replies to keep certain accounts clean and readable.

The Control Panel for Twitter account that noticed their saved searches were missing posted, “They finally killed saved searches, huh?”

Another person asked Grok for details, though the bot spat out somewhat inaccurate information, citing a help page that has had the text “Saved searches are currently not available on http://x.com/” for a couple of years, as noted in the Reddit post below.

Screenshot of the page currently for reference:

From what I have tested myself, the saved searches still show up on iOS right now, but they have disappeared from desktop and Android. Trying to save anything fresh does not work on any device. Even the official help page still walks Android users through the old steps, yet the ‘Save’ option is missing from the overflow menu.

From what I could gather, desktop users actually lost the ability to create new saved searches a couple of years back, so this has been a slow death rather than one big overnight decision. The real shift lately is that the searches people had kept from before are no longer visible on most platforms either.

Unsurprisingly, X hasn’t shared any other details about changes to the feature, apart from the one update it had made on the official help page a couple of years ago.

Saved searches mattered most to power users who built long, specific query strings to dig through the platform exactly the way they wanted. Taking the tool away without any replacement or even a quick heads-up feels careless.

If you’re having a Déjà vu moment, it’s because the platform just pulled the same move on X Pro users by yanking away the feature for Premium users with no warning or announcement ahead of time.

For a site that still pitches itself as the everything app, little details like this add up.

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