Where Does Saved Posts Go in LinkedIn

Two lists, one menu, and neither of them is where people look first. Saving is also the one interaction the author never sees.

Updated October 2026

Where the list is

On desktop, the left column of the home feed has My items. On the phone, open your profile menu and look for the same entry.

Inside it, the tabs separate saved posts, saved jobs and other saved items such as courses.

The list is ordered by when you saved things, not by when they were published.

There is no folder structure and no tagging, which is why long lists become useless after a few months.

On mobile the entry moved more than once, which is why half the advice on this is wrong. Open your own profile photo to reach the menu, and look for My items there rather than in the settings area, where it has never lived.

Saving and unsaving

The save control is in the menu on any post, next to report and copy link.

Saving a job uses the save control on the job page, and those land in the jobs tab.

Unsaving removes the entry immediately and tells nobody.

Saving the same post twice is not possible; the control toggles.

Saving is also the safe way to keep something you would rather not be seen engaging with publicly, such as a competitor's announcement, a salary discussion or a job ad at your own company. A like appears in other people's feeds and in your activity; a save appears nowhere. For anyone using LinkedIn while employed, that difference is the whole reason the feature is worth knowing about.

Why a saved post vanished

The author deleted it. The entry disappears rather than being greyed out.

The author's account was closed or restricted, which removes their content from view.

The post was in a group you left, or by someone who blocked you, both of which cut your access to it.

None of these are bugs, and none of them are recoverable from your side.

Which interactions feed distribution and which stay private is covered in what engagement does to a post, and the other list that hides in the composer is explained in the scheduled post queue.

Keeping something you actually need

My items is a bookmark list rather than an archive, and the difference becomes obvious at the worst moment.

The list stores a pointer. If the author deletes the post, edits it beyond recognition, or closes their account, your entry changes or disappears without a word.

For anything you will cite, quote or act on, copy the text somewhere you control, with the author's name and the date. Ten seconds now against a dead link later.

For research, note why you saved it. A list of forty posts with no context is a list nobody revisits.

And prune it. The absence of folders means a long list stops being searchable in practice, which is the real reason saved items go unread rather than any fault in the feature.

Saved jobs behave differently

A saved job keeps its own status: it can show as closed or no longer accepting applications rather than disappearing.

Applications you submitted live under the jobs area rather than under saved, which is a separate list worth knowing about.

Job alerts are a third thing again, and they generate email rather than entries.

Saving a job does not notify the recruiter and is not part of your application.

Applications are a third list again, under the jobs area, and it is the one worth checking weekly during a search. It records which roles you applied to and when, which is the only reliable defense against applying twice to the same company through two different routes. Recruiters see that duplication, and it reads as a candidate who is not paying attention rather than one who is keen.

From the other side of the same screen, posting a job yourself covers the free listing, what promotion changes, and why applications stop arriving after a few days.

Using saves as a reading list

Because saving is silent and reversible, it works well as a triage step: save in the feed, read later, unsave when done.

For anything you will need in six months, copy the content out. The list is a pointer, not an archive.

If you save for research, note why in a document. The list gives you no context beyond the post itself.

And periodically empty it. An unmanaged save list is where good posts go to be forgotten.

For your own posts, the number that decides whether anybody saves them in the first place is the early engagement. Likes on a LinkedIn post acts on that window, and the other LinkedIn services we carry are listed in one place.

Questions people ask about saved items