Edge Collections Discontinued: Where Your Saved Pages Went
Yes, Edge Collections is discontinued. Microsoft stopped new saves in spring 2026 and removed Collections in Edge 149 on June 4, 2026. Moved pages sit in Favorites folders, and personal accounts can open old collections at bing.com/saves.
Is Edge Collections discontinued?
Yes. Collections is no longer available starting with Microsoft Edge version 149, released on June 4, 2026, according to Microsoft's Collections support page. Microsoft gives one reason: it is retiring Collections "to better simplify our offerings".
The retirement came in steps. Edge release notes from March 2026 announced it. From April 2026, Edge showed a banner in the Collections pane and stopped accepting new items. Version 149 removed the feature, and the notes for that release say users had to export their content or move it to Favorites before updating (Edge release notes archive). If the Collections button is missing from your toolbar, this is why.
Where your Edge Collections went
It depends on what you chose before the update and which account you use.
- You clicked Move to Favorites: each collection became a folder in the root of your Favorites, named after the collection. Only saved web pages moved. Images, notes and other items that were not pages stayed behind.
- You use a personal Microsoft account: Microsoft says your previously saved collections can be opened at bing.com/saves, and you can still add items to Bing Collections from Bing.
- You use a work or school account: Microsoft offered the Export your data option only to these accounts. Microsoft's page does not say how they reach old Collections after version 149, so ask your IT admin.
Can you still export Edge Collections?
Not from Edge. The Collections pane is gone, and with it the Send to Excel and export options. If you made an Excel file or moved pages to Favorites before June 2026, that copy is what you have now. Microsoft did not offer export to personal accounts and pointed them to Bing Saves instead.
Favorites folders are now the main place your old pages live, so back them up before you start deleting. Our guide to cleaning up Microsoft Edge Favorites covers the backup and the folder cleanup.
What replaced Edge Collections?
Microsoft offers two places: Favorites, which it recommends, and Bing Saves for personal accounts. Neither holds the notes and images that Collections did. If your notes were the valuable part, use a notes app or a saving tool for new material, as the list under "Choose a tool by the job" below suggests.
The steps below help you find one page among everything that moved.
Begin with the clues you still have
Before opening every collection, write down what you remember:
- Website or company name
- A word from the title
- Page type, such as product, article or video
- The project that led to the save
- Rough save date
- Another page collected at the same time
Open the most likely folder in Favorites, or the matching collection in Bing Saves, and scan its titles and domains. Titles are usually stronger clues than thumbnails, which may change or resemble every other page from the same site.
When you find the card, open it before relying on it. A saved card points to a live webpage, and pages can move, change or disappear.
Search an exported collection
If you sent a collection to Excel or exported it before Edge 149, that file is still searchable. Open it and search for the strongest clue first, usually a domain, product, company, person or unusual word.
Try variations. The page title may contain a company while you remember the product; a shop may use a shortened brand in its domain. Search one term at a time because a long phrase can fail when the title does not match your wording exactly.
The export also provides a list outside Edge. It is useful as a backup, although it does not preserve the full reason each page was saved.
Why Collections were hard to search
A card usually contains a title, thumbnail and link. That works while context is fresh. Months later, you may remember a quiet hotel near a station while the card displays only the hotel's name, or a chair-repair guide while the title names a specific joint.
You must also remember the collection. A desk page could be under Office, Furniture, Renovation, Shopping or Ideas. More specific collections reduce scrolling but create more places to check. Renaming helps only if you can maintain a stable filing system.
The working list also remains inside the Edge experience, separate from PDFs, screenshots or notes kept elsewhere. It cannot search or cross-reference those sources as one archive.
Add context while the page is fresh
Collections notes did not move to Favorites. Wherever you save pages now, add a concrete note when the title does not explain the save:
- Compare this chair with the oak model
- Contains the refund instructions
- Send this recipe to Sam
- Explains the camera setting used indoors
Use words you expect to remember. Notes such as interesting, useful or read later preserve your reaction but not the page's purpose. This cannot repair old saves, but it makes new ones recognizable.
Choose a tool by the job
- Edge Favorites: The pages moved out of Collections, plus short active lists
- Instapaper or Readwise Reader: Material you intend to read
- Raindrop: Bookmarks that benefit from tags and previews
- OneNote, Notion or Apple Notes: Links that need your own surrounding notes
- dEssence: Selected saves you expect to retrieve by the idea you remember rather than the title
Every alternative still needs a naming or organization habit appropriate to its job. A recall tool should complement a backup, not replace one.
Move only what matters
Do not reorganize every old collection. Start with current work and information that would be difficult to replace.
Open an important folder, check for dead links, duplicates and pages that no longer matter, then move the keepers to the tool matching their purpose. Temporary shopping and research lists can stay in Favorites.
For future work, name folders after a real project or decision, and clear them out when that work ends so Favorites stays a working list rather than a permanent memory.
Frequently asked questions
Is Edge Collections discontinued?
Yes. Microsoft removed Collections in Edge 149, released June 4, 2026, after it stopped accepting new items in spring 2026.
Where did my Edge Collections go?
If you chose Move to Favorites, each collection is a folder in the root of Favorites with its saved pages. With a personal Microsoft account, old collections open at bing.com/saves.
Can I get my Edge Collections notes back?
Not from Favorites. Microsoft moved only saved web pages, not images or notes. Personal accounts can check Bing Saves, though Microsoft does not say whether notes appear there. Work and school accounts should ask their IT admin.
Can I search old collections by meaning?
No. Open the likely Favorites folder or Bing Saves collection and search one clue at a time.
Does exporting preserve the webpage?
No. It preserves a list; the destination page can still change or disappear.
Should every old collection be migrated?
No. Begin with current work and information that is difficult to replace.