Microsoft is quietly killing one of the best features in Edge, and if you’ve ever relied on it to stay organized online, this one hurts. Collections, the built-in tool that lets you save, group, and revisit webpages in a clean, visual way, is officially being retired.
Edge has started showing a warning telling users to move or export their Collections before the feature is removed, which is usually the clearest sign that the end is near. Introduced with Chromium-based Edge in 2020, Collections allow you to save webpages, images, and notes into grouped cards that sync across devices.
You can use it for research, shopping lists, trip planning, or simply keeping track of things you want to read later. It was visual, flexible, and surprisingly powerful, which is why many users grew attached to it.
What’s changing and what you should do now
According to the warning spotted by Windows Latest in Edge’s Dev channel, Collections will be removed in a future update, though Microsoft hasn’t shared an exact date. When that happens, users will have two options to save their data.
One is to move Collections into Favorites, which creates a folder called “CollectionsExport.” That keeps your links, but images and notes are left behind. The other option is to export everything as a CSV file saved to your Documents folder, which works as a backup but isn’t very useful for everyday browsing.
It’s also unclear whether Collections will disappear from Edge on mobile. Microsoft hasn’t explained why it’s retiring Collections, but this move follows a pattern.
The company is retiring apps like Microsoft Lens on mobile and ending support for the lightweight Windows 11 SE education edition, even as it quietly rolls out quality-of-life fixes in apps like Word by making hyperlinking faster and smoother.
If you use Collections, now’s the time to open Edge and export your data. Once it’s gone, there’s no built-in replacement, and that’s a real loss for anyone who liked their browser doing a little more than just loading pages.