Trash & Restore
A 30-day safety net for deleted transactions, and the one kind it does not cover.
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Why Deleted Transactions Go Here
Accidental taps happen, bulk edits go sideways, and a slip of the finger should not cost you data you spent time recording. So a deleted transaction moves to Recently Deleted and waits.
While it is there it is excluded from totals, budgets, charts and reports - it behaves as if it is gone. Restoring puts it back exactly where it was, with the same details it had.
A split transaction comes back split
Splits are deleted with their parent and restored with it, so a transaction you had divided across three budgets returns divided across the same three. There is nothing to rebuild by hand.
Only transactions land here
Deleting a goal removes it permanently. Plenty of other things are archived instead of deleted - budgets, bills, income sources, and on the net worth side accounts, liabilities, manual assets, properties, vehicles and cryptocurrency. Archiving keeps them out of your day-to-day view without destroying their history, and none of them appear in Recently Deleted. See Archiving.
So deleting an account is not your only option - if you are closing one down rather than correcting a mistake, archive it instead and the transactions attached to it stay put.
Archiving a budget is not fully reversible
It is the one archive that loses something. Archiving a budget unlinks its categories, switches rollover off, and discards any balance it had carried forward. Restoring it clears the archive and nothing else, so you get a plain budget back and the carryover does not return.
The confirmation you see in the app mentions the categories but not the carryover, so treat this, rather than that dialog, as the full list. If the carried balance matters, note the figure before you archive. See Budget Rollover.
What Does and Does Not Land Here
| Transaction came from | Deleted on its own | Deleted in a multi-select |
|---|---|---|
| You added it | Recoverable | Recoverable |
| Synced from a bank | Recoverable | Recoverable |
| A CSV import | Permanent | Permanent |
How you deleted something makes no difference. The only thing that matters is where the transaction came from, and imported rows are the single exception - they have no trash at all, so clearing out a batch of those is final. Check the selection first. See Bulk Editing.
Restoring a Transaction
- Open Settings → Data & Privacy → Recently Deleted.
- Find the transaction. Each row shows when it was deleted and a short summary.
- Tap Restore.
It returns to its original location with all its details intact, reappears in its account’s transaction list, and is counted in budgets and totals again.
Permanent Delete
From the same card you can permanently delete individual transactions, or use Empty Trash to clear the list entirely.
Watch out
Permanent deletion is final. There is no further undo and the data is removed from our systems. If you have any doubt, leave the transaction where it is - there is nothing to gain by clearing it early, and it will go on its own.
Retention
Deleted transactions are kept for 30 days, then removed automatically by a daily purge. That window gives you time to recover a mistake without letting trashed data pile up indefinitely.
After 30 days it is gone for good, so it is worth a quick scan of the list whenever you have done a large cleanup.
Recovering From a Bulk Mistake
Tip
If you bulk-deleted a batch by accident, go straight to Recently Deleted and restore each affected transaction. Your spending totals, budgets and charts recompute as they return, so there is nothing to re-enter by hand.
Any imported rows in that batch will not be there, so check what is missing while you still remember what you selected. Everything else will be waiting.