Trash & Restore

When you delete a transaction in Cadence, it doesn’t vanish straight away. It moves to Recently Deleted, where it sits in an inactive state until you decide what to do with it. The point is simple: accidental taps happen, bulk edits go sideways, and a slip of the finger should never cost you data you spent time recording.

Recently Deleted holds transactions only. Deleting an account or a goal removes it permanently, and budgets and income are archived rather than trashed - so those don’t appear here. While a transaction is in Recently Deleted, it’s excluded from totals, budgets, charts, and reports. It behaves as if it’s gone, but the record is preserved in case you want it back. Restoring puts it exactly where it was, with the same details it had before deletion.

Recently Deleted sits inside your Data & Privacy settings:

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Data & Privacy.
3. Open Recently Deleted.

The Recently Deleted card lists your recently deleted transactions, each showing when it was deleted and a short summary so you can recognise it at a glance.

To recover something from Recently Deleted:

1. Open Settings → Data & Privacy → Recently Deleted.
2. Find the transaction in the list.
3. Tap Restore.

The transaction returns to its original location with all its details intact. It reappears in its account’s transaction list and is counted in budgets and totals again.

From the Recently Deleted card you can also permanently delete individual transactions or use Empty Trash to clear the list entirely. Permanent deletion is final - there is no further undo, and the data is removed from our systems. Use this when you’re certain you don’t need the transaction, for example after confirming a batch of duplicates is no longer needed.

If you have any doubt, leave the transaction where it is. There is no need to act - you can always restore it or permanently delete it later.

Deleted transactions are kept for 30 days, then automatically and permanently removed by a daily purge - the in-app card notes that items are automatically removed after 30 days. This window gives you time to recover anything deleted by mistake without letting trashed data pile up indefinitely.

If you want something back, restore it before the 30 days are up. After that the transaction is gone for good, so it’s worth a quick scan of the list whenever you’ve done a large cleanup.