# Undo and delete tasks > Every change and delete in Prior can be undone for a few seconds. How the Undo toast and shortcut work, what a delete does, and what you cannot get back. Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/undo-and-delete/ Last updated: 2026-11-05 Prior does not ask "Are you sure?". It does the action and offers **Undo** instead, so you keep moving and can still take it back. ## Undo a change After most actions, a toast appears at the bottom right, or above the tab bar on a phone, with an **Undo** button. It stays for about six and a half seconds, and the countdown pauses while your pointer or keyboard focus is on it. - Click **Undo**, or press Cmd Z or Ctrl Z. The shortcut runs the newest Undo on screen. While you type in a field it keeps undoing your text instead. - You can undo completing a task, changing a date, a priority or a project, moving it between quadrants, setting a follow-up, any bulk action, and deleting. - Undoing a completion reopens the task, takes back its XP and removes the next occurrence of a repeating task. - After a bulk action, Undo puts back only the fields that action changed. Edits you made since, or that a collaborator made, stay. Up to three toasts show at once. Each Undo takes back its own action. ## Delete a task Delete from a task's menu with **Delete task**, with Backspace or Delete on a focused row, with **Delete task** in the side panel, or with **Delete** in the selection bar. You see "Task deleted" or "3 tasks deleted" and **Undo**. The task disappears from your lists at once, but Prior does not write the delete yet. It waits out the Undo window first, and a delete only happens once the toast is gone. Hovering the toast keeps the delete on hold. What happens next: - If you close the window or the tab, or sign out, while a delete is waiting, Prior writes it right away and you can no longer undo it. - After the window the task is deleted, and the deletion syncs to your other devices. - Prior has no trash folder. A deleted task cannot be restored from the app, so if you might need the task again, complete it instead. Completed tasks wait in the folded **Done** row and a click on their circle reopens them. ## The same rule elsewhere Projects, areas and habits wait for their Undo window too. Deleting a project hides it and its tasks until the window ends. A shared project is left from its share dialog, not deleted. Archiving or deleting a message in the mail inbox works the same way. ## Good to know - Closing the new task sheet without saving keeps your words as a draft for seven days. Editing a task with unsaved changes asks you to press Esc again before it closes. See [Create a task](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/create-a-task/). - Changes you make while offline can be undone the same way. See [Offline use and sync](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/offline-and-sync/). - To keep a copy of your work outside Prior, see [Export your data](https://priortasks.com/docs/account/export-your-data/).