Extremely Frustrated: Lost my entire app due to confusing UI. We need a Recycle Bin for makers NOW!

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I am writing this because I am incredibly angry and frustrated with the current Power Apps interface.

Today, I lost hours of hard work on my app because I accidentally deleted the entire resource while simply trying to manage versions. The UI for "Unpublishing" and "Deleting" is poorly distinguished, leading to catastrophic mistakes for users.

It is absolutely unacceptable that there is no "Recycle Bin" accessible to the app creator. Why do I have to beg my IT department to run PowerShell commands just to recover my own work? This is a terrible user experience for a platform that claims to empower "Makers."

Microsoft, you must prioritize these two things immediately:

A user-accessible Recycle Bin in the web portal.
A much clearer UI that prevents accidental deletion of the entire app.

I have lost a full day of productivity because of this. This needs to be fixed!

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Vish WR 1,077 on at

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Agree with you, they should have a recycle bin to recover deleted apps. There is a workaround, refer to the link for reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powerapps.administration.powershell/get-adminrecoverdeletedpowerapp?view=pa-ps-latest

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The below articles are providing the information how to recover the deleted app.

How to Recover a Deleted App in Microsoft Power Apps Using MS Powershell

Restore the Deleted Power Automate Flows & Power Apps

✅If this helped, please Accept as Solution to help others ❤️ A Like is appreciated 🏷️ Tag @MS.Ragavendar for follow-ups.

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Adding this point @Vish WR / @MS.Ragavendar,

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https://www.michaelroth42.com/post/2024-11-11-recover-a-deleted-power-app/

https://community.powerplatform.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=a632bb08-e865-ef11-bfe2-0022482f19ad

There is a retention period for the environment try before that timeline. If the timeline is lapse you cannot be able to restore the app

There is also an idea portal available you can log your ideas on that - https://ideas.powerapps.com/d365community/forum/f1458c72-ae29-ed11-9db2-000d3a8c451e

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Thanks for sharing the idea portal , never thought about it

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A quick follow-up to see, does the suggestion worked for you or still you were looking for any other approaches or assistance.

If worked, please☑️Accept as Solution to help others 💙 A Like is appreciated ❓Tag @PowerPlatform Guy for any queries

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