How-to · Updated October 11, 2026
Restore a deleted GA4 property or account
Updated October 11, 2026
5 minutes
In GA4, open Admin, select Trash under Account, find the property and click Restore. A deleted property or account waits there for 35 days, then is purged for good. Restoring needs the Editor role at the account level, which the person who deleted it may not hold, and a data stream deleted on its own never comes back.
Before you start
- The Editor role or above at the account level. Google lets an Editor at the property level move a property to the Trash, but restoring it takes Editor at the account level. If you lack it, ask an account Administrator to restore it or to raise your role.
- The property's name, to find it in the Trash list.
- Less than 35 days since it was deleted. After that Google purges the property and everything under it.
- An Analytics account you can still open. The Trash sits under an account in Admin, and Google's older Universal Analytics help said that if every account had been deleted, a new account had to be created to reach the Trash; that may still be needed.
Find it in the Trash
A deleted property waits in the Trash under its account in Admin, listed with the date it will be permanently deleted.
- Sign in to Google Analytics and click Admin.
- Under Account, select Trash. Google says the Trash needs the Editor role on the account, so if you cannot open it, that role is what is missing.
- Find the property in the table, or type its name into the table's search field. Each row shows the date it will be permanently deleted, and to an Administrator, who moved it there.
- If the property is not listed, check you are in the account it belonged to. If it still is not there, open Account change history under Account (it needs the Editor role) and filter Action to Deleted. A deletion recorded with the Google Analytics System as the user means the 35 days ran out and the property is gone.
Restore it and what it held
Restoring brings back the property with its settings, users and product links, but not everything that was deleted separately.
- Select the property and click Restore.
- If you restored a whole account, look in the Trash again. A property that was moved to the Trash on its own before the account was deleted stays there; restore it separately.
- Open the property, then in Admin under Data collection and modification click Data streams. Restoring a property brings back the streams it had when it was trashed. A stream someone deleted on its own cannot be undeleted, so if your site's stream is missing, create a new one and put its measurement ID in the site's Google tag. The old stream's history does not return, and Google says integrations that relied on it, such as BigQuery Export, stop working.
A property restored this way keeps its filters, user permissions and links to other Google products, so its Google Ads link should not need setting up again.
Check it worked
Open Reports, then Realtime, and visit your own site in another tab. Google says realtime processing resumes within seconds of a restore, so your visit should show within a few minutes.
Core reports resume within an hour. Judge them the next day, and expect the days the property spent in the Trash to stay empty: Google says data is not processed while it is there and describes no way to fill them in.
Why the days in the Trash stay empty
Google says data is not processed while an account or property is in the Trash. Its help describes no way to fill those days in after a restore, so note the dates wherever the property's reports are read.
A tool or script deleted it
The Google Analytics Admin API moves a property to the Trash the same way, but it has no method to restore one. Google says a property deleted through the API can be restored only in the Trash screen, before it expires.
Find out who deleted it
An Administrator sees in the Trash who moved each item there, and an Editor or Administrator can look for the deletion, with its time, in Account change history. If the user shows as [deleted user], Google cannot retrieve the address because that Google account no longer exists.