Power Automate adds restore option for accidentally deleted flows
Power Automate 2026 Release Wave 1 lets owners and admins recover recently deleted flows starting in June 2026. The feature appears in the cloud flow designer and targets the common issue of losing work through mistaken deletions. Additional changes include an inline view for property values during flow editing. The licensing dashboard now centralizes consumption reports. Video logs record 60 seconds before failures in unattended desktop flows on virtual machines, and process intelligence supports custom KPIs.
Before the update, a deleted flow meant starting over from scratch on any connected SharePoint lists, Teams messages, or approval steps. Builders often spent hours recreating logic that had already been tested and adjusted over weeks. The restore option reduces that specific risk of total loss, yet it does nothing to prevent the more frequent pattern of flows running fine for months then failing with unhelpful error messages. Users still need their own monitoring in place to catch problems before colleagues notice missing notifications or stalled approvals.
Analysis
This restore feature is a decent safety net but does not make fragile flows any more reliable on their own. Use the June date as a hard deadline to add failure alerts to every production flow you own. Open your main SharePoint-triggered approval flow today and set the run-after condition on the final step to send a Teams message on failure.
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