I accidentally deleted a task we had finished with hundreds of subtasks and didn't realize it was deleted until 20+ days in (they permanently delete in 30 days). My best guess as to how this happened is that I hit Delete to remove it from my Favorites instead of the star because I saw this happen on another task and caught it right away and restored it from my trash. For the one accidentally deleted over 20 days prior, I couldn't even see it in my trash. There must be a limit as to how many tasks show up there and not just "all" from the past 30 days. ClickUp support was able to find it and restore it for me, but if it had been a week later, I don't think there would have been a happy ending to this task. If a popup had come up saying "Are you sure you want to delete this TASK and its subtasks?", that would have caught my attention and prevented this. I agree with trying to strike a balance between being safe and annoying people. These popups are normally annoying, but I'd still prefer to deal with them than the panic that set in seeing that huge task gone.

Now that this is live how do I turn it OFF????? There is no way I can be efficient while cleaning up my account by having to type the name of each folder as I go.

It is too easy to delete critical documents in ClickUp - it's happened in our Workspace before... by an Admin. At the very least there should be a dialog asking "Are you sure?" with yes/no options, but yes requiring an additional step (such as typing in DELETE) would be even better.

I suggest that it would be possible to select this option for a certain level of users who could then select specific areas lists or tasks individually. This feature would not only secure not deleting actual tasks, but also tasks that are type-defined eg. Companies or Contacts or any other "single source of truth" task types or permanent task types if you will.

Notifications/Confirmation for delete on everything would be a huge help, lists, tasks, documents etc

The same is with a View / List etc, when you click delete by mistake, it is deleted without notice.

Thanks everyone for the activity on this thread! We love your feedback and hearing your use cases!

We have a ton of users in our lists and when things are deleted, there's no obvious way of knowing. A confirmation like this would prevent a lot of errors. Would also be nice to have confirmation for moving tasks because things get turned into subtasks by accident a lot too, due to drag and drop functionality.

I’d recommend the possibility of adding notifications for deletion. There are a fair amount that I delete because they’re not needed any longer, but confirmation would be tedious. However, as Operations Manager, I want to be sure that a team member isn’t deleting important tasks (purposefully or accidentally).

I definitely wouldn't want that much friction when deleting a task, particularly given that deleted tasks can easily be retrieved from the trash for 30 days.