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title: Manage Deleted Fields in Lightning Experience
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description: Restore or permanently delete a custom field in Lightning Experience.
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  - Salesforce Platform
  - Security
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# Manage Deleted Fields in Lightning Experience

Restore or permanently delete a custom field in Lightning Experience.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td>

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              <p>Available in: <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>,
                <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Developer</strong>, and
                <strong><strong>Database.com</strong></strong> Editions
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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Page Layouts and Lead Fields are not available in
                <strong>Database.com</strong>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50269e90 ">To restore deleted custom fields and relationships:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50269e90 ">Customize Application</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50269e90 ">To permanently delete custom fields or relationships:</td>

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1. From the Object Manager page, click the name of the custom object.
2. Click **Fields & Relationships**.
3. To see a list of soft deleted fields, click **Deleted Fields** at the top of the Custom Fields & Relationships page.
4. From the list of deleted fields, perform the following actions:
    1. To permanently remove the custom field and its data, click **Erase**.
    2. To restore the field and its data, click **Undelete**.
        
        If you undelete a custom field, manually restore attributes of the deleted field that weren’t automatically restored.

#### See Also

- [Manually Restore Attributes of Deleted Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.fields_manually_restore_attributes.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Custom fields consist of several attributes that provide additional information about the field. Some of these attributes are not restored automatically after a field is undeleted and must be restored manually.")