Ultra Power / The trash

A trash for ChatGPT

ChatGPT has no trash. Delete a conversation there and it is gone in that second, with no undo for you and none for OpenAI support either. Ultra Power puts a trash in front of that: chats you delete leave your list straight away, sit in a list you can read, and come back with one click. 12 hours on the free plan, 7 days on Pro.

What ChatGPT actually does when you delete

It deletes. Ask its own backend for a conversation you removed a minute ago and it answers 404 conversation_deleted, can_retry false. That is the response, not our reading of a policy page. There is no recycle bin, no 30 day window, no support ticket that brings it back.

Which is fine when you meant it, and expensive the one time you did not. Most people find that out while clearing a hundred old chats and only then noticing the one with the contract draft in it.

What the trash does instead

1. 1
   Delete

   Tick the chats you want gone and click Move to trash. They disappear from your ChatGPT list immediately, so the clean-up feels done.

2. 2
   Change your mind

   Click Trash in the sidebar toolbar. Every deleted chat is listed by title, with how long ago you deleted it and how long is left.

3. 3
   Restore

   Restore puts one chat back. Tick several and restore the set. Or hit Undo in the toolbar to reverse the whole batch you just ran, even after a page reload.

How long you get

When the window closes, the extension deletes those chats from ChatGPT for good, on its own. One thing to know: that purge needs the extension installed and enabled. Turn it off and nothing is permanently deleted, the chats stay archived, and the next run catches up.

Why the undo survives a reload

A bulk run does not happen in the page. It runs in the extension's background worker, and the snapshot of what it touched is written to your browser's storage before the first chat moves. So the Undo button is still there after you switch tabs, close the tab, or reload. The toast that offered it is not the only way back, which matters, because a toast is gone in four seconds and a regret takes longer than that.

Everything here is local. Titles, ids, the trash and the undo snapshots are stored in your browser. No account, no server of ours, no telemetry. The only network traffic is the extension calling chatgpt.com on your behalf, exactly as the site would.