How to Undo Anything on Your iPhone or iPad

If you’re like me, and you’re probably not because I’m a weirdo, you are constantly flip-flopping on your stance on that whole Whales of War issue. And because of it, every time you start typing something on your iPhone or iPad, you rethink the whole thing and know you’re going to regret what you said so you need to undo it.

Or worse! You have just typed a whole manifesto about why refrigerators belong on every street corner and just like that, you hit one button accidentally and the whole thing disappears – GAHHH – how do you get it back?

Easy.

Three easy steps, actually. Because this is a tutorial and everything should be in steps.

1. Make an undoable mistake

First, make a mistake that you wish you could undo on your iPad or iPhone. (NOTE: This does not include hitting the SEND button.) Let’s say you have just lost your mind and decided to assassinate the President.

2. Shake, shake, shake

Let’s also say that you have come to your senses and decided not to assassinate the President. And you want to UNDO the addition of it to your ToDo list for the Day. You simply shake that device. Shake it like a Polaroid picture.

No, don’t shake it like a Polaroid picture. You might drop it. Shake it more like a rattle. Or in the case of an iPad, shake it like an Etch-a-Sketch. Shake it until you get the option to undo your horrible unpatriotic  mistake.

Here you have the option to undo what you did, or, you can flip-flop and decide that you want to assassinate the President after all by hitting the Cancel button. Your choice.

3. Select Undo or Cancel.

Personally, I think we should hold Apple accountable for allowing people to choose to assassinate the President. Shouldn’t Siri be ratting us out to the Secret Service or something? Don’t they have an app for assassinating the President by now? What kind of company enables this kind of behavior, I mean, really.

So, anyway, regardless of your murderous ways, that is how you undo stuff on your iPhone or iPad.