Can you recover deleted responses on Microsoft Forms?

[GraceLilley]

I have duplicated a form to edit and the responses from the original form were copied over. I have then deleted the responses off the new form and didn't realise this would delete the responses on the old form. Is there any way of restoring the responses?

[#2]

@GraceLilley unfortunately there is no way to recover deleted responses. It's one of the reasons that at my company we always use a flow in Power Automate to save responses to a SharePoint list as backup. There is a Forms uservoice request for recovering deleted responses which you can vote for here.

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

[#3]

@RobElliott Thanks for your response.

[#4]

Thanks for the information

[#5]

@RobElliottis this still current? - I made the same mistake that OP

[#6]

Yes, unfortunately this is still the situation.

[#7]

Thank you. That's very unfortunate.

[#8]

@GraceLilley 

I would like to add my vote to this link, especially since the MS website says that the responses are NOT deleted when you copy a form. That really should be clarified. Fortunately in my case my results have all been downloaded to Excel and are safe and sound on our servers.