Undo and keyboard shortcuts
Every change to your family can be undone, and on iPad and Mac almost everything has a keyboard shortcut.
Steps
Undo from the note
When you delete someone or a memory, or link two people, a note appears at the bottom, such as Deleted Chloe, with an Undo button. It stays for a few seconds.
Undo anything else
Every edit is one step you can undo: adding or deleting a person, a date, a photo, a relationship or a note. Shake your iPhone, or press ⌘Z on a keyboard. Press ⇧⌘Z to redo. On a Mac, the Edit menu names the step, such as Undo Delete Chloe.
Know how far back it goes
The undo history runs back to when you opened the app. It starts fresh when you switch trees, import a file, restore a backup, or quit the app.
Keyboard shortcuts
On a Mac, New Person, Record a Memory and the other commands under Everywhere are in the menu bar too. On iPad, they’re in the list of keyboard shortcuts.
| ⌘N | New Person |
| ⌘R | Record a Memory (about the person whose page is open) |
| ⌘I | Import GEDCOM File… |
| ⇧⌘D | Find Duplicates… |
| ⌘P | Print a Poster… (of the tree view on screen, or of the whole family from another tab) |
| ⌘F | Search (in Moments when it’s open, otherwise in the Album) |
| ⌘1 to ⌘4 | Album, Tree, Moments, Share |
| ⌘, | Settings… |
| ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z | Undo / Redo |
| Esc | Close a sheet |
| ↑ / ↓ | Select a parent / a child |
| ← / → | Previous / next person |
| Return | Open the selected person |
| Space | Show or hide the quick-add buttons |
| Esc | Deselect |
| ⌥⌘1 to ⌥⌘5 | Ancestors, Descendants, Hourglass, Fan, Everyone |
| ← / → | Previous / next photo (in the photo viewer) |
| ⌘Return | Done (while recording a memory) |
| ⌘S | Save Memory (after recording) |
Tips
- Choosing a different focus person isn’t an edit, so it isn’t in the undo history.
- Shake to Undo can be turned off in the iOS Settings app, under Accessibility, then Touch.
Still stuck? Email support@familytreesapp.com and a person will reply.