Editing, Deleting, and Fixing Mistakes

Nothing you do here is permanent, so relax. Every change can be undone, and anything you delete can be brought back for 30 days. This guide covers the everyday fixes: removing people, changing or deleting connections, moving children to the right parents, and reversing an AI change you didn't want.

Deleting a person

1. Make sure the Select tool is active (the arrow, in the bottom-center toolbar)
2. Click the person's symbol once to select it
3. Press Delete or Backspace on your keyboard

The person and any lines attached to them are removed. Prefer typing? Open the AI assistant (the purple sparkle button on the right edge) and say something like "delete Sarah" — it does the same thing.

Removing a connection

Sometimes the people are right but a line between them is wrong. Lines are their own objects, so you can delete a line without touching the people it connects.

1. Click directly on the line you want to remove to select it
2. Press Delete or Backspace

If the line is hard to hit because symbols are close together, zoom in first — that gives you a bigger target.

Changing a relationship type

You usually don't need to delete a line just because it's the wrong kind. Say it's marked as a marriage but they're actually dating — her boyfriend, not her husband. Just change the line instead of rebuilding it.

1. Click the line between the two people to select it
2. Its relationship-type options appear in the inspector panel on the side
3. Choose the type you want — for example, switch Married to Dating

The same trick works for parent-child lines. Click a parent-child line and you can switch it between Biological, Adopted, Foster, Step, Surrogate, Sperm donor, or Egg donor.

Children under the wrong parents

If a child is connected to the wrong parents, you don't start over — you swap the line. Do it in two quick steps:

1. Remove the wrong link: click the parent-child line running to the wrong parent and press Delete
2. Add the correct one: pick the line tool, click the correct parent's symbol, then click the child's symbol. When the picker appears, choose the parent-child type (usually Biological)

Click the symbols themselves, not the name labels underneath. The child stays put — only which parents they hang from changes.

Undoing a wrong AI change

If the AI assistant made a change you didn't mean, you have two clean ways to reverse it:

• Undo last AI change — open the AI sidebar and click this button. It rolls back the assistant's most recent edit in one move, which is the safest option after an AI request goes sideways.
• Undo in the top bar — the general undo (and redo) covers everything, including AI edits, manual edits, and layout changes. Tap it as many times as you need to step back.

If the AI got something wrong, there's also a thumbs-down report button in the sidebar so we can improve it.

If you deleted too much

Deleted the wrong thing, or an entire genogram? It's not gone. GenogramAI keeps a Trash with 30-day recovery, so you can restore deleted work within that window. There's also an edit history, so a big accidental change isn't the end of the world. When in doubt, try Undo first — then check Trash if you need to go further back.