Version History - new Google Sites

Revert to previous versions, restore deleted content or view who made changes to a new Google Site

Instructions

View version history of a Google Site

Use the three-dot More menu and choose Version history.
The right-hand panel will list the Version history of what changed, and by who, on the site and the left will show how the site looked at that version.

Revert to a previous version of a new Site

Open the version history (see View version history above).
Scroll through the list of versions of your site and find the version of the site you want to restore and revert to.
Above the site preview on the left use the Restore this version button and the site will restore that version of the site.
Version history retains all the revisions of the site after the version you restored to, so you you do not lose those changes and versions and can revert back to those at any point in time.

Restore deleted content of a Google Site

Open the version history (see View version history above).
Find the version of your site that contains the deleted content you want to restore.
Use the Restore this version button above the site preview on the left.
Your site will revert to the version where the deleted content existed.

Name a version of a new Google Site

Open the version history (see View version history above).
Pick the version of the site you want to name.
Either double-click the date or use the three-dot button and choose Name this version and enter the name you want for that site version.

Availability

Version history is rolling out slowly on a user-by-user basis, first to newly created Sites, then secondly to existing Sites: Google estimates this process will take until the end of 2020 to roll out to all Google Sites

Notes

New Google Sites doesn't offer the option to make a copy of a version, but you can restore the version you want to copy and, once restored, Duplicate the site and then restore back to the version you want to keep.
If you want to restore deleted content but you have created other content you also want to keep then you may need to restore the version that provides the deleted content, Copy the site, and then use the copied site to copy and paste the content from the copied site to the add it back to the original site.

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