Session Restoration

Restore your windows, tabs, panes, and recent Blocks automatically when you relaunch Warp.

What is it

Session restoration allows you to quickly pick up where you left off in your previous terminal session.

How to access session restoration

Session Restoration comes enabled by default in Warp.

On Linux, opening windows at a specific position is not supported in Wayland.

You can disable Session Restoration by going to Settings > Features, then toggling off Restore windows, tabs, and panes on startup.

Toggling off Session Restoration will not clear the SQLite database; however, Warp will stop recording new output.

How session restoration works

Session Restoration database

Warp saves the data from your previous session's windows, tabs, and panes to a SQLite database on your computer, and every time you quit the app, this data is overwritten by your latest session. You can open the database directly and inspect its full contents like so:

macOS

sqlite3 "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/2BBY89MBSN.dev.warp/Library/Application Support/dev.warp.Warp-Stable/warp.sqlite"

Windows

sqlite3 $env:LOCALAPPDATA\warp\Warp\data\warp.sqlite

Linux

sqlite3 "${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/warp-terminal/warp.sqlite"

How to clear the Session Restoration database

Sometimes, you may want to prevent a sensitive Block from being saved on your computer, or you may want to clear blocks from a machine entirely.

This interferes with the running session's ability to save content and may require you to close Warp before running the database removal commands.

The following guidance is destructive and will delete any sessions and block history.

There are two ways to do this:

macOS

Clear the blocks from your running Warp session with ⌘+K.
Delete the SQLite file entirely with the following command:

rm -f "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/2BBY89MBSN.dev.warp/Library/Application Support/dev.warp.Warp-Stable/warp.sqlite"

Windows

Clear the blocks from your running Warp session with Ctrl+Shift+K.
Delete the SQLite file entirely with the following command:

Remove-Item -Force $env:LOCALAPPDATA\warp\Warp\data\warp.sqlite

Linux

Clear the blocks from your running Warp session with Ctrl+Shift+K.
Delete the SQLite file entirely with the following command:

rm -f "${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/warp-terminal/warp.sqlite"