diff --git a/apps/studio/components/interfaces/Storage/Trash/Trash.tsx b/apps/studio/components/interfaces/Storage/Trash/Trash.tsx
index fb04bfa5663..c4881a611c9 100644
--- a/apps/studio/components/interfaces/Storage/Trash/Trash.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/components/interfaces/Storage/Trash/Trash.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import { PageContainer } from 'ui-patterns/PageContainer'
 import { PageSection, PageSectionContent } from 'ui-patterns/PageSection'
 import { GenericSkeletonLoader } from 'ui-patterns/ShimmeringLoader'
 
+import { StorageBucketSelector } from '../StorageBucketSelector'
+import { TrashList } from './TrashList'
 import { AlertError } from '@/components/ui/AlertError'
 import { usePaginatedBucketsQuery } from '@/data/storage/buckets-query'
 import {
@@ -16,8 +18,6 @@ import {
   useBucketTrashRestoreMutation,
 } from '@/data/storage/protection/bucket-trash-query'
 import { type TrashObject } from '@/data/storage/protection/protection-mocks'
-import { StorageBucketSelector } from '../StorageBucketSelector'
-import { TrashList } from './TrashList'
 
 export const Trash = () => {
   const { ref } = useParams()
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ export const Trash = () => {
             </div>
 
             {isPending && <GenericSkeletonLoader />}
-            {isError && <AlertError error={error} subject="Failed to retrieve trash" />}
+            {isError && <AlertError error={error} subject="Failed to retrieve deleted files" />}
             {isSuccess && objects.length === 0 && (
               <Admonition
                 type="default"
-                title="Nothing in the trash"
+                title="No deleted files"
                 description="Deleted objects appear here and can be restored until a lifecycle policy removes them."
               />
             )}
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export const Trash = () => {
                 </Card>
                 <p className="text-sm text-foreground-lighter">
                   Items held by a snapshot stay recoverable — and billable — until every snapshot
-                  referencing them is deleted, even past their trash retention.
+                  referencing them is deleted, even past their retention period.
                 </p>
               </>
             )}
diff --git a/apps/studio/components/layouts/StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx b/apps/studio/components/layouts/StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx
index bbae8133fec..0b24849f494 100644
--- a/apps/studio/components/layouts/StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/components/layouts/StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export const StorageBucketsLayout = ({
                   href: `/project/${ref}/storage/files/snapshots`,
                 },
                 {
-                  label: 'Trash',
+                  label: 'Deleted files',
                   href: `/project/${ref}/storage/files/trash`,
                 },
               ]
diff --git a/apps/studio/pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/buckets/[bucketId].tsx b/apps/studio/pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/buckets/[bucketId].tsx
index 5fa630e34f2..60966a3d8fa 100644
--- a/apps/studio/pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/buckets/[bucketId].tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/buckets/[bucketId].tsx
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ const BucketPage: NextPageWithLayout = () => {
                   <Link
                     href={`/project/${ref}/storage/files/trash?bucket=${encodeURIComponent(bucket?.name ?? '')}`}
                   >
-                    Trash
+                    Deleted files
                   </Link>
                 </Button>
               )}
diff --git a/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/DEMO-SCRIPT-AND-UPDATE.md b/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/DEMO-SCRIPT-AND-UPDATE.md
index 2063a2f155c..76e1ed63749 100644
--- a/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/DEMO-SCRIPT-AND-UPDATE.md
+++ b/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/DEMO-SCRIPT-AND-UPDATE.md
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Setup: `pnpm dev:studio`, prototype flag on (`STORAGE_PROTECTION_ENABLED`), a pr
 - Restore an older version; call out that it's **non-destructive** (promotes to a new current version, old current becomes noncurrent).
 - Show a version **pinned by a snapshot** blocking hard-delete — this is the direct answer to "when do I actually stop paying for this."
 
-### Beat 3 — Trash (1–2 min)
-**Storage → Files → Trash tab**
+### Beat 3 — Deleted files (1–2 min)
+**Storage → Files → Deleted files tab**
 - Soft-deleted objects, an "auto-removes" column, one-click restore.
 - Same "held by snapshot" state appears here too — one consistent mental model across both surfaces.
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Setup: `pnpm dev:studio`, prototype flag on (`STORAGE_PROTECTION_ENABLED`), a pr
 - Vision tie-in: three primitives, Postgres as source of truth, branching as the default recovery path. Nothing here required a fourth primitive.
 - **Ask the room:**
   - Storage: does branch-first restore hold up against how storage branching is actually sequenced (2026–2027 per the vision)?
-  - Storage: per-bucket Trash, or project-wide?
+  - Storage: per-bucket Deleted files, or project-wide?
   - Design: does the platform reframe (coverage chips, "restore point" language) read as coherent, or is it doing too much in one screen?
 
 ---
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ Setup: `pnpm dev:studio`, prototype flag on (`STORAGE_PROTECTION_ENABLED`), a pr
 >
 > So the prototype now treats a database backup as a restore point for the **environment** — Database, Storage, and Config — rather than a database artifact with a Storage bolt-on. Concretely: each backup shows coverage across all three; restoring defaults to a new preview branch (cheap, reversible, verify-then-promote), with in-place restore as an explicit, warned-against escape hatch; and the coverage gap — buckets without snapshots — is named instead of silently reproducing the drift the PRFAQ set out to fix.
 >
-> **What's built.** Real Studio components, not a static mockup, behind a prototype flag and wired to mock data since there's no backend yet: per-bucket enable with lifecycle policies, version history in the file preview pane with non-destructive restore, a Trash view, a Snapshots view with restore-with-diff, Database/Storage/Config coverage on backup rows with branch-first restore, and Storage Size in Org Usage broken into live/versions/snapshots inside the existing section.
+> **What's built.** Real Studio components, not a static mockup, behind a prototype flag and wired to mock data since there's no backend yet: per-bucket enable with lifecycle policies, version history in the file preview pane with non-destructive restore, a Deleted files view, a Snapshots view with restore-with-diff, Database/Storage/Config coverage on backup rows with branch-first restore, and Storage Size in Org Usage broken into live/versions/snapshots inside the existing section.
 >
 > **What's deliberately unsolved.** The PRFAQ's own Internal FAQ was honest that the hard part is infra, not UI: event-driven lifecycle expiry, hard-delete coordination between Postgres and S3, and bucket-restore diffing at scale. None of that is in this prototype — it's all mocked. I don't think that's a gap in the demo; I think it's the right place to draw the line before a design review.
 >
 > **What I'd like from you:**
-> - **Storage** — does branch-first restore hold up against how storage branching is actually sequenced? Per-bucket Trash, or project-wide?
+> - **Storage** — does branch-first restore hold up against how storage branching is actually sequenced? Per-bucket Deleted files, or project-wide?
 > - **Design** — does the platform reframe read as coherent, or is it trying to do too much in one screen?
 >
 > I'll walk through it live, ~15 minutes.
diff --git a/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/IMPLEMENTATION.md b/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/IMPLEMENTATION.md
index 6916811e13a..c3de3c67dea 100644
--- a/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/IMPLEMENTATION.md
+++ b/design/storage-snapshots-versioning/IMPLEMENTATION.md
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ localized swap later):
 | **Snapshots (2a)** | Storage → Files → **Snapshots** tab (`/storage/files/snapshots`) | `Snapshots/Snapshots.tsx`, `SnapshotsList.tsx`, `TakeSnapshotModal.tsx`, `RestoreSnapshotModal.tsx`; page `pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/snapshots/index.tsx` (+ route) |
 | **Versions tab (3a)** | Storage explorer → select a file → preview pane | `StorageExplorer/VersionHistory.tsx`, tabs added to `StorageExplorer/PreviewPane.tsx` |
 | **Storage size breakdown (4a)** | Org → **Usage** page | `StorageRetentionUsage/StorageRetentionUsage.tsx`, mounted in `Organization/Usage/Usage.tsx` |
-| **Trash (6a)** | Storage → Files → **Trash** tab (`/storage/files/trash`) | `Trash/Trash.tsx`, `TrashList.tsx`; page `pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/trash/index.tsx` (+ route) |
-| Nav | Snapshots + Trash as **Files sub-tabs** (not sidebar items — they're views over file buckets, not a bucket type) | `StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx` |
-| Shared | Bucket picker for Snapshots/Trash | `StorageBucketSelector.tsx` |
+| **Deleted files (6a)** | Storage → Files → **Deleted files** tab (`/storage/files/trash`) | `Trash/Trash.tsx`, `TrashList.tsx`; page `pages/project/[ref]/storage/files/trash/index.tsx` (+ route) — internal naming ("Trash") kept for the component/route, only the displayed label changed |
+| Nav | Snapshots + Deleted files as **Files sub-tabs** (not sidebar items — they're views over file buckets, not a bucket type) | `StorageLayout/StorageBucketsLayout.tsx` |
+| Shared | Bucket picker for Snapshots/Deleted files | `StorageBucketSelector.tsx` |
 
 ## Verification status