Restore backup not reverting HA version?

I updated to Home Assistant 2026.5.1, including taking a backup as part of the automatic update. I then decided it's not for me. I tried restoring backup, and while it's "successful", it still leaves me on 2026.5.1 instead of reverting to 2026.4.4. What am I doing wrong?

(if anyone cares, I want to revert until replacement triggers arrive. I automated our furnace to turn on/off when we arrive/leave.)
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/05/06/release-20265/#stay-on-top-of-your-batteries-with-the-new-maintenance-dashboard

Those the triggers entered_home and left_home as also the conditions is_home and is_not_home got removed from the Person and Device Tracker. They will get successor in one of the upcoming releases

Did you turn it off and on when you finished your restore? Gracefully?
Go into your backup settings and check you have configured it to comprehensively backup everything. If it didn't back it up, it wont be able to restore it.

The restore process reboots it already anyway. I tried again just for good measure to no avail, using Menu > Settings > System > Power button icon > Advanced options > Reboot system.

As far as I can tell from the backup settings screen, I have everything enabled for Home Assistant.

I am having the exact same issue. I’ve never had any problems restoring from backup before, with the exact same backup configuration.

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Got the exact same problem.

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Sounds like a GitHub report may being this to the attention of the developers.

There was a problem with the supervisor of Home Assistant.
You can find the Github issue here:

And here is the pull request:

With the new supervisor version 2026.05 the problem is solved.
Please restart HA to update the supervisor.

Then you will be able again to restore a backup including the core version.

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