diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/buckets_test.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/buckets_test.rb
index a8a9326a5e41..cae6cefdc986 100644
--- a/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/buckets_test.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/buckets_test.rb
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
 require_relative "../storage_get_autoclass"
 require_relative "../storage_set_autoclass"
 require_relative "../storage_move_object"
+require_relative "../storage_disable_soft_delete"
+require_relative "../storage_get_soft_delete_policy"
+require_relative "../storage_set_soft_delete_policy"
 
 describe "Buckets Snippets" do
   let(:storage_client)   { Google::Cloud::Storage.new }
@@ -676,4 +679,27 @@
       assert_nil result
     end
   end
+
+  describe "soft_delete_policy" do
+    it "get_soft_delete_policy, set_soft_delete_policy, disable_soft_delete" do
+      bucket_name = random_bucket_name
+      refute storage_client.bucket bucket_name
+
+      storage_client.create_bucket bucket_name
+
+      assert_output(/Soft delete policy for #{bucket_name}:/) do
+        get_soft_delete_policy bucket_name: bucket_name
+      end
+
+      assert_output(/Soft delete retention duration for #{bucket_name} is now 604800 seconds\./) do
+        set_soft_delete_policy bucket_name: bucket_name, retention_duration_seconds: 604800
+      end
+
+      assert_output(/Soft delete retention duration for #{bucket_name} is now 0 seconds\./) do
+        disable_soft_delete bucket_name: bucket_name
+      end
+
+      delete_bucket_helper bucket_name
+    end
+  end
 end
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/files_test.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/files_test.rb
index d1c6c53c74cf..3af79db2f99d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/files_test.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/acceptance/files_test.rb
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
 require_relative "../storage_upload_file"
 require_relative "../storage_upload_from_memory"
 require_relative "../storage_upload_with_kms_key"
+require_relative "../storage_list_soft_deleted_objects"
+require_relative "../storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions"
+require_relative "../storage_restore_object"
 
 describe "Files Snippets" do
   let(:storage_client)   { Google::Cloud::Storage.new }
@@ -719,4 +722,25 @@ def mock_cipher.random_key
                                                                  local_file_obj: StringIO.new
     end
   end
+
+  describe "soft_deleted objects" do
+    it "list_soft_deleted_objects, list_soft_deleted_object_versions, restore_object" do
+      file = bucket.create_file StringIO.new(file_content), remote_file_name
+      generation = file.generation
+      file.delete
+
+      out, _err = capture_io do
+        list_soft_deleted_objects bucket_name: bucket.name
+      end
+      assert_match remote_file_name, out
+      out, _err = capture_io do
+        list_soft_deleted_object_versions bucket_name: bucket.name
+      end
+      assert_match remote_file_name, out
+
+      assert_output(/Restored file #{Regexp.escape remote_file_name} with generation \d+ in bucket #{Regexp.escape bucket.name}\./) do
+        restore_object bucket_name: bucket.name, file_name: remote_file_name, generation: generation
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_disable_soft_delete.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_disable_soft_delete.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..19cf7db78b54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_disable_soft_delete.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_disable_soft_delete]
+def disable_soft_delete bucket_name:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+
+  bucket.soft_delete_policy = { retention_duration_seconds: 0 }
+
+  puts "Soft delete retention duration for #{bucket_name} is now 0 seconds."
+end
+# [END storage_disable_soft_delete]
+
+disable_soft_delete bucket_name: ARGV.shift if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_get_soft_delete_policy.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_get_soft_delete_policy.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2606944f63ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_get_soft_delete_policy.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_get_soft_delete_policy]
+def get_soft_delete_policy bucket_name:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+
+  puts "Soft delete policy for #{bucket_name}:"
+  puts "Retention duration: #{bucket.soft_delete_policy.retention_duration_seconds} seconds"
+  puts "Effective time: #{bucket.soft_delete_policy.effective_time}"
+end
+# [END storage_get_soft_delete_policy]
+
+get_soft_delete_policy bucket_name: ARGV.shift if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b5307dadfa26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions]
+def list_soft_deleted_object_versions bucket_name:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+  bucket.files(soft_deleted: true).each do |file|
+    puts "#{file.name}, generation: #{file.generation}, soft_delete_time: #{file.soft_delete_time}"
+  end
+end
+# [END storage_list_soft_deleted_object_versions]
+
+list_soft_deleted_object_versions bucket_name: ARGV.shift if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_objects.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_objects.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c91ae14530db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_list_soft_deleted_objects.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_list_soft_deleted_objects]
+def list_soft_deleted_objects bucket_name:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+
+  bucket.files(soft_deleted: true).each do |file|
+    puts "#{file.name}, soft_delete_time: #{file.soft_delete_time}"
+  end
+end
+# [END storage_list_soft_deleted_objects]
+
+list_soft_deleted_objects bucket_name: ARGV.shift if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_restore_object.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_restore_object.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5be25faeb50a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_restore_object.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_restore_object]
+def restore_object bucket_name:, file_name:, generation:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  # The name of the soft-deleted file to restore
+  # file_name = "your-file-name"
+
+  # The generation of the soft-deleted file to restore
+  # generation = 1600000000000000
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+
+  file = bucket.restore_file file_name, generation
+
+  puts "Restored file #{file.name} with generation #{file.generation} in bucket #{bucket_name}."
+end
+# [END storage_restore_object]
+
+if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
+  restore_object bucket_name: ARGV.shift, file_name: ARGV.shift, generation: ARGV.shift
+end
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_set_soft_delete_policy.rb b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_set_soft_delete_policy.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e237b98940b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/samples/storage_set_soft_delete_policy.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START storage_set_soft_delete_policy]
+def set_soft_delete_policy bucket_name:, retention_duration_seconds:
+  # The ID of your GCS bucket
+  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
+
+  # The retention duration for soft-deleted objects in seconds
+  # retention_duration_seconds = 604800 # 7 days in seconds
+
+  require "google/cloud/storage"
+
+  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
+  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name
+
+  bucket.soft_delete_policy = { retention_duration_seconds: retention_duration_seconds.to_i }
+
+  puts "Soft delete retention duration for #{bucket_name} is now #{bucket.soft_delete_policy.retention_duration_seconds} seconds."
+end
+# [END storage_set_soft_delete_policy]
+
+if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
+  set_soft_delete_policy bucket_name: ARGV.shift, retention_duration_seconds: ARGV.shift
+end