diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/includes/class-wc-admin-actionscheduler-wppoststore.php b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/includes/class-wc-admin-actionscheduler-wppoststore.php
index ed144e8202a..fb4a579bcce 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/includes/class-wc-admin-actionscheduler-wppoststore.php
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/includes/class-wc-admin-actionscheduler-wppoststore.php
@@ -37,31 +37,34 @@ class WC_Admin_ActionScheduler_WPPostStore extends ActionScheduler_wpPostStore {
 	/**
 	 * Forcefully delete all pending WC Admin scheduled actions.
 	 *
-	 * Directly deletes items from the database for performance.
+	 * Directly trashes items from in database for performance.
 	 */
 	public function clear_pending_wcadmin_actions() {
 		global $wpdb;
 
-		// Remove all scheduled action posts and their metadata.
-		$delete_pending_sql =
-			"DELETE p.*, pm.* FROM {$wpdb->posts} p
-			JOIN {$wpdb->postmeta} pm ON p.ID = pm.post_id
-			WHERE post_type = 'scheduled-action'
-			AND post_status = 'pending'
-			AND post_title LIKE 'wc-admin_%'";
+		// Cancel all pending actions by trashing the posts.
+		// Action Scheduler will handle the cleanup.
+		$action_types = array(
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::QUEUE_BATCH_ACTION,
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::QUEUE_DEPEDENT_ACTION,
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::CUSTOMERS_BATCH_ACTION,
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::ORDERS_BATCH_ACTION,
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::ORDERS_LOOKUP_BATCH_INIT,
+			WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::SINGLE_ORDER_ACTION,
+		);
 
-		// phpcs:ignore WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL
-		$wpdb->query( $delete_pending_sql );
-
-		// Delete all taxonomy data related to the WC Admin scheduled action group.
-		$group_term = get_term_by( 'slug', WC_Admin_Reports_Sync::QUEUE_GROUP, parent::GROUP_TAXONOMY );
-
-		if ( $group_term ) {
-			$wpdb->delete( $wpdb->term_relationships, array( 'term_taxonomy_id' => $group_term->term_taxonomy_id ), array( '%d' ) );
-			$wpdb->delete( $wpdb->term_taxonomy, array( 'term_id' => $group_term->term_id ), array( '%d' ) );
-			$wpdb->delete( $wpdb->terms, array( 'term_id' => $group_term->term_id ), array( '%d' ) );
-
-			clean_taxonomy_cache( parent::GROUP_TAXONOMY );
+		foreach ( $action_types as $action_type ) {
+			$wpdb->update(
+				$wpdb->posts,
+				array(
+					'post_status' => 'trash',
+				),
+				array(
+					'post_type'   => 'scheduled-action',
+					'post_status' => 'pending',
+					'post_title'  => $action_type,
+				)
+			);
 		}
 	}
 }