How to Delete TradingView Layouts Easily 2026

Open any chart on TradingView and look along the top toolbar, to the right of the timeframe buttons and drawing tools. The name of the layout you currently have loaded sits there next to a small cloud icon — in a working account it might read something like "Idle For Testing" rather than anything descriptive.

That name is also a button. Everything to do with saving, renaming, copying, and deleting layouts hangs off it, which is why searching your profile or account settings for a layout manager turns up nothing.

Clicking the layout name drops down the layout menu. At the top are actions for the layout you're currently in — Save layout, an Autosave toggle, Sharing, Make a copy, Rename, and Export chart data — followed by Create new layout.

Below that, under Recently used, TradingView lists the handful of layouts you've opened most recently with their symbol and timeframe underneath each name. This recent list is a shortcut, not your full collection, so don't be alarmed if a layout you're hunting for isn't visible here.

At the bottom of that dropdown is Open layout, which has the keyboard shortcut Dot next to it. Choosing it opens the Layouts dialog — the complete list of every chart layout attached to your account, with a search box at the top and a sort control on the right. Each row shows the layout name plus the symbol, timeframe, and the date it was last saved, which is usually the fastest way to identify dead weight: a layout last touched two years ago on a symbol you no longer trade is a safe candidate for deletion.

Hover over a row in the Layouts list and a trash icon appears at the right-hand end of it, along with a star for marking favourites. Click the trash icon and confirm to remove that layout.

TradingView deletes layouts one at a time rather than offering a multi-select, so a proper clear-out is a short session of repeated clicks. Deletion is permanent — a removed layout doesn't go to any kind of recycle bin, and the drawings, indicator settings, and templates saved inside it go with it. If a layout contains work you might want later, use Make a copy or Export chart data before you delete, or rename it to something like "archive-" and leave it.

Layout housekeeping matters more on the free plan, which allows only a single saved chart layout, while paid tiers step up from a handful to unlimited depending on the plan. If TradingView refuses to save a new layout, you have hit that ceiling rather than encountered a bug, and clearing out an old layout is the fix. It's worth knowing this before you start a new strategy: deleting to make room mid-session is exactly the situation where people delete the wrong thing in a hurry.

The clear-out only holds if the survivors have names you'll recognize in three months. Rename from the same layout dropdown and use a convention that carries the information the list already shows you well — asset class and purpose beat version numbers, so "Crypto swing" and "NIFTY intraday" work better than "Chart 3" and "test2".

Star the two or three layouts you genuinely use daily so they sort to the top of the manager. A short naming pass now saves you from repeating this whole cleanup next quarter.