# How to efficiently empty Makie figure / delete widgets?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-efficiently-empty-makie-figure-delete-widgets/103612>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [September 7, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-efficiently-empty-makie-figure-delete-widgets/103612 "2023-09-07T13:44:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-efficiently-empty-makie-figure-delete-widgets/103612/21 "2023-09-08T11:52:01Z")

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I think loading them in Chrome you can diff…  
But I’m never 100% sure, since there is always lots of noise still…  
Either Julia in vscode is very noisy due to all the evaling etc, or it’s not a real diff…

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**Author:** ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-efficiently-empty-makie-figure-delete-widgets/103612/22 "2023-10-18T10:08:16Z")

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Fixed this in: [don't append screens by SimonDanisch · Pull Request #3305 · MakieOrg/Makie.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/pull/3305)

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**Author:** ![ffevotte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ffevotte/32/6587_2.png) [@ffevotte](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ffevotte)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-efficiently-empty-makie-figure-delete-widgets/103612/23 "2023-10-18T17:31:34Z")

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Thanks, I can confirm that this fixes the issue!

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