How To Delete Multiple Drawings on TradingView (Fast, Clean Charting)

Cleaning up a cluttered TradingView chart usually starts with one task: deleting multiple drawings at once. That means trend lines, support/resistance zones, Fibonacci tools, arrows, text notes, and any other markup you’ve added.

TradingView gives you several ways to bulk-delete drawings, but which method works best depends on how many drawings you have, which platform you’re on (web, desktop, mobile), and what you want to keep vs. remove.

This guide walks through the main methods, what affects them, and how different types of users handle chart cleanup.

What “Drawings” Mean in TradingView

On TradingView, drawings are anything you manually place on the chart, including:

• Lines and shapes – trend lines, horizontal lines, channels, rectangles, circles
• Indicators that use drawing tools – e.g., Fib retracements, pitchforks
• Annotations – text labels, arrows, price labels, callouts
• Icons and markers – long/short position tools, emojis, markers

They are different from:

• Indicators and scripts (like RSI or moving averages)
• Price data itself
• Chart layout settings (colors, scale, theme, etc.)

When you “delete drawings,” you’re only clearing those visual markups you added, not removing indicators or changing the chart’s underlying data.

Core Methods to Delete Multiple Drawings

The exact steps and options can vary slightly depending on whether you use web/desktop or mobile. Here are the main built-in methods.

1. Use “Remove All Drawing Tools” (Fastest Full Reset)

If you want a completely clean chart, this is the quickest way.

On web or desktop:

1. Open your chart.
2. Right-click on an empty area of the chart (not on a drawing).
3. In the context menu, look for something like:
   • “Remove All Drawing Tools” or
   • “Remove → Drawing Tools” (wording can vary slightly by version)
4. Confirm if a prompt appears.

This removes all drawings on that chart at once.

On mobile app (Android / iOS), the menu is often behind a “more” button:

1. Open the chart.
2. Tap on the three dots or options menu (often top-right).
3. Look for “Remove All Drawing Tools” or a similar wording.
4. Confirm.

Good for:

• Starting fresh on a messy chart
• Removing old technical analysis in one go
• Quickly resetting a shared layout

Not good if:

• You want to keep some key levels or labels while clearing others

2. Use the Object Tree to Select and Delete in Bulk

For a bit more control, the Object Tree (sometimes called “Object Manager”) lets you see and manage all drawings as a list.

On web/desktop:

1. Look for the Object Tree icon in the chart interface.
   • It may appear on the right side or bottom as an icon that looks like a list or layers.
2. Open the Object Tree. You’ll see:
   • A list of all drawings on the current chart
   • Often grouped by type (Lines, Text, Fibonacci, etc.) or symbol
3. To delete multiple drawings:
   • Select multiple items by:
     • Holding Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or Cmd (macOS) and clicking several drawings in the list
     • Or using Shift-click to select a range
   • Once selected, right-click and choose “Remove” or press Delete on your keyboard.

Some versions let you select an entire category (e.g., all Fibonacci tools) and delete them together.

On mobile, the Object Tree is often limited or hidden compared to desktop. You may see a simplified version in some app versions, but selection options can be reduced.

Good for:

• Deleting all drawings of a certain type (e.g., all text notes, all Fibs)
• Cleaning just one symbol’s drawings in a multi-symbol layout
• Managing complex charts with many different tool types

Less ideal if:

• You’re on a small mobile screen
• You don’t need granularity and just want everything gone

3. Multi-Select Drawings Directly on the Chart

On web/desktop, you can sometimes select more than one drawing visually and remove them together:

1. Click one drawing to select it.
2. Hold down Shift (or sometimes Ctrl/Cmd, depending on shortcut settings).
3. Click additional drawings to add them to the selection.
4. Press the Delete key or right-click and choose “Remove”.

Some versions also let you:

• Drag a selection box over an area of drawings:
  1. Activate the selection mode (if available – sometimes via a selection icon).
  2. Click and drag to create a box around multiple drawings.
  3. Release, then delete the selected items.

This is very dependent on TradingView’s current UI and your browser and shortcut settings. If drag-select doesn’t work, the Object Tree is usually more reliable.

Good for:

• Deleting a cluster of drawings in one region of the chart
• Keeping annotations in other areas unchanged

Not ideal if:

• Drawings are scattered across the chart
• You rely mainly on mobile, where fine selection is harder

4. Clear Drawings by Timeframe or Layout (Indirect Cleanup)

In more advanced setups, you may use different layouts or timeframes with their own drawing sets. TradingView allows you to:

• Apply drawings to all timeframes or only to the current one
• Have separate chart layouts with their own drawing collections

While there isn’t always a direct “delete by timeframe” button, in practice you might:

• Use one layout as your clean, analysis-only layout, with limited drawings
• Use another layout for heavy markup, and occasionally apply “Remove All Drawing Tools” there

This isn’t a direct bulk-delete feature, but it changes where you do your drawing and cleanup to keep things organized.

Key Factors That Affect How You Delete Multiple Drawings

The best method for you depends on a handful of variables.

1. Platform: Web, Desktop, or Mobile

Different platforms have slightly different controls:

If you’re doing deep chart cleanup, web/desktop usually gives you the best experience, especially with keyboard shortcuts and the Object Tree.

2. Number of Drawings on the Chart

The more drawings you have, the more your strategy changes:

• Just a few drawings – Manually click-and-delete might be enough.
• Dozens of drawings – Object Tree and multi-select become useful.
• Hundreds of drawings – “Remove All Drawing Tools” is often the only practical option.

Heavy drawing use can also affect:

• Chart readability – too much markup can make it hard to see price action
• Performance on lower-end devices – many complex objects can slow down interactions

3. How You Use Drawings (Short Term vs. Long Term)

Your habit patterns matter:

• Short-term traders might use temporary levels or intraday notes that can be wiped daily.
• Swing or position traders may rely on long-term trend lines and zones they want to keep.
• Journal-heavy users who annotate trades may want to remove only some types of drawings (e.g., only closing arrows, not notes).

In those cases, using the Object Tree to filter by tool type is often safer than a full “Remove All.”

4. Technical Comfort Level

If you’re comfortable with interfaces and shortcuts:

• Keyboard shortcuts plus Object Tree can be the fastest route.
• You may adjust settings (like which items appear in the Object Tree, or how drawings sync across timeframes).

If you prefer keeping it simple:

• Relying on “Remove All Drawing Tools” from the right-click menu is the most straightforward option.
• Manual on-chart deletion for small cleanups avoids diving into menus.

5. Chart Layout and Symbol Strategy

Some users build entire workflows around separate layouts:

• One layout per strategy
• One layout per market (stocks vs. crypto vs. forex)
• One layout for archived analysis, another for a clean daily workspace

In these setups, you may:

• Bulk-delete drawings only in a “working” layout
• Keep another layout untouched as a reference

How aggressive you are about deleting drawings will depend on how much you rely on historical annotations.

How Different Types of Users Approach Bulk Deleting Drawings

To see the spectrum, it helps to imagine a few different common profiles.

Casual or New TradingView User

• Usually has a handful of drawings per chart
• Mostly on mobile or browser
• When the chart feels messy, they simply:
  • Right-click → Remove All Drawing Tools, or
  • Tap the menu → remove all on mobile
• Rarely uses the Object Tree

For them, the main trade-off is between simplicity and occasionally losing a drawing they might have wanted to keep.

Active Day Trader

• Heavy use of lines, zones, and annotations intraday
• Often works on multi-monitor desktop setups
• Uses:
  • Object Tree to group and bulk-delete certain types of drawings
  • Shortcuts to speed up the process
• Might clear drawings at the end of each session, but keep some core higher-timeframe levels untouched

They care about speed and clarity, not saving every single annotation forever.

Swing/Position Trader or Investor

• Maintains long-term levels (multi-month trend lines, weekly support/resistance)
• May have fewer drawings, but each one is more meaningful
• Avoids “Remove All” unless starting a totally new analysis
• Relies more on selective deletion:
  • Manually deleting outdated lines
  • Using Object Tree to remove smaller categories of drawings

Their main concern is not accidentally losing important reference levels.

Highly Visual / Note-Taking User

• Uses extensive text labels, callouts, arrows, and icons
• Treats TradingView like a visual trading journal
• Tends to accumulate a lot of objects on a chart
• Needs periodic cleanup, but also wants to preserve key history

They often benefit most from:

• Deleting only certain types of drawing tools in the Object Tree
• Keeping separate layouts or even saving chart states for archival

Where Your Own Setup Fits In

All of these methods—“Remove All Drawing Tools,” Object Tree bulk selection, and on-chart multi-select—are built into TradingView and work reliably once you know where to find them.

What changes from person to person is:

• Whether you’re mostly on desktop or mobile
• How many drawings you typically keep on a chart
• How important your historical annotations are to your analysis
• How comfortable you are exploring menus and using shortcuts
• Whether you rely on separate layouts or keep everything on a single chart

Once you look at your own trading style, device, and charting habits, it becomes clearer which combination of these tools makes the most sense for deleting multiple drawings efficiently without losing the parts of your analysis you still need.