topic Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer? in ArcGIS Online Questions

How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

TonyViveiros1 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:36:06 GMT

How can an ArcGIS Online hosted tile layer be renamed?

Thanks.

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

Anonymous User — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:13:19 GMT

How did you create and publish the tiles?

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

TonyViveiros1 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:15:22 GMT

I created a tile package in Desktop, uploaded this to AGOL then published from AGOL.

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

Anonymous User — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:27:24 GMT

From the image it looks like the part you want to rename is actually the layer in the tile package. I believe you would have to change the name of the layer in ArcMap or Pro before you created the tile package.

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

TonyViveiros1 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:41:14 GMT

Yes, that's what I'm trying to rename. I was hoping I didn't have to create the tile package again simply to rename the layer. Tile package creation can be very time consuming (days for some that I've created).

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

KellyGerrow — Tue, 01 May 2018 00:03:56 GMT

Hi Tony,

Do you need to change the actual layer name or do you need to change how it appears in a web map?

You can update the item name which will update the service layer name or update both the service name and layer name in the web map using the rename functionality. This will also update the layer and service name on the item.

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

TonyViveiros1 — Tue, 01 May 2018 01:28:13 GMT

Hi Kelly...perhaps I'm missing something, but renaming the hosted tile layer name within the web map doesn't work for me. I would like to rename the highlighted tile layer below. The only options that appear for the hosted tile layer in the web map are the two associated with the pop-up. The second image below shows how this tile layer name then appears within a web app that references that web map.

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

KellyGerrow — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:58:55 GMT

Thanks for sharing Tony,

It looks like I was testing a tile layer published from a hosted feature layer and not a tpk. Unfortunately, re-creating the tpk seems to be the only way to do this currently. I'll get this over to the development team, but would suggest you log this as a bug through support services so its trackable.

Thanks,

Kelly

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

TonyViveiros1 — Tue, 15 May 2018 13:21:48 GMT

The following enhancement request has been logged:

ENH-000113955: Add an ability to easily rename a tile layer when created from a TPK in ArcGIS Online

Tony

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

NeilWebber — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:33:06 GMT

Hi, I wonder if this enhancement request ever got implemented? I still can't find an easy way to rename a tile layer published from a TPK, other than republishing the whole thing, which is a bit of a bind. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time...)

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

Joey_Lecky — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:13:06 GMT

Nothing has changed as far as I can tell. You can vote for my idea about this topic here:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/ability-to-edit-text-in-hosted-tile-layers/idi-p/1206628

Re: How to Rename a Hosted Tile Layer?

Mike_Koutnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:30:38 GMT

I just ran into this today. I had set a wonky layer name that was descriptive of the processing I applied to create the raster layer (a different spatial reference). I assumed I could change the name in the web map. Nope. I also ended up needing to recreate the tpkx, upload and create a NEW tile layer. When I tried to replace it with the new, it said something didn't match. Other then the name, all the tiling and such was the same. But it also appears some enhancements were made to the way tiles are stored. It is less than 1/4 the size of the original (created in Sept. 2025). And creating the new tile package, uploading, and publishing the tile layer was also much faster.

This entire workflow could be improved. There are too many opportunities for varying settings and options creeping in that have no effective impact on the result, but apparently cause the new tpkx to not "match" the old. One should be able to point to a tile layer in ArcGIS Online, or at least the tpkx, and have the geoprocessing tool options be filled in automatically to match the old. If something fails there at least you'd know it before generating a new tpkx that isn't going to work after uploading. And this workflow could have an option for automatically updating the tile layer from the uploaded tpkx rather than needing another manual step.