topic Re: Cannot remove a layer from a group in TOC in Pro in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Cannot remove a layer from a group in TOC in Pro

David_Brooks — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:18:12 GMT

Anyone else noticed a bug with Pro 2.9.1 whereby you cannot remove layers from a group layer after copying an APRX project?

Im getting this issue with a large map of layers. I can't remove layers from the group as the Remove option is greyed out.

...saying "composite sub-layers cannot be individually removed"?!

The workaround is to remove the whole group layer, then "undo" the remove. After this, i can remove layers from the group, but this breaks links to tables in the layout.

Anyone else seen this?

Re: Cannot remove a layer from a group in TOC in Pro

stevemcelroy — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:17:34 GMT

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm using Pro 3.1 and have same issue and can't find anything useful online about it. I can get with Esri tech support, but thought I'd ask you first 🙂

And by figured it out...I mean without having to do the work around you discussed.

Re: Cannot remove a layer from a group in TOC in Pro

SandraDalton — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:32:33 GMT

I ran into this as well in 3.7, with ungrouped layers. It was the map that was copied rather than the project, none of the map layers were grouped, and all of them had 'Remove' greyed out in the right-click menu.

I was able to remove them by grouping them and then removing the group layer. Perhaps if you try ungrouping/grouping the layers you will then be able to remove them.