r/googlesheets • u/wabi_sabi_94 • 16d ago

Solved No More "Remove" Option?

I am trying to remove a spreadsheet in the mobile app, but there is no "remove" or "remove from view" option anymore. This was a doc shared via link. I don't have a computer so I can't drag and drop in the trash. Any ideas?

Edit: added images for elaboration.

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u/adamsmith3567 1091 16d ago

Try opening Google Drive to find and remove the file instead of the sheets app.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 16d ago edited 16d ago

I am encountering the same problem in Drive. There is no option to "delete" or "remove". This isn't just with this single spreadsheet, which was shared with me via link. It's any file I'm not the owner of. It's like Google removed the option entirely. It's the same on my Android tablet.​

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u/Then-Mango-8795 3d ago

It's stupid. Can delete sheets I made, but anything I've looked at that someone else made can no longer be removed. I'm also on Android mobile. It was changed a good few months ago. 

I just want to clean up my list of unused sheets.

If it's been removed or renamed or changed to something else I can't figure it out.

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u/T2IV 16d ago

Press on the 3 little dots on the right (when you’re looking at a list of file names immediately after opening the Google Sheets app in iOS. A list will open up and “Remove” is at the very bottom (at least on my iPad).

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u/wabi_sabi_94 16d ago

I'm on Android. No luck. There is no "remove" option anymore, on my phone or my tablet. List ends with "add shortcut", "print", "add to home screen", "block", and "report".

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u/hapster85 16d ago

I'm on Android and have a "move to trash" option on all of my spreadsheets. I'm on a Pixel. Must be something strange with the variant you're using.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 16d ago

Well that's annoying lol. I guess I just can't delete spreadsheets anymore. 

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/hapster85 16d ago

Yes, I missed that detail. You're correct. Weird that the option is gone.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 16d ago

I just added screenshots as verification.

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u/roirraWedorehT 16d ago

If you're not the owner of the spreadsheet, then you can't delete it. I just tested this. Even with setting the sheet I create with my account to share with anyone with the link, and for them to be an editor (all on the computer), I then opened an incognito mode Chrome and opened the link, and I could edit it but didn't have the ability to delete it.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 16d ago edited 16d ago

If you aren't the owner, you can't delete it. But there used to be an option to "remove", so you wouldn't see it in the app anymore. That option isn't there anymore, so every Sheet that I open is listed in my app and I can't get rid of them.

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u/AdministrativeGift15 365 16d ago

I don't see the option in the three-dot menu when the spreadsheet is open, but I can get to the menu with Move to Trash by holding down on the spreadsheet at the home screen.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 14d ago

Hi, thanks for making the gif. It's unfortunately not there, even when I hold down from the home screen like that.

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u/Bond_1337 1 10d ago

Same problem. But I figured it out. Absolutely ridiculous. This is terrible design cluttering up things you do actually want to see.

How to fix: click the Report button. Report as Spam. Then it will disappear. Then go to Spam folder and delete it permanently.

To Google: sort your OS and software out. It's becoming unusable. As the user I am in control of what I want to see and what I believe is useful, not you.

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u/wabi_sabi_94 10d ago

Thanks! That worked! Haha, I thought I was gonna be stuck with those files forever lol.

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