---
title: "removeFromParent(preservingWorldTransform:)"
framework: realitykit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "realitykit/hashierarchy/removefromparent(preservingworldtransform:)"
---

# removeFromParent(preservingWorldTransform:)

Removes the entity from its current parent or from the scene if it is a root entity.

## Declaration

```swift
@MainActor @preconcurrency func removeFromParent(preservingWorldTransform: Bool = false)
```

## Parameters

- `preservingWorldTransform`: A Boolean that you set to true to preserve the entity’s world transform, or false to preserve its relative transform. Use true when you want a model to keep its effective location and size within a scene.

## Discussion

Discussion This method behaves like the setParent(_:preservingWorldTransform:) method with a value of nil for the parent parameter, except that method has no effect on root entities. A root entity is one that is stored in a scene’s anchors collection. The children collections of any modified parent entities are automatically updated as well.

## See Also

### Managing the parent

- [parent](realitykit/hashierarchy/parent.md)
- [setParent(_:preservingWorldTransform:)](realitykit/hashierarchy/setparent(_:preservingworldtransform:).md)