---
title: hideInactiveLayers
framework: symbols
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: symbols/variablecolorsymboleffect/hideinactivelayers
---

# hideInactiveLayers

An effect that hides inactive layers in a symbol-based image.

## Declaration

```swift
var hideInactiveLayers: VariableColorSymbolEffect { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This effect hides inactive layers completely, rather than drawing them with reduced, but nonzero, opacity.

## See Also

### Affecting inactive layers

- [dimInactiveLayers](symbols/variablecolorsymboleffect/diminactivelayers.md)