# Quick way to find unused tags? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [January 21, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-way-to-find-unused-tags/31490 "2020-01-21T20:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-way-to-find-unused-tags/31490/9 "2025-04-24T20:26:21Z")
Agreed; it would be up to the programmer to verify. Last read would provide more information than nothing. However, IA has given us a better tool for this now, so we're no longer comparing to nothing: > [@Tag Reference Tracker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-reference-tracker/80999): > > Intro At ICC, we announced that, in the 8.1.34 release, a new tool to identify what resource in Ignition is utilizing different tags would be released; a feature we call the Tag Reference Tracker. The code for this long awaited feature has been merged and will be available in the nightly build starting the morning of 10/26/2023. The [original request for this feature](https://inductiveautomation.canny.io/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/tags-cross-reference) was created a little over 9 years ago and there were multiple variations of what people were looking for this feature to be. We … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-way-to-find-unused-tags/31490)._