Can't see anchors on UI?

I'd like to play around with anchors but I've noticed that they're not visible! I recall I was once able to see them, does anyone know what I should do to be able to see them again?

 

You might have RectTransform gizmos disabled. Either enable them from Gizmos-list (a dropdown list at the top of Scene-view) or by extending the RectTransform inspector.

The latter can be done by selecting a gameobject that has a RectTransform component and clicking the component's name, which will show/hide its inspector. This also toggles the visibility of gizmos.

 

I do have it visible in the gizmo list, any other ideas?

 

When you zoom in on say a button, if its pivot is set to the middle of the canvas, and its anchors are set there as well. they could just be off screen. If you zoom out some you will see the anchors all clustered in the middle of the canvas, but nowhere near your button.

Also sometimes when you click on a button.. your actually highlighting the canvas. You click again you get the button. Click again you get the text child of the button.

 

I have to say that in my case I had the same problem and that was because in 'Layers' dropdown list, layer '5:UI' was hidden.
I hope my comment can be useful for anyone else that could finish in this thread.

 

Restart Unity

 

if any of your Inspector window (as you can have more than one Inspector windows at a time) is

LOCKED

or in

DEBUG

mode, the anchor gets hidden

 

God Bless you, you saved me!

 

My solution: I had the "Selection wire" gizmo disabled. I simply enabled it from Gizmos-list (a dropdown list at the top of Scene-view) and they re-appeared.

 

In my case, i discover that gizmos list are also a button to enable or disable all gizmos

 

In my case I can't get it to show no matter what I do. New scene, new canvas, new panel on the new canvas, gizmos ticked, layer on UI/Default, only one inspector and it is in normal mode (I also tried toggling back and forth). No anchor editors.

From what I see on Google this problem has been around since Unity 4. I don't suspect a fix is coming anytime soon, is it?

 

If this isn't in Unity's documentation, it certainly needs to be.

 

Can Unity please answer this? It's still happening. All fixes suggested above have been tried.

 

In my case Gismos -> RectTransform [Off] than Gismos -> RectTransform [On] helps me.

 

Thanks for that pointer the anchor arrow appeared as soon as I did ==> Gismos -> RectTransform [Off] and then stayed visible when I -> RectTransform [On]

 

You can see the scene editor toolbar. Is Gizmos on?

 

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thank you!

 

thanks!

 

Thank you ! Finally solved it for me <3

 

Thanks you ! It works for me

 

thank you very much

I checked my layer, even though "UI" is working, It didn't show up.
When I restarted "UI", it was displayed.

 

Thank you! Had so many issues with upgrading to Unity 2021 and this saved me from going crazy!

 

For me the issue was that the GameObject was inactive. It's weird because all the other layout tools are visible even though the GameObject is inactive.

 

In my case I had two inspector tabs on the right panel and one of them was locked to a non UI gameobject. Even though I used the non locked inspector tab, anchors were not shown. After I released the lock from other inspector tab, anchors come back.
Unity 2020.3.33f1

 

If you have the issue of not having visible anchors (top/bottom/l/r/etc) in Rect Transform options:

Tree:

Screen Management -> UI Scenes -> Level UI -> Visibility -> obj1, obj2, obj3 

if you need obj1, obj2 and obj3 to have visible achors in Rect Transform, you need all their parents to have achors as well, so just add it to every parent untill the one that is tied to Camera. In my case is was UI Scenes
UI Scenes had "Canvas" -> "Render Camera"=="Main Camera (Camera)"

 

I am dealing with my stupidity for week. I had my RectTransform gizmo checked. Layer ok, no hidden layer.
But I forgot that I completely turned off the Gizmo. So light the button up. (click on it)

 

In my case, I solved the problem by creating a new scene window.

 

In my case (with RectTransform enabled in Gizmos):

And then click on properties. A new window opens with the anchor properties

P.S. Working on Unity for Ubuntu (22.04)

P.S.2. The reason it was not showing, was that I had accidentally activated the debug mode. Everything is visible as expected in the normal mode

 

You saved me, thanks so much!

 

Just change the layout to default

 

What I did was just turn on the gizmo icon in the top right of the scene window and yeah, sadly a lot of other gizmos come up and it gets in the way but yeah. Thanks everyone for help

 

Won't Fix :|
Issue reference

 

If none of the above solutions work, I found a solution that should work for most people.

If anchors do not appear for an object with the RectTransform component, it is most likely because its parent doesn't have the RectTransform component.

If you add the component to all it's parent's in the hierarchy, that should work.