Finding inactive objects

I am trying to activate an inactive objects. I am suing findwithtag option.
But it seems it doesnt find objects which are inactive. Anyway to find inactive objects through code??

 

In general, no. But they do still show up in the child list of a transform, so if all your inactive objects are within some known parent transform, you can walk the list and find things that way.

There is a feature request for improvement to this. Please vote if it matters to you.

 

Similar to the above, would be to either
- store it with a public variable in the inspector
or if iyou are able with your current set up to
- find/store it in a variable when it is active, set it to inactive, then
- use the variable and .SetActive later on