Deleted objects still showing in Sanity UI with blank data

Good morning! This sounds like a caching issue in Sanity Studio. Here are the most common solutions:

Quick fixes to try first:

1. Hard refresh your browser - Press Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac) to clear the browser cache and reload the Studio
2. Clear browser cache completely - Sometimes a hard refresh isn't enough, so clear your browser's cache and cookies for the Studio URL
3. Try incognito/private browsing - Open Studio in an incognito window to rule out browser caching issues

If those don't work:

1. Restart your development server - If you're running Studio locally, stop and restart sanity dev or your build process

2. Check your dataset - Verify the documents are actually deleted by querying your dataset directly using Vision (the GROQ query tool in Studio) with a query like:

   *[_id == "your-document-id"]

   If this returns an empty array, the document is truly deleted

3. Clear Studio's local storage - Open browser DevTools → Application/Storage tab → Local Storage → find your Studio's domain and clear it

Possible causes:

• Browser caching - Most common cause, especially if you're seeing the document in lists but it's empty when clicked
• Draft vs published versions - If you deleted only the draft (drafts.document-id) but not the published version (or vice versa), you might still see remnants
• Studio version issues - Rarely, older Studio versions had caching bugs that were resolved in updates

If the issue persists:

Try checking the Network tab in your browser's DevTools to see if Studio is actually fetching fresh data from the API or serving cached responses. You should see requests to https://[your-project-id].api.sanity.io/... when navigating.

The fact that the data appears blank when clicked strongly suggests the documents are deleted from the database but your browser is showing a cached list view. A hard refresh should resolve this in most cases!