[Debug Updater] object appears in hierarchy on play

Unity Engine
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Hi all,

Seeing this today for the first time: On pressing play in 2020.3.11f1, an object appears in my hierarchy and my hierarchy selection auto-focuses to it. It appears under the “DontDestroyOnLoad” heading and is named “[Debug Updater]”. It appears in all scenes but only in this project.

Near-total newbie here so any help on where this comes from and how to get rid of it would be great. I found this post which I suppose will get rid of it at the source, but I’d rather disable it as easily as I seem to have unwittingly enabled it. Any ideas out there?

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I’m having the same problem. Its causing some of my UI to remain in new scenes.

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It’s URP’s debug menu. You can disable it by running UnityEngine.Rendering.DebugManager.instance.enableRuntimeUI = false; in any script. It shouldn’t make a difference in builds either way.