# Need clarification on how Glide treats "unused sheets."

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326 "2021-02-24T02:56:22Z")
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### Author: ![Rasha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rasha/32/4585_2.png) [@Rasha](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rasha)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326/1 "2021-02-24T02:56:22Z")

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**App:**

- Private w/ email sign-in
- No Row Owners enabled
- Published.
- Viewing as signed-in user in a browser, not editor.

Based on my understanding of how “[unused sheets](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/security-and-per-user-data/protected-columns#unused-sheets)” are treated, metadata for my test unused sheet shouldn’t be showing up in a network request.

Am I interpreting " _Your app can only access sheets that the app uses"_ too literally?

  

![unused A](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/9/1/91556a81574da89edfdc5340b814fcd6bb560e7d.png)

 ![UnusedSheet B](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/a/0/a01008fad97dd42839c77d6c80c634b2339141c6.png)

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### Author: ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326/2 "2021-02-24T03:24:21Z")

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mmm, I just did a similar test with one of my (Legacy Pro) apps, with the same result.  
This does seem to contradict what the docs say, so would be good to have some clarification.

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### Author: ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326/3 "2021-02-24T03:50:02Z")

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@rasha I did a bit more testing with this, and while it seems that the table definitions (sheet names, column headings) for unused sheets are visible, the actual _data_ associated with those sheets is not visible.

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### Author: ![Rasha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rasha/32/4585_2.png) [@Rasha](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rasha)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-clarification-on-how-glide-treats-unused-sheets/23326/4 "2021-02-24T04:16:25Z")

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> [@Darren\_Murphy](#):
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> the actual _data_ associated with those sheets is not visible.

Darren - thanks. I knew the data itself wasn’t visible but thought it was odd the metadata listed that table. That the information related to those tables is not entirely obscured. To me, if I can see those tables via a 3rd party tool, they are indeed accessed by the app and therefore the verbiage is inaccurate.

Maybe there’s technical reason why all tables must show up in the schema.