Unused import directive

Reports redundant import statements.

Default and unused imports can be safely removed.

Example:

  import kotlin.*
  import kotlin.collections.*
  import kotlin.comparisons.*
  import kotlin.io.*
  import kotlin.ranges.*
  import kotlin.sequences.*
  import kotlin.text.*

  // jvm specific
  import java.lang.*
  import kotlin.jvm.*

  // js specific
  import kotlin.js.*

  import java.io.* // this import is unused and could be removed
  import java.util.*

  fun foo(list: ArrayList<String>) {
      list.add("")
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

UnusedImport

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Kotlin | Redundant constructs

Inspection ID: KotlinUnusedImport

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection UnusedImport

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025