Summary

By default, Kanban boards and the Backlog view from the company-managed project will display any type of issue, including subtasks. This article explains how to hide/remove sub-tasks from Kanban and the Backlog View.

• Example of the Kanban board
  
• Example of Backlog view
  

Environment

Jira Cloud 

Solution

The solution is the same whether you are trying to hide subtasks from a Kanban board or Backlog:

1. From the board, click on Board > Configure to access the Board configuration
2. Go to the General configuration menu, look for the Saved filter, and click on Edit Filter Query
   
3. Edit the JQL query associated with the filter by adding AND issuetype != Sub-task at the end of it, and save the filter
   
4. By excluding the issue type "Sub-task" from the filter used by the board, sub-tasks will no longer be displayed: