Destroying an Instantiated GameObject

You could use GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag to find them in order to destroy them. But I guess the question is; why are you using separate GameObjects as GUI instead of calling DrawTexture inside of OnGUI

GUIScriptingGuide

Thank you.

How do I destroy the instance of the object, but not the object itself?

what u have in the hierarchy tab is what u see in our scene/game tab. if u don't want to erase forever ur GUI make it a prefab and instantiate it. then u can always erase it and re instantiate it again.

I ended up just using raycasts, for any future viewers who want to know how I fixed the problem.

You need to create a reference to the instance and assign it to a variable.

i.e

 [SerializeField] GameObject _myPrefab;
 
 var myObject = GameObject.Instantiate(_myPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.Identity);
 
 Destroy(myObject);