How to expand patterns (the right way) in Adobe Illustrator

This is how you turn a pattern into vector shapes in Illustrator without having any extra invisible shapes or clipping masks left over.
I used Illustrator 2023 but this still should work on nearly any previous or future version of Illustrator.

[@MariaCr001]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[@bettybacetty7578]

That was awesome!

[@shofwatulafifah]

thankssss

[@guchfun]

Wow! Thank you! This was not obvious at all. You think Adobe would have an option to flatten the grid to individual objects in a group!

[@zaklay9399]

Great video. Thank you!

[@CPYPDX]

That was genius!! I've been spinning my wheels trying to figure out what was going on. The opt+cmd+7 is getting rid of the clipping?

[@wotntarnation3012]

Yes I beleive so. If not, click on the object menu and under clipping mask there's an option to unclip everything

[@mattyann]

Thank you!

[@aishaamir5779]

Nothing happened after Control Shift G 😭 help

[@wotntarnation3012]

on mac it's cmd + shift + G. Make sure you have the group selected

[@MuqaddisVlogs]

thanks

[@SkinnyWithFatPockets]

thanks!