how do I programmatically remove thumbs, after it has been initialized and rendered already?

[ajssd]

I have a swiper instance that follows the "thumbs gallery" demo here. Works great.

But now I need to programmatically (e.g. in response to an event) remove -- effectively hide or "detach" -- the thumbnail swiper. I realize I could just hide it in CSS, but it would still be in the DOM and swiper would still have to deal with it.

I thought perhaps it would be something like this:

swiper.params.thumbs.swiper = null;
swiper.thumbs.update();

but that didn't work; the two swipers are still working as before. There is no swiper.thumbs.destroy() method like there is for other modules (navigation, pagination, etc.).

Is it possible to programmatically detach a "thumbs" swiper once attached?