Docker images consist of multiple layers.

Dangling images are layers that have no relationship to any tagged images.

• They no longer serve a purpose and consume disk space.
• They can be located by adding the filter flag, -f with a value of dangling=true to the docker images command.
• When you're sure you want to delete them, you can add the -q flag, then pass their ID to docker rmi:

To list dangling images:

docker images -f dangling=true

To remove dangling images:

docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q)

or

docker rmi $(docker images --filter "dangling=true" -q --no-trunc)

An alternative to listing dangling images:

docker images | awk '/<none>/ { print $3 }'