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This paper aims at additional symmetries of the unextended and extended, commutative and noncommutative dispersionless Gelfand–Dickey (dGD) hierarchies. Being similar to the Lax formalism of the Gelfand–Dickey (GD) hierarchy, we construct the function [Formula: see text] and Orlov–Schulman function [Formula: see text] of the hierarchies. Meanwhile, the additional symmetry will be studied with the infinite flows of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] function of the dGD hierarchy and one can find that only a part of additional flows can survive under the GD constraints with the corresponding string equation. Furthermore, we pay attention to the additional symmetries of the dispersionless extended Gelfand–Dickey (dEGD) hierarchy which has a quantum torus algebraic structure and show the flows in detail. The additional symmetry of dispersionless noncommutative Gelfand–Dickey (dNCGD) hierarchy and dispersionless extended noncommutative Gelfand–Dickey (dENCGD) hierarchy are studied.