diff --git a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Surface View/InspectorView.swift b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Surface View/InspectorView.swift
index e8ad9e59d..03be794e9 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Surface View/InspectorView.swift	
+++ b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Surface View/InspectorView.swift	
@@ -415,8 +415,6 @@ extension Ghostty {
         // MARK: MTKView
 
         override func draw(_ dirtyRect: NSRect) {
-            Ghostty.logger.warning("inspector draw at \(Date())")
-
             guard
               let commandBuffer = self.commandQueue.makeCommandBuffer(),
               let descriptor = self.currentRenderPassDescriptor else {
diff --git a/src/App.zig b/src/App.zig
index 3e83e414d..33c8318db 100644
--- a/src/App.zig
+++ b/src/App.zig
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ fn drainMailbox(self: *App, rt_app: *apprt.App) !void {
         if (comptime std.log.logEnabled(.debug, .app)) {
             switch (message) {
                 // these tend to be way too verbose for normal debugging
-                .redraw_surface, .redraw_inspector => {},
+                .redraw_surface => {},
                 else => log.debug("mailbox message={t}", .{message}),
             }
         }
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ fn drainMailbox(self: *App, rt_app: *apprt.App) !void {
             .close => |surface| self.closeSurface(surface),
             .surface_message => |msg| try self.surfaceMessage(msg.surface, msg.message),
             .redraw_surface => |surface| try self.redrawSurface(rt_app, surface),
-            .redraw_inspector => |surface| self.redrawInspector(rt_app, surface),
 
             // If we're quitting, then we set the quit flag and stop
             // draining the mailbox immediately. This lets us defer
@@ -289,11 +288,6 @@ fn redrawSurface(
     );
 }
 
-fn redrawInspector(self: *App, rt_app: *apprt.App, surface: *apprt.Surface) void {
-    if (!self.hasRtSurface(surface)) return;
-    rt_app.redrawInspector(surface);
-}
-
 /// Create a new window
 pub fn newWindow(self: *App, rt_app: *apprt.App, msg: Message.NewWindow) !void {
     const target: apprt.Target = target: {
@@ -565,10 +559,6 @@ pub const Message = union(enum) {
     /// message if it needs to.
     redraw_surface: *apprt.Surface,
 
-    /// Redraw the inspector. This is called whenever some non-OS event
-    /// causes the inspector to need to be redrawn.
-    redraw_inspector: *apprt.Surface,
-
     const NewWindow = struct {
         /// The parent surface
         parent: ?*Surface = null,