# \[SOLVED\] How to uninstall synapse?

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-how-to-uninstall-synapse/3806
**Category:** Hardware Owners Support
**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-how-to-uninstall-synapse/3806 "2025-08-08T19:33:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Avron)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-how-to-uninstall-synapse/3806/1 "2025-08-08T19:33:39Z")

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My Pioneer is getting short on memory.

`ps aux --sort rss` shows that synapse takes a significant amount of memory, but I don’t actually use it, so I’d like to uninstall it. In plinth, on the Matrix page, I see no option to uninstall it. How to do this?

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### Author: ![Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Avron)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-how-to-uninstall-synapse/3806/2 "2025-08-08T19:48:46Z")

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Ok, I saw the option, I had to go to the page “configure”, then it can be uninstalled.

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### Author: ![Sunil](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/sunil/32/8_2.png) [@Sunil](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Sunil)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-how-to-uninstall-synapse/3806/3 "2025-08-08T20:11:46Z")

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This is kind of a special case for Matrix domain setup (as the domain name can’t be changed after it has been setup). After the domain setup, the regular app page is shown. Perhaps we should improve the UI for this.