diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index 7e35bc25..ebf1a404 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ tauri-plugin-dialog = "2"
 tauri-plugin-fs = "2"
 tauri-plugin-shell = "2"
 tauri-plugin-http = "2"
-tauri-plugin-updater = "2"
 rusqlite = { version = "0.31", features = ["bundled-sqlcipher-vendored-openssl"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
diff --git a/src-tauri/src/db/connection.rs b/src-tauri/src/db/connection.rs
index 18ee72af..490b1911 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/db/connection.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/db/connection.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pub fn open_encrypted_db(path: &Path, key: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Connection> {
     conn.execute_batch("SELECT count(*) FROM sqlite_master;")?;
     // Set SQLCipher settings for AES-256
     conn.execute_batch(
-        "PRAGMA cipher_page_size = 4096; \
+        "PRAGMA cipher_page_size = 16384; \
          PRAGMA kdf_iter = 256000; \
          PRAGMA cipher_hmac_algorithm = HMAC_SHA512; \
          PRAGMA cipher_kdf_algorithm = PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA512;",
diff --git a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
index a755974e..a8e3ed5b 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ pub fn run() {
         .plugin(tauri_plugin_fs::init())
         .plugin(tauri_plugin_shell::init())
         .plugin(tauri_plugin_http::init())
-        .plugin(tauri_plugin_updater::Builder::new().build())
         .manage(app_state)
         .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![
             // DB / Issue CRUD