diff --git a/mealie/core/settings/db_providers.py b/mealie/core/settings/db_providers.py
index 5c686b4c87f..7cad9653f77 100644
--- a/mealie/core/settings/db_providers.py
+++ b/mealie/core/settings/db_providers.py
@@ -60,18 +60,11 @@ def db_url(self) -> str:
 
             return safe_url
 
-        # We unquote and then requote the password to ensure that it is correctly encoded
-        # This is necessaru because of a bug introduced that caused some users to modify their
-        # passwords to escape the characters manully. In an effort _not_ to break those users
-        # we will unquote and requote the password to ensure it is correctly encoded
-        password = urlparse.unquote(self.POSTGRES_PASSWORD)
-        password = urlparse.quote(password)
-
         return str(
             PostgresDsn.build(
                 scheme="postgresql",
                 username=self.POSTGRES_USER,
-                password=password,
+                password=urlparse.quote(self.POSTGRES_PASSWORD),
                 host=f"{self.POSTGRES_SERVER}:{self.POSTGRES_PORT}",
                 path=f"{self.POSTGRES_DB or ''}",
             )