Class member can have 'private' visibility

Reports declarations that can be made private to follow the encapsulation principle.

Example:

class Service(val url: String) {
    fun connect(): URLConnection = URL(url).openConnection()
}

After the quick-fix is applied (considering there are no usages of url outside of Service class):

class Service(private val url: String) {
    fun connect(): URLConnection = URL(url).openConnection()
}

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

MemberVisibilityCanBePrivate

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Kotlin | Style issues

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection MemberVisibilityCanBePrivate

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025