Redundant overriding method

Reports redundant overriding declarations.

An override can be omitted if it does not modify the inherited signature semantics, for example, by changing visibility.

Example:

  open class Foo {
      open fun singleExpression() {
      }
  }

  class Bar : Foo() {
      override fun singleExpression() = super.singleExpression()
  }

After the quick-fix is applied:

  class Bar : Foo() {
  }

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.

RedundantOverride

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 | Redundant constructs

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 RedundantOverride

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