Unnecessary modifier

Reports redundant modifiers and suggests to remove them. The resulting code will be shorter, but the behaviour and meaning will remain the same.

Example 1:

  // all code is implicitly strictfp under Java 17 and higher
  strictfp class X {

    // inner enums are implicitly static
    static enum Inner {
        A, B, C
    }

    // inner records are implicitly static
    static record R() {
    }
  }

Example 2:

  final record R() {
    // all records are implicitly final
  }

Example 3:

  // all interfaces are implicitly abstract
  abstract interface Printer {

    // all interface members are implicitly public
    public int size();

    // all inner classes of interfaces are implicitly static
    static class Inner {}
  }

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.

UnnecessaryModifier

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 | Java | Code 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 UnnecessaryModifier

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