diff --git a/public/admin/admin.css b/public/admin/admin.css
index 7eec5df..eac4489 100644
--- a/public/admin/admin.css
+++ b/public/admin/admin.css
@@ -550,11 +550,3 @@ a.btn { text-decoration: none; }
   gap: 8px;
   margin-left: auto;
 }
-.pin-note { margin-top: 12px; }
-.pin-note code {
-  font-size: 0.92em;
-  padding: 1px 5px;
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  background: var(--bg);
-  border: 1px solid var(--border);
-}
diff --git a/public/admin/admin.js b/public/admin/admin.js
index a76cbb1..cc10af8 100644
--- a/public/admin/admin.js
+++ b/public/admin/admin.js
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ function renderPin(state) {
     : set
       ? 'Admin is locked. This page asks for the PIN, and so does every admin request.'
       : 'Admin is open to anyone on the network. Set a 6-digit PIN to lock it.';
-  if (state.dataDir) document.getElementById('pin-file').textContent = state.dataDir + '/proddash.json';
 }
 
 function pinMessage(text, bad = false) {
diff --git a/public/admin/index.html b/public/admin/index.html
index a327283..8157b88 100644
--- a/public/admin/index.html
+++ b/public/admin/index.html
@@ -92,10 +92,6 @@
             <button class="btn" id="pin-clear" hidden>Turn off</button>
           </div>
         </div>
-        <p class="admin-copy pin-note">Only this page and the admin API ask for it — dashboards stay
-          open, and it is nothing to do with a module's own PIN, such as Slack's send PIN. Forgotten?
-          Remove <code>adminPin</code> from <code id="pin-file">proddash.json</code> in the settings
-          folder and restart.</p>
         <div class="admin-status" id="pin-status"></div>
       </div>
     </section>