diff --git a/src/vector/platform/ElectronPlatform.tsx b/src/vector/platform/ElectronPlatform.tsx
index 4fcbbce398..287d7bab89 100644
--- a/src/vector/platform/ElectronPlatform.tsx
+++ b/src/vector/platform/ElectronPlatform.tsx
@@ -489,10 +489,7 @@ export default class ElectronPlatform extends VectorBasePlatform {
     }
 
     reload() {
-        // we used to remote to the main process to get it to
-        // reload the webcontents, but in practice this is unnecessary:
-        // the normal way works fine.
-        window.location.reload(false);
+        window.location.reload();
     }
 
     private async ipcCall(name: string, ...args: any[]): Promise<any> {
diff --git a/src/vector/platform/WebPlatform.ts b/src/vector/platform/WebPlatform.ts
index 33359f4292..454c8250df 100644
--- a/src/vector/platform/WebPlatform.ts
+++ b/src/vector/platform/WebPlatform.ts
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ export default class WebPlatform extends VectorBasePlatform {
     }
 
     installUpdate() {
-        window.location.reload(true);
+        window.location.reload();
     }
 
     getDefaultDeviceDisplayName(): string {
@@ -212,8 +212,6 @@ export default class WebPlatform extends VectorBasePlatform {
     }
 
     reload() {
-        // forceReload=false since we don't really need new HTML/JS files
-        // we just need to restart the JS runtime.
-        window.location.reload(false);
+        window.location.reload();
     }
 }