diff --git a/mailbox-android/src/main/assets/logback.xml b/mailbox-android/src/main/assets/logback.xml
index a84fd707907a6ff4e2887484754d19f7348c7d73..3abfeb1ca5e4cb8df5f047da2d1d09424879765b 100644
--- a/mailbox-android/src/main/assets/logback.xml
+++ b/mailbox-android/src/main/assets/logback.xml
@@ -10,4 +10,6 @@
     <root level="DEBUG">
         <appender-ref ref="logcat" />
     </root>
+    <!-- hide all Netty debug logs -->
+    <logger name="io.netty" level="INFO"/>
 </configuration>