diff --git a/lib/features/app/widget/app.dart b/lib/features/app/widget/app.dart
index e97fd720..2773fee8 100644
--- a/lib/features/app/widget/app.dart
+++ b/lib/features/app/widget/app.dart
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import 'package:hiddify/core/localization/locale_extensions.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/localization/locale_preferences.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/localization/translations.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/model/constants.dart';
-import 'package:hiddify/core/preferences/general_preferences.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/router/router.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/theme/app_theme.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/theme/theme_preferences.dart';
@@ -34,14 +33,7 @@ class App extends HookConsumerWidget with PresLogger {
 
     final upgrader = ref.watch(upgraderProvider);
 
-    ref.listen(
-      introCompletedProvider,
-      (_, completed) async {
-        if (completed) {
-          await ref.read(foregroundProfilesUpdateNotifierProvider.future);
-        }
-      },
-    );
+    ref.listen(foregroundProfilesUpdateNotifierProvider, (_, __) {});
 
     return WindowWrapper(
       TrayWrapper(
diff --git a/lib/features/profile/notifier/profiles_update_notifier.dart b/lib/features/profile/notifier/profiles_update_notifier.dart
index 222f7f8e..55b7ed51 100644
--- a/lib/features/profile/notifier/profiles_update_notifier.dart
+++ b/lib/features/profile/notifier/profiles_update_notifier.dart
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'package:dartx/dartx.dart';
+import 'package:hiddify/core/preferences/general_preferences.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/core/preferences/preferences_provider.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/features/profile/data/profile_data_providers.dart';
 import 'package:hiddify/features/profile/model/profile_entity.dart';
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ class ForegroundProfilesUpdateNotifier
 
   @override
   Future<void> build() async {
-    loggy.debug("initializing");
     var cycleCount = 0;
     final scheduler = NeatPeriodicTaskScheduler(
       name: 'profiles update worker',
@@ -33,7 +33,12 @@ class ForegroundProfilesUpdateNotifier
       await scheduler.stop();
     });
 
-    return scheduler.start();
+    if (ref.watch(introCompletedProvider)) {
+      loggy.debug("intro done, starting");
+      return scheduler.start();
+    } else {
+      loggy.debug("intro in process, skipping");
+    }
   }
 
   @visibleForTesting