diff --git a/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py b/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
index 6986cf3507..977a85b6a1 100755
--- a/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
+++ b/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
@@ -799,7 +799,6 @@ def violin(
             sharey=False,
             order=keys,
             cut=0,
-            inner=None,
             **kwds,
         )