diff --git a/container/dist.dockerfile b/container/dist.dockerfile
index 326f62b0d..2270bdefd 100644
--- a/container/dist.dockerfile
+++ b/container/dist.dockerfile
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ ENV SEARXNG_VERSION="$VERSION" \
     GRANIAN_HOST="::" \
     GRANIAN_PORT="8080" \
     GRANIAN_WEBSOCKETS="false" \
-    GRANIAN_LOOP="uvloop" \
     GRANIAN_BLOCKING_THREADS="4" \
     GRANIAN_WORKERS_KILL_TIMEOUT="30s" \
     GRANIAN_BLOCKING_THREADS_IDLE_TIMEOUT="5m"
diff --git a/manage b/manage
index de01d167e..15ca0eeff 100755
--- a/manage
+++ b/manage
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ webapp.run() {
         GRANIAN_HOST="::" \
         GRANIAN_PORT="8888" \
         GRANIAN_WEBSOCKETS="false" \
-        GRANIAN_LOOP="uvloop" \
         GRANIAN_BLOCKING_THREADS="4" \
         GRANIAN_WORKERS_KILL_TIMEOUT="30s" \
         GRANIAN_BLOCKING_THREADS_IDLE_TIMEOUT="5m" \
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0bbbf0d01..1c532849a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ pyyaml==6.0.2
 httpx[http2]==0.28.1
 httpx-socks[asyncio]==0.10.0
 Brotli==1.1.0
-uvloop==0.21.0
 setproctitle==1.3.7
 valkey==6.1.1
 markdown-it-py==3.0.0
diff --git a/searx/network/client.py b/searx/network/client.py
index bd21bc9b5..c7c07c385 100644
--- a/searx/network/client.py
+++ b/searx/network/client.py
@@ -13,13 +13,9 @@ import threading
 import httpx
 from httpx_socks import AsyncProxyTransport
 from python_socks import parse_proxy_url, ProxyConnectionError, ProxyTimeoutError, ProxyError
-import uvloop
 
 from searx import logger
 
-
-uvloop.install()
-
 CertTypes = str | tuple[str, str] | tuple[str, str, str]
 SslContextKeyType = tuple[str | None, CertTypes | None, bool, bool]