diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/tree-sitter-langs/default-grammars.json b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/tree-sitter-langs/default-grammars.json
index 6a5608cbf8d5..746ec60669df 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/tree-sitter-langs/default-grammars.json
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/tree-sitter-langs/default-grammars.json
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
   "tree-sitter-ruby",
   "tree-sitter-rust",
   "tree-sitter-scala",
-  "tree-sitter-swift",
   "tree-sitter-typescript",
   "tree-sitter-verilog",
   "tree-sitter-zig"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/default.nix
index cb083bd06c75..05964496ea87 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/default.nix
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
   tree-sitter-supercollider = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-supercollider.json;
   tree-sitter-surface = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-surface.json;
   tree-sitter-svelte = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-svelte.json;
-  tree-sitter-swift = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-swift.json;
   tree-sitter-tlaplus = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-tlaplus.json;
   tree-sitter-toml = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-toml.json;
   tree-sitter-tsq = lib.importJSON ./tree-sitter-tsq.json;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/tree-sitter-swift.json b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/tree-sitter-swift.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7232c7b54aca..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/grammars/tree-sitter-swift.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "url": "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-swift",
-  "rev": "db675450dcc1478ee128c96ecc61c13272431aab",
-  "date": "2022-01-13T10:47:55-08:00",
-  "path": "/nix/store/l3535ndrmi24v5nidxppi1rqccj4s17v-tree-sitter-swift",
-  "sha256": "06mq1an55p75ajwn6pvcy9vlcmzrj8qmbri3mn4bxq53icnj4fya",
-  "fetchLFS": false,
-  "fetchSubmodules": false,
-  "deepClone": false,
-  "leaveDotGit": false
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/update.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/update.nix
index e1491ee81da8..1512f985fa42 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/update.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/tree-sitter/update.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ let
   knownTreeSitterOrgGrammarRepos = [
     "tree-sitter-javascript"
     "tree-sitter-c"
-    "tree-sitter-swift"
     "tree-sitter-json"
     "tree-sitter-cpp"
     "tree-sitter-ruby"
@@ -70,6 +69,8 @@ let
     "tree-sitter-razor"
     # rust library for constructing arbitrary graph structures from source code
     "tree-sitter-graph"
+    # abandoned
+    "tree-sitter-swift"
   ];
   ignoredTreeSitterOrgReposJson = jsonFile "ignored-tree-sitter-org-repos" ignoredTreeSitterOrgRepos;