diff --git a/src/widget/form/settings/advancedform.cpp b/src/widget/form/settings/advancedform.cpp
index 06d9878b8..ae31d4bd3 100644
--- a/src/widget/form/settings/advancedform.cpp
+++ b/src/widget/form/settings/advancedform.cpp
@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ AdvancedForm::AdvancedForm()
     bodyUI->proxyType->setCurrentIndex(index);
     on_proxyType_currentIndexChanged(index);
 
+    QString warningBody = tr("Unless you %1 know what you are doing, "
+                             "please do %2 change anything here. Changes "
+                             "made here may lead to problems with qTox, and even "
+                             "to loss of your data, e.g. history.</p>")
+            .arg(QString("<b>%1</b>").arg(tr("really")))
+            .arg(QString("<b>%1</b>").arg(tr("not")));
+
+    QString warning = QString("<div style=\"color:#ff0000;\">"
+                              "<p><b>%1</b></p><p>%2</p></div>")
+            .arg(tr("IMPORTANT NOTE")).arg(warningBody);
+
+    bodyUI->warningLabel->setText(warning);
+
     eventsInit();
     Translator::registerHandler(std::bind(&AdvancedForm::retranslateUi, this), this);
 }
diff --git a/src/widget/form/settings/advancedsettings.ui b/src/widget/form/settings/advancedsettings.ui
index 790fd1160..5082b02ae 100644
--- a/src/widget/form/settings/advancedsettings.ui
+++ b/src/widget/form/settings/advancedsettings.ui
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
        <item>
         <widget class="QLabel" name="warningLabel">
          <property name="text">
-          <string>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head/&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-weight:600; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;IMPORTANT NOTE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Unless you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-weight:600; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;really&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt; know what you are doing, please do &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-weight:600; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt; change anything here. Changes made here may lead to problems with qTox, and even to loss of your data, e.g. history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+          <string notr="true">{IMPORTANT NOTE HERE}</string>
          </property>
          <property name="textFormat">
           <enum>Qt::RichText</enum>