diff --git a/chromadb/api/client.py b/chromadb/api/client.py
index c1564135de2..ea5adbde7b2 100644
--- a/chromadb/api/client.py
+++ b/chromadb/api/client.py
@@ -476,13 +476,6 @@ def close(self) -> None:
 
     # endregion
 
-    @override
-    def __del__(self) -> None:
-        # only enforce resource clean-up for ephemeral clients - expand to others?
-        if self._identifier == "ephemeral":
-            self.close()
-        super().__del__()
-
 
 class AdminClient(SharedSystemClient, AdminAPI):
     _server: ServerAPI
diff --git a/chromadb/test/test_client.py b/chromadb/test/test_client.py
index 1456a7b4353..b5f90ccbddf 100644
--- a/chromadb/test/test_client.py
+++ b/chromadb/test/test_client.py
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ def test_delete_ephemeral_client() -> None:
     client = chromadb.EphemeralClient()
     coll = client.get_or_create_collection("test")
     coll.add(ids="1", documents="a", embeddings=[1] * 128)
+    client.close()
     del client
 
     client = chromadb.EphemeralClient()