diff --git a/src/chat.rs b/src/chat.rs
index 8101b34dc..2a838a218 100644
--- a/src/chat.rs
+++ b/src/chat.rs
@@ -5021,7 +5021,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn delete_and_reset_all_device_msgs(context: &Context) -> Resul
     context
         .sql
         .execute(
-            r#"INSERT INTO devmsglabels (label) VALUES ("core-welcome-image"), ("core-welcome")"#,
+            "INSERT INTO devmsglabels (label) VALUES ('core-welcome-image'), ('core-welcome')",
             (),
         )
         .await?;
diff --git a/src/sql.rs b/src/sql.rs
index 27671ebbb..ff1e722e7 100644
--- a/src/sql.rs
+++ b/src/sql.rs
@@ -741,6 +741,11 @@ fn new_connection(path: &Path, passphrase: &str) -> Result<Connection> {
     // Default synchronous=FULL is much slower. NORMAL is sufficient for WAL mode.
     conn.pragma_update(None, "synchronous", "NORMAL".to_string())?;
 
+    // Disable double-quoted string literals misfeature.
+    // <https://sqlite.org/quirks.html#double_quoted_string_literals_are_accepted>
+    conn.set_db_config(DbConfig::SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DML, false)?;
+    conn.set_db_config(DbConfig::SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DDL, false)?;
+
     Ok(conn)
 }