diff --git a/example/nextjs/pages/_app.js b/example/nextjs/pages/_app.js
index 2309645a..8eb5f0e1 100644
--- a/example/nextjs/pages/_app.js
+++ b/example/nextjs/pages/_app.js
@@ -31,22 +31,8 @@ if (enableSubpaths) {
 // Warning: Did not expect server HTML to contain a <h1> in <div>.
 // not sure - did neither find something wrong - nor seems the warning to make sense
 export default class MyApp extends App {
-
-  static async getInitialProps({Component, router, ctx}) {
-    let pageProps = {};
-
-    if (Component.getInitialProps) {
-      pageProps = await Component.getInitialProps(ctx);
-    }
-
-    // initialI18nStore and initialLanguage need to be passed into NamespacesConsumer
-    // for any page that is not wrapped with withI18next to enable ssr localized rendering
-    let i18nProps = i18n.getInitialProps(ctx.req, "common");
-    return {pageProps, i18nProps};
-  }
-
   render() {
-    const { Component, pageProps, i18nProps } = this.props;
+    const { Component, pageProps } = this.props;
 
     return (
       <Container>
@@ -55,8 +41,6 @@ export default class MyApp extends App {
           ns="common"
           i18n={(pageProps && pageProps.i18n) || i18n}
           wait={process.browser}
-          initialI18nStore={i18nProps.initialI18nStore}
-          initialLanguage={i18nProps.initialLanguage}
         >
           {t => (
             <React.Fragment>