diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2205.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2205.section.xml
index 396de8cd77c2..ae9067c923e3 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2205.section.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2205.section.xml
@@ -792,6 +792,16 @@
           <literal>systemd.nspawn.&lt;name&gt;.execConfig.PrivateUsers = false</literal>
         </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Tor SOCKS proxy is now actually disabled if
+          <literal>services.tor.client.enable</literal> is set to
+          <literal>false</literal> (the default). If you are using this
+          functionality but didn’t change the setting or set it to
+          <literal>false</literal>, you now need to set it to
+          <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>
           The terraform 0.12 compatibility has been removed and the
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2205.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2205.section.md
index 2f730de737c0..ad9020f15444 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2205.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2205.section.md
@@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
 
 - `systemd-nspawn@.service` settings have been reverted to the default systemd behaviour. User namespaces are now activated by default. If you want to keep running nspawn containers without user namespaces you need to set `systemd.nspawn.<name>.execConfig.PrivateUsers = false`
 
+- The Tor SOCKS proxy is now actually disabled if `services.tor.client.enable` is set to `false` (the default). If you are using this functionality but didn't change the setting or set it to `false`, you now need to set it to `true`.
+
 - The terraform 0.12 compatibility has been removed and the `terraform.withPlugins` and `terraform-providers.mkProvider` implementations simplified. Providers now need to be stored under
 `$out/libexec/terraform-providers/<registry>/<owner>/<name>/<version>/<os>_<arch>/terraform-provider-<name>_v<version>` (which mkProvider does).
 
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/security/tor.nix b/nixos/modules/services/security/tor.nix
index ddd216ca7fd0..a5822c02794d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/security/tor.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/security/tor.nix
@@ -910,6 +910,11 @@ in
         ORPort = mkForce [];
         PublishServerDescriptor = mkForce false;
       })
+      (mkIf (!cfg.client.enable) {
+        # Make sure application connections via SOCKS are disabled
+        # when services.tor.client.enable is false
+        SOCKSPort = mkForce [ 0 ];
+      })
       (mkIf cfg.client.enable (
         { SOCKSPort = [ cfg.client.socksListenAddress ];
         } // optionalAttrs cfg.client.transparentProxy.enable {