diff --git a/scripts/publish-npm.js b/scripts/publish-npm.js
index 4b9821b37c8..fea68bf374d 100755
--- a/scripts/publish-npm.js
+++ b/scripts/publish-npm.js
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ const {
 const {
   generateAndroidArtifacts,
   publishAndroidArtifactsToMaven,
-  saveFilesToRestore,
 } = require('./release-utils');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const os = require('os');
@@ -74,8 +73,6 @@ if (!argv.help) {
   echo(`The temp publishing folder is ${tmpPublishingFolder}`);
 }
 
-saveFilesToRestore(tmpPublishingFolder);
-
 // 34c034298dc9cad5a4553964a5a324450fda0385
 const currentCommit = getCurrentCommit();
 const shortCommit = currentCommit.slice(0, 9);
diff --git a/scripts/release-utils.js b/scripts/release-utils.js
index 5b018bdb03b..f2e8cbb6032 100644
--- a/scripts/release-utils.js
+++ b/scripts/release-utils.js
@@ -10,29 +10,8 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const {exec, echo, exit, test, env, pushd, popd} = require('shelljs');
-const {saveFiles} = require('./scm-utils');
 const {createHermesPrebuiltArtifactsTarball} = require('./hermes/hermes-utils');
 
-// TODO: we should probably remove this because of this? https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/34846
-function saveFilesToRestore(tmpPublishingFolder) {
-  const filesToSaveAndRestore = [
-    'template/Gemfile',
-    'template/_ruby-version',
-    'template/package.json',
-    '.ruby-version',
-    'Gemfile.lock',
-    'Gemfile',
-    'package.json',
-    'ReactAndroid/gradle.properties',
-    'Libraries/Core/ReactNativeVersion.js',
-    'React/Base/RCTVersion.m',
-    'ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/systeminfo/ReactNativeVersion.java',
-    'ReactCommon/cxxreact/ReactNativeVersion.h',
-  ];
-
-  saveFiles(filesToSaveAndRestore, tmpPublishingFolder);
-}
-
 function generateAndroidArtifacts(releaseVersion, tmpPublishingFolder) {
   // -------- Generating Android Artifacts
   echo('Generating Android artifacts inside /tmp/maven-local');
@@ -136,5 +115,4 @@ module.exports = {
   generateAndroidArtifacts,
   generateiOSArtifacts,
   publishAndroidArtifactsToMaven,
-  saveFilesToRestore,
 };