diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/LayoutDirectionUtil.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/LayoutDirectionUtil.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f8c0ff3861..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/LayoutDirectionUtil.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- */
-
-package com.facebook.react.uimanager
-
-import android.view.View
-import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.internal.LegacyArchitecture
-import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.internal.LegacyArchitectureLogLevel
-import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.internal.LegacyArchitectureLogger
-import com.facebook.yoga.YogaDirection
-
-@LegacyArchitecture(logLevel = LegacyArchitectureLogLevel.ERROR)
-@Deprecated(
-    message = "This class is part of Legacy Architecture and will be removed in a future release",
-    level = DeprecationLevel.WARNING,
-)
-internal object LayoutDirectionUtil {
-  init {
-    LegacyArchitectureLogger.assertLegacyArchitecture(
-        "LayoutDirectionUtil",
-        LegacyArchitectureLogLevel.ERROR,
-    )
-  }
-
-  @JvmStatic
-  fun toAndroidFromYoga(direction: YogaDirection): Int =
-      when (direction) {
-        YogaDirection.LTR -> View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_LTR
-        YogaDirection.RTL -> View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL
-        else -> View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_INHERIT
-      }
-}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index 2063e79fc67..8ff0580e36c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -188,8 +188,6 @@ public class NativeViewHierarchyManager {
     try {
       View viewToUpdate = resolveView(tag);
 
-      viewToUpdate.setLayoutDirection(LayoutDirectionUtil.toAndroidFromYoga(layoutDirection));
-
       // Even though we have exact dimensions, we still call measure because some platform views
       // (e.g.
       // Switch) assume that method will always be called before onLayout and onDraw. They use it to