diff --git a/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/ExoPlayer.java b/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/ExoPlayer.java
index 7145b4536b..1b770f014e 100644
--- a/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/ExoPlayer.java
+++ b/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/ExoPlayer.java
@@ -1547,20 +1547,6 @@ public interface ExoPlayer extends Player {
   @UnstableApi
   void setPriorityTaskManager(@Nullable PriorityTaskManager priorityTaskManager);
 
-  /**
-   * Sets whether the player should throw an {@link IllegalStateException} when methods are called
-   * from a thread other than the one associated with {@link #getApplicationLooper()}.
-   *
-   * <p>The default is {@code true} and this method will be removed in the future.
-   *
-   * @param throwsWhenUsingWrongThread Whether to throw when methods are called from a wrong thread.
-   * @deprecated Disabling the enforcement can result in hard-to-detect bugs. Do not use this method
-   *     except to ease the transition while wrong thread access problems are fixed.
-   */
-  @UnstableApi
-  @Deprecated
-  void setThrowsWhenUsingWrongThread(boolean throwsWhenUsingWrongThread);
-
   /**
    * Sets whether audio offload scheduling is enabled. If enabled, ExoPlayer's main loop will run as
    * rarely as possible when playing an audio stream using audio offload.
diff --git a/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/SimpleExoPlayer.java b/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/SimpleExoPlayer.java
index ca19aa490a..09c0a351b8 100644
--- a/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/SimpleExoPlayer.java
+++ b/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/SimpleExoPlayer.java
@@ -1552,9 +1552,7 @@ public class SimpleExoPlayer extends BasePlayer
     streamVolumeManager.setMuted(muted);
   }
 
-  @Deprecated
-  @Override
-  public void setThrowsWhenUsingWrongThread(boolean throwsWhenUsingWrongThread) {
+  /* package */ void setThrowsWhenUsingWrongThread(boolean throwsWhenUsingWrongThread) {
     this.throwsWhenUsingWrongThread = throwsWhenUsingWrongThread;
   }
 
diff --git a/libraries/test_utils/src/main/java/androidx/media3/test/utils/StubExoPlayer.java b/libraries/test_utils/src/main/java/androidx/media3/test/utils/StubExoPlayer.java
index a875c3ab7f..7f9471a1b6 100644
--- a/libraries/test_utils/src/main/java/androidx/media3/test/utils/StubExoPlayer.java
+++ b/libraries/test_utils/src/main/java/androidx/media3/test/utils/StubExoPlayer.java
@@ -359,12 +359,6 @@ public class StubExoPlayer extends StubPlayer implements ExoPlayer {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
 
-  @Deprecated
-  @Override
-  public void setThrowsWhenUsingWrongThread(boolean throwsWhenUsingWrongThread) {
-    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-  }
-
   @Override
   public void experimentalSetOffloadSchedulingEnabled(boolean offloadSchedulingEnabled) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();