diff --git a/liblog/event_tag_map.cpp b/liblog/event_tag_map.cpp
index 51c5e60a8..2c0156ea2 100644
--- a/liblog/event_tag_map.cpp
+++ b/liblog/event_tag_map.cpp
@@ -559,21 +559,6 @@ const char* android_lookupEventFormat_len(const EventTagMap* map, size_t* len, u
   return str->second.data();
 }
 
-// This function is deprecated and replaced with android_lookupEventTag_len
-// since it will cause the map to change from Shared and backed by a file,
-// to Private Dirty and backed up by swap, albeit highly compressible. By
-// deprecating this function everywhere, we save 100s of MB of memory space.
-const char* android_lookupEventTag(const EventTagMap* map, unsigned int tag) {
-  size_t len;
-  const char* tagStr = android_lookupEventTag_len(map, &len, tag);
-
-  if (!tagStr) return tagStr;
-  char* cp = const_cast<char*>(tagStr);
-  cp += len;
-  if (*cp) *cp = '\0';  // Trigger copy on write :-( and why deprecated.
-  return tagStr;
-}
-
 // Look up tagname, generate one if necessary, and return a tag
 int android_lookupEventTagNum(EventTagMap* map, const char* tagname, const char* format, int prio) {
   const char* ep = endOfTag(tagname);
diff --git a/liblog/include/log/event_tag_map.h b/liblog/include/log/event_tag_map.h
index f7ec208b3..4d0ebf954 100644
--- a/liblog/include/log/event_tag_map.h
+++ b/liblog/include/log/event_tag_map.h
@@ -39,14 +39,6 @@ EventTagMap* android_openEventTagMap(const char* fileName);
  */
 void android_closeEventTagMap(EventTagMap* map);
 
-/*
- * Look up a tag by index.  Returns the tag string, or NULL if not found.
- */
-const char* android_lookupEventTag(const EventTagMap* map, unsigned int tag)
-    __attribute__((
-        deprecated("use android_lookupEventTag_len() instead to minimize "
-                   "MAP_PRIVATE copy-on-write memory impact")));
-
 /*
  * Look up a tag by index.  Returns the tag string & string length, or NULL if
  * not found.  Returned string is not guaranteed to be nul terminated.