diff --git a/services/core/java/com/android/server/StorageManagerService.java b/services/core/java/com/android/server/StorageManagerService.java
index b7d050a25484c..722b8c4de6969 100644
--- a/services/core/java/com/android/server/StorageManagerService.java
+++ b/services/core/java/com/android/server/StorageManagerService.java
@@ -4088,19 +4088,6 @@ class StorageManagerService extends IStorageManager.Stub
             boolean hasLegacy = mIAppOpsService.checkOperation(OP_LEGACY_STORAGE,
                     uid, packageName) == MODE_ALLOWED;
 
-            // Hack(b/147137425): we have to honor hasRequestedLegacyExternalStorage for a short
-            // while to enable 2 cases.
-            // 1) Apps that want to be in scoped storage in R, but want to opt out in Q devices,
-            // because they want to use raw file paths, would fail until fuse is enabled by default.
-            // 2) Test apps that target current sdk will fail. They would fail even after fuse is
-            // enabled, but we are fixing it with b/142395442. We are not planning to enable
-            // fuse by default until b/142395442 is fixed.
-            if (!hasLegacy && !mIsFuseEnabled) {
-                ApplicationInfo ai = mIPackageManager.getApplicationInfo(packageName,
-                        0, UserHandle.getUserId(uid));
-                hasLegacy = (ai != null && ai.hasRequestedLegacyExternalStorage());
-            }
-
             if (hasLegacy && hasWrite) {
                 return Zygote.MOUNT_EXTERNAL_WRITE;
             } else if (hasLegacy && hasRead) {