diff --git a/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx b/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
index 42dff765f5e45..e6011fcf77a29 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import type {
 import type { FlightRouterState, FlightData } from '../../server/app-render'
 import {
   ACTION_NAVIGATE,
-  ACTION_PREFETCH,
+  // ACTION_PREFETCH,
   ACTION_RELOAD,
   ACTION_RESTORE,
   ACTION_SERVER_PATCH,
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ function ErrorOverlay({ children }: PropsWithChildren<{}>): ReactElement {
 let initialParallelRoutes: CacheNode['parallelRoutes'] =
   typeof window === 'undefined' ? null! : new Map()
 
-const prefetched = new Set<string>()
+// const prefetched = new Set<string>()
 
 /**
  * The global router that wraps the application components.
@@ -208,34 +208,32 @@ export default function AppRouter({
 
     const routerInstance: AppRouterInstance = {
       // TODO-APP: implement prefetching of flight
-      prefetch: async (href) => {
+      prefetch: async (_href) => {
         // If prefetch has already been triggered, don't trigger it again.
-        if (prefetched.has(href)) {
-          return
-        }
-
-        prefetched.add(href)
-        const url = new URL(href, location.origin)
-
-        try {
-          // TODO-APP: handle case where history.state is not the new router history entry
-          const serverResponse = await fetchServerResponse(
-            url,
-            // initialTree is used when history.state.tree is missing because the history state is set in `useEffect` below, it being missing means this is the hydration case.
-            window.history.state?.tree || initialTree,
-            true
-          )
-          // @ts-ignore startTransition exists
-          React.startTransition(() => {
-            dispatch({
-              type: ACTION_PREFETCH,
-              url,
-              serverResponse,
-            })
-          })
-        } catch (err) {
-          console.error('PREFETCH ERROR', err)
-        }
+        // if (prefetched.has(href)) {
+        //   return
+        // }
+        // prefetched.add(href)
+        // const url = new URL(href, location.origin)
+        // try {
+        //   // TODO-APP: handle case where history.state is not the new router history entry
+        //   const serverResponse = await fetchServerResponse(
+        //     url,
+        //     // initialTree is used when history.state.tree is missing because the history state is set in `useEffect` below, it being missing means this is the hydration case.
+        //     window.history.state?.tree || initialTree,
+        //     true
+        //   )
+        //   // @ts-ignore startTransition exists
+        //   React.startTransition(() => {
+        //     dispatch({
+        //       type: ACTION_PREFETCH,
+        //       url,
+        //       serverResponse,
+        //     })
+        //   })
+        // } catch (err) {
+        //   console.error('PREFETCH ERROR', err)
+        // }
       },
       replace: (href, options = {}) => {
         // @ts-ignore startTransition exists
@@ -268,7 +266,7 @@ export default function AppRouter({
     }
 
     return routerInstance
-  }, [dispatch, initialTree])
+  }, [dispatch /*, initialTree*/])
 
   useEffect(() => {
     // When mpaNavigation flag is set do a hard navigation to the new url.
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/index.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/index.test.ts
index 7794853d2b273..522efeead5efb 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/index.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/index.test.ts
@@ -418,7 +418,8 @@ describe('app dir', () => {
         }
       })
 
-      it('should soft push', async () => {
+      // TODO-APP: Re-enable this test.
+      it.skip('should soft push', async () => {
         const browser = await webdriver(next.url, '/link-soft-push')
 
         try {