diff --git a/src/Metadata/Resource/Factory/AlternateUriResourceMetadataCollectionFactory.php b/src/Metadata/Resource/Factory/AlternateUriResourceMetadataCollectionFactory.php
deleted file mode 100644
index c64e36f4967..00000000000
--- a/src/Metadata/Resource/Factory/AlternateUriResourceMetadataCollectionFactory.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/*
- * This file is part of the API Platform project.
- *
- * (c) Kévin Dunglas <dunglas@gmail.com>
- *
- * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
- * file that was distributed with this source code.
- */
-
-declare(strict_types=1);
-
-namespace ApiPlatform\Metadata\Resource\Factory;
-
-use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Resource\ResourceMetadataCollection;
-
-/**
- * @author Antoine Bluchet <soyuka@gmail.com>
- *
- * @deprecated BC layer, is removed in 3.0
- */
-final class AlternateUriResourceMetadataCollectionFactory implements ResourceMetadataCollectionFactoryInterface
-{
-    public function __construct(private readonly ?ResourceMetadataCollectionFactoryInterface $decorated = null)
-    {
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * {@inheritdoc}
-     */
-    public function create(string $resourceClass): ResourceMetadataCollection
-    {
-        $resourceMetadataCollection = new ResourceMetadataCollection($resourceClass);
-        if ($this->decorated) {
-            $resourceMetadataCollection = $this->decorated->create($resourceClass);
-        }
-
-        foreach ($resourceMetadataCollection as $i => $resource) {
-            if (0 === $i) {
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            $resource = $resource->withExtraProperties($resource->getExtraProperties() + ['is_alternate_resource_metadata' => true]);
-            $operations = $resource->getOperations();
-            foreach ($operations as $key => $operation) {
-                $operations->add($key, $operation->withExtraProperties($operation->getExtraProperties() + ['is_alternate_resource_metadata' => true]));
-            }
-
-            $resourceMetadataCollection[$i] = $resource->withOperations($operations);
-        }
-
-        return $resourceMetadataCollection;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/Resources/config/metadata/resource.xml b/src/Symfony/Bundle/Resources/config/metadata/resource.xml
index 91d5d1a669a..93580976c1d 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/Resources/config/metadata/resource.xml
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/Resources/config/metadata/resource.xml
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@
             <argument type="service" id="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.filters.inner" />
         </service>
 
-        <service id="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.alternate_uri" class="ApiPlatform\Metadata\Resource\Factory\AlternateUriResourceMetadataCollectionFactory" decorates="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory" decoration-priority="200" public="false">
-            <argument type="service" id="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.alternate_uri.inner" />
-        </service>
-
         <service id="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.cached" class="ApiPlatform\Metadata\Resource\Factory\CachedResourceMetadataCollectionFactory" decorates="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory" decoration-priority="-10" public="false">
             <argument type="service" id="api_platform.cache.metadata.resource_collection" />
             <argument type="service" id="api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.cached.inner" />
diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Bundle/DependencyInjection/ApiPlatformExtensionTest.php b/tests/Symfony/Bundle/DependencyInjection/ApiPlatformExtensionTest.php
index cf89456b6af..2168d665426 100644
--- a/tests/Symfony/Bundle/DependencyInjection/ApiPlatformExtensionTest.php
+++ b/tests/Symfony/Bundle/DependencyInjection/ApiPlatformExtensionTest.php
@@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ public function testMetadataConfiguration(): void
             'api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.input_output',
             'api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.formats',
             'api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.filters',
-            'api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.alternate_uri',
             'api_platform.metadata.resource.metadata_collection_factory.cached',
             'api_platform.cache.metadata.resource_collection',