diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2334bc7169..c34c5b48c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - When merging tombstones with Native SDK, use the tombstone message if the Native SDK didn't explicitly provide one. ([#5095](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5095))
 - Fix thread leak caused by eager creation of `SentryExecutorService` in `SentryOptions` ([#5093](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5093))
   - There were cases where we created options that ended up unused but we failed to clean those up.
+- Attach user attributes to logs and metrics regardless of `sendDefaultPii` ([#5099](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5099))
 - No longer log a warning if a logging integration cannot initialize Sentry due to missing DSN ([#5075](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5075))
   - While this may have been useful to some, it caused lots of confusion.
 - Session Replay: Add `androidx.camera.view.PreviewView` to default `maskedViewClasses` to mask camera previews by default. ([#5097](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5097))
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/logger/LoggerApi.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/logger/LoggerApi.java
index 4b047a26e3..37a485df31 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/logger/LoggerApi.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/logger/LoggerApi.java
@@ -243,9 +243,7 @@ private void captureLog(
       setServerName(attributes);
     }
 
-    if (scopes.getOptions().isSendDefaultPii()) {
-      setUser(attributes);
-    }
+    setUser(attributes);
 
     return attributes;
   }
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/metrics/MetricsApi.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/metrics/MetricsApi.java
index 08a1510049..fc16d60e0e 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/metrics/MetricsApi.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/metrics/MetricsApi.java
@@ -230,9 +230,7 @@ private void captureMetrics(
       setServerName(attributes);
     }
 
-    if (scopes.getOptions().isSendDefaultPii()) {
-      setUser(attributes);
-    }
+    setUser(attributes);
 
     return attributes;
   }
diff --git a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/ScopesTest.kt b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/ScopesTest.kt
index 60ef92e893..73a14b38e7 100644
--- a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/ScopesTest.kt
+++ b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/ScopesTest.kt
@@ -2953,7 +2953,7 @@ class ScopesTest {
   }
 
   @Test
-  fun `does not add user fields to log attributes by default`() {
+  fun `adds user fields to log attributes even if sendDefaultPii is false`() {
     val (sut, mockClient) =
       getEnabledScopes {
         it.logs.isEnabled = true
@@ -2975,9 +2975,17 @@ class ScopesTest {
         check {
           assertEquals("log message", it.body)
 
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.id"))
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.name"))
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.email"))
+          val userId = it.attributes?.get("user.id")!!
+          assertEquals("usrid", userId.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userId.type)
+
+          val userName = it.attributes?.get("user.name")!!
+          assertEquals("usrname", userName.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userName.type)
+
+          val userEmail = it.attributes?.get("user.email")!!
+          assertEquals("user@sentry.io", userEmail.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userEmail.type)
         },
         anyOrNull(),
       )
@@ -2988,7 +2996,6 @@ class ScopesTest {
     val (sut, mockClient) =
       getEnabledScopes {
         it.logs.isEnabled = true
-        it.isSendDefaultPii = true
         it.distinctId = "distinctId"
       }
 
@@ -3012,7 +3019,6 @@ class ScopesTest {
     val (sut, mockClient) =
       getEnabledScopes {
         it.logs.isEnabled = true
-        it.isSendDefaultPii = true
         it.distinctId = null
       }
 
@@ -3919,7 +3925,7 @@ class ScopesTest {
   }
 
   @Test
-  fun `does not add user fields to metric attributes by default`() {
+  fun `adds user fields to metric attributes even if sendDefaultPii is false`() {
     val (sut, mockClient) = getEnabledScopes { it.distinctId = "distinctId" }
 
     sut.configureScope { scope ->
@@ -3937,9 +3943,17 @@ class ScopesTest {
         check {
           assertEquals("metric name", it.name)
 
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.id"))
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.name"))
-          assertNull(it.attributes?.get("user.email"))
+          val userId = it.attributes?.get("user.id")!!
+          assertEquals("usrid", userId.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userId.type)
+
+          val userName = it.attributes?.get("user.name")!!
+          assertEquals("usrname", userName.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userName.type)
+
+          val userEmail = it.attributes?.get("user.email")!!
+          assertEquals("user@sentry.io", userEmail.value)
+          assertEquals("string", userEmail.type)
         },
         anyOrNull(),
         anyOrNull(),
@@ -3948,11 +3962,7 @@ class ScopesTest {
 
   @Test
   fun `unset user does provide distinct-id as user-id for metrics`() {
-    val (sut, mockClient) =
-      getEnabledScopes {
-        it.isSendDefaultPii = true
-        it.distinctId = "distinctId"
-      }
+    val (sut, mockClient) = getEnabledScopes { it.distinctId = "distinctId" }
 
     sut.metrics().count("metric name")
 
@@ -3972,11 +3982,7 @@ class ScopesTest {
 
   @Test
   fun `unset user does provide null user-id when distinct-id is missing for metrics`() {
-    val (sut, mockClient) =
-      getEnabledScopes {
-        it.isSendDefaultPii = true
-        it.distinctId = null
-      }
+    val (sut, mockClient) = getEnabledScopes { it.distinctId = null }
 
     sut.metrics().count("metric name")