diff --git a/amethyst/build.gradle b/amethyst/build.gradle
index fb4ddb6d8..ae6d0f09e 100644
--- a/amethyst/build.gradle
+++ b/amethyst/build.gradle
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ dependencies {
     // On-device alt-text suggestions: genai image description (preferred, descriptive sentences)
     // with image-labeling as a keyword-join fallback for devices without AICore.
     playImplementation libs.google.mlkit.genai.image.description
-    playImplementation libs.google.mlkit.image.labeling
 
     // PushNotifications
     playImplementation platform(libs.firebase.bom)
diff --git a/amethyst/src/play/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/ai/MLKitImageLabelService.kt b/amethyst/src/play/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/ai/MLKitImageLabelService.kt
index 25d044b34..57d734845 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/play/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/ai/MLKitImageLabelService.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/play/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/ai/MLKitImageLabelService.kt
@@ -29,14 +29,8 @@ import com.google.mlkit.genai.imagedescription.ImageDescriber
 import com.google.mlkit.genai.imagedescription.ImageDescriberOptions
 import com.google.mlkit.genai.imagedescription.ImageDescription
 import com.google.mlkit.genai.imagedescription.ImageDescriptionRequest
-import com.google.mlkit.vision.common.InputImage
-import com.google.mlkit.vision.label.ImageLabeler
-import com.google.mlkit.vision.label.ImageLabeling
-import com.google.mlkit.vision.label.defaults.ImageLabelerOptions
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
-import kotlinx.coroutines.suspendCancellableCoroutine
 import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
-import kotlin.coroutines.resume
 
 /**
  * Unified alt-text suggestion service.
@@ -47,15 +41,12 @@ import kotlin.coroutines.resume
 class MLKitImageLabelService(
     private val context: Context,
 ) {
-    private var labeler: ImageLabeler? = null
     private var describer: ImageDescriber? = null
 
     // FeatureStatus is an Int enum. Cached per-instance — describer availability does not flip
     // mid-session in practice, and one composer mount only needs to ask AICore once.
     @Volatile private var cachedGenAiStatus: Int? = null
 
-    private fun ensureLabeler(): ImageLabeler = labeler ?: ImageLabeling.getClient(ImageLabelerOptions.DEFAULT_OPTIONS).also { labeler = it }
-
     private fun ensureDescriber(): ImageDescriber? =
         describer
             ?: try {
@@ -66,26 +57,7 @@ class MLKitImageLabelService(
                 null
             }
 
-    suspend fun labelImage(uri: Uri): List<Pair<String, Float>> =
-        withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
-            try {
-                val image = InputImage.fromFilePath(context, uri)
-                val client = ensureLabeler()
-                suspendCancellableCoroutine { cont ->
-                    client
-                        .process(image)
-                        .addOnSuccessListener { labels ->
-                            cont.resume(labels.map { it.text to it.confidence })
-                        }.addOnFailureListener {
-                            cont.resume(emptyList())
-                        }
-                }
-            } catch (_: Exception) {
-                emptyList()
-            }
-        }
-
-    suspend fun suggestAltText(uri: Uri): String? = describeWithGenAi(uri) ?: labelKeywords(uri)
+    suspend fun suggestAltText(uri: Uri): String? = describeWithGenAi(uri)
 
     private suspend fun describeWithGenAi(uri: Uri): String? =
         withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
@@ -100,20 +72,13 @@ class MLKitImageLabelService(
                     .runInference(request)
                     .get()
                     .description
-                    ?.trim()
-                    ?.takeIf { it.isNotEmpty() }
+                    .trim()
+                    .takeIf { it.isNotEmpty() }
             } catch (_: Exception) {
                 null
             }
         }
 
-    private suspend fun labelKeywords(uri: Uri): String? {
-        val labels = labelImage(uri)
-        val confident = labels.filter { it.second >= MIN_CONFIDENCE }.map { it.first }
-        if (confident.isEmpty()) return null
-        return confident.take(MAX_LABELS).joinToString(", ")
-    }
-
     // Two-pass decode keeps a 12 MP camera shot from blowing past 40 MB of ARGB_8888 — the
     // on-device describer downscales internally anyway, so a ~1024 px input is plenty.
     private fun loadDownscaledBitmap(uri: Uri): Bitmap? =
@@ -136,14 +101,12 @@ class MLKitImageLabelService(
     ): Int {
         if (width <= 0 || height <= 0) return 1
         var sample = 1
-        var maxDim = maxOf(width, height)
+        val maxDim = maxOf(width, height)
         while (maxDim / sample > target) sample *= 2
         return sample
     }
 
     fun close() {
-        labeler?.close()
-        labeler = null
         describer?.close()
         describer = null
         cachedGenAiStatus = null
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 1dc29b301..c51f30efd 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ genaiProofreading = "1.0.0-beta1"
 genaiPrompt = "1.0.0-beta2"
 genaiRewriting = "1.0.0-beta1"
 genaiImageDescription = "1.0.0-beta1"
-imageLabeling = "16.0.0"
 languageId = "17.0.6"
 lifecycleRuntimeKtx = "2.10.0"
 lightcompressor-enhanced = "2.2.1"
@@ -151,7 +150,6 @@ google-mlkit-genai-proofreading = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "genai-pr
 google-mlkit-genai-prompt = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "genai-prompt", version.ref = "genaiPrompt" }
 google-mlkit-genai-rewriting = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "genai-rewriting", version.ref = "genaiRewriting" }
 google-mlkit-genai-image-description = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "genai-image-description", version.ref = "genaiImageDescription" }
-google-mlkit-image-labeling = { group = "com.google.android.gms", name = "play-services-mlkit-image-labeling", version.ref = "imageLabeling" }
 google-mlkit-language-id = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "language-id", version.ref = "languageId" }
 google-mlkit-translate = { group = "com.google.mlkit", name = "translate", version.ref = "translate" }
 jackson-module-kotlin = { group = "com.fasterxml.jackson.module", name = "jackson-module-kotlin", version.ref = "jacksonModuleKotlin" }