diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/upgrade/node/kubeletconfig.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/upgrade/node/kubeletconfig.go
index 22fd3bff625..773b5a8d7ad 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/upgrade/node/kubeletconfig.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/upgrade/node/kubeletconfig.go
@@ -20,22 +20,15 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
-	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
-
-	kubeadmapi "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm"
-	kubeadmapiv1 "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta3"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/options"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow"
 	cmdutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/util"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants"
 	kubeletphase "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/kubelet"
-	patchnodephase "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/patchnode"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade"
-	configutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config"
 	dryrunutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/dryrun"
 )
 
@@ -92,40 +85,6 @@ func runKubeletConfigPhase() func(c workflow.RunData) error {
 			return nil
 		}
 
-		// Handle a missing URL scheme in the Node CRI socket.
-		// Older versions of kubeadm tolerate CRI sockets without URL schemes (/var/run/foo without unix://).
-		// During "upgrade node" for worker nodes the cfg.NodeRegistration would be left empty.
-		// This requires to call GetNodeRegistration on demand and fetch the node name and CRI socket.
-		// If the NodeRegistration (nro) contains a socket without a URL scheme, update it.
-		//
-		// TODO: this workaround can be removed in 1.25 once all user node sockets have a URL scheme:
-		// https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/2426
-		var missingURLScheme bool
-		nro := &kubeadmapi.NodeRegistrationOptions{}
-		if !dryRun {
-			if err := configutil.GetNodeRegistration(data.KubeConfigPath(), data.Client(), nro); err != nil {
-				return errors.Wrap(err, "could not retrieve the node registration options for this node")
-			}
-			missingURLScheme = strings.HasPrefix(nro.CRISocket, kubeadmapiv1.DefaultContainerRuntimeURLScheme)
-		}
-		if missingURLScheme {
-			if !dryRun {
-				newSocket := kubeadmapiv1.DefaultContainerRuntimeURLScheme + "://" + nro.CRISocket
-				klog.V(2).Infof("ensuring that Node %q has a CRI socket annotation with URL scheme %q", nro.Name, newSocket)
-				if err := patchnodephase.AnnotateCRISocket(data.Client(), nro.Name, newSocket); err != nil {
-					return errors.Wrapf(err, "error updating the CRI socket for Node %q", nro.Name)
-				}
-			} else {
-				fmt.Println("[upgrade] Would update the node CRI socket path to include an URL scheme")
-			}
-		}
-
-		// TODO: Temporary workaround. Remove in 1.25:
-		// https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/2426
-		if err := upgrade.UpdateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme(dryRun); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
 		fmt.Println("[upgrade] The configuration for this node was successfully updated!")
 		fmt.Println("[upgrade] Now you should go ahead and upgrade the kubelet package using your package manager.")
 		return nil
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/postupgrade.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/postupgrade.go
index 5d2977396d7..4d1c21b65ee 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/postupgrade.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/postupgrade.go
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
@@ -69,12 +68,6 @@ func PerformPostUpgradeTasks(client clientset.Interface, cfg *kubeadmapi.InitCon
 		errs = append(errs, err)
 	}
 
-	// TODO: Temporary workaround. Remove in 1.25:
-	// https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/2426
-	if err := UpdateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme(dryRun); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	// Annotate the node with the crisocket information, sourced either from the InitConfiguration struct or
 	// --cri-socket.
 	// TODO: In the future we want to use something more official like NodeStatus or similar for detecting this properly
@@ -274,29 +267,6 @@ func AddNewControlPlaneTaint(client clientset.Interface) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// UpdateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme reads the kubelet dynamic environment file
-// from disk, ensure that the CRI endpoint flag has a scheme prefix and writes it
-// back to disk.
-// TODO: Temporary workaround. Remove in 1.25:
-// https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/2426
-func UpdateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme(dryRun bool) error {
-	filePath := filepath.Join(kubeadmconstants.KubeletRunDirectory, kubeadmconstants.KubeletEnvFileName)
-	if dryRun {
-		fmt.Printf("[upgrade] Would ensure that %q includes a CRI endpoint URL scheme\n", filePath)
-		return nil
-	}
-	klog.V(2).Infof("Ensuring that %q includes a CRI endpoint URL scheme", filePath)
-	bytes, err := os.ReadFile(filePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to read kubelet configuration from file %q", filePath)
-	}
-	updated := updateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme(string(bytes))
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filePath, []byte(updated), 0644); err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to write kubelet configuration to the file %q", filePath)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 func updateKubeletDynamicEnvFileWithURLScheme(str string) string {
 	const (
 		flag   = "container-runtime-endpoint"