diff --git a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.cc b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.cc
index 5b31e3cb9f..15f3e17801 100644
--- a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.cc
+++ b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.cc
@@ -113,14 +113,6 @@ void AecState::GetResidualEchoScaling(
                                           residual_scaling);
 }
 
-absl::optional<float> AecState::ErleUncertainty() const {
-  if (SaturatedEcho()) {
-    return 1.f;
-  }
-
-  return absl::nullopt;
-}
-
 AecState::AecState(const EchoCanceller3Config& config,
                    size_t num_capture_channels)
     : data_dumper_(
diff --git a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.h b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.h
index 5b40e9513a..22b4fed4a2 100644
--- a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.h
+++ b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/aec_state.h
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@ class AecState {
     return erle_estimator_.Erle();
   }
 
-  // Returns an offset to apply to the estimation of the residual echo
-  // computation. Returning nullopt means that no offset should be used, while
-  // any other value will be applied as a multiplier to the estimated residual
-  // echo.
-  absl::optional<float> ErleUncertainty() const;
-
   // Returns the fullband ERLE estimate in log2 units.
   float FullBandErleLog2() const { return erle_estimator_.FullbandErleLog2(); }
 
diff --git a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/residual_echo_estimator.cc b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/residual_echo_estimator.cc
index e352cf5552..0567b546c9 100644
--- a/modules/audio_processing/aec3/residual_echo_estimator.cc
+++ b/modules/audio_processing/aec3/residual_echo_estimator.cc
@@ -84,22 +84,6 @@ void LinearEstimate(
   }
 }
 
-// Estimates the residual echo power based on an uncertainty estimate of the
-// echo return loss enhancement (ERLE) and the linear power estimate.
-void LinearEstimate(
-    rtc::ArrayView<const std::array<float, kFftLengthBy2Plus1>> S2_linear,
-    float erle_uncertainty,
-    rtc::ArrayView<std::array<float, kFftLengthBy2Plus1>> R2) {
-  RTC_DCHECK_EQ(S2_linear.size(), R2.size());
-
-  const size_t num_capture_channels = R2.size();
-  for (size_t ch = 0; ch < num_capture_channels; ++ch) {
-    for (size_t k = 0; k < kFftLengthBy2Plus1; ++k) {
-      R2[ch][k] = S2_linear[ch][k] * erle_uncertainty;
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 // Estimates the residual echo power based on the estimate of the echo path
 // gain.
 void NonLinearEstimate(
@@ -201,12 +185,7 @@ void ResidualEchoEstimator::Estimate(
         std::copy(Y2[ch].begin(), Y2[ch].end(), R2[ch].begin());
       }
     } else {
-      absl::optional<float> erle_uncertainty = aec_state.ErleUncertainty();
-      if (erle_uncertainty) {
-        LinearEstimate(S2_linear, *erle_uncertainty, R2);
-      } else {
-        LinearEstimate(S2_linear, aec_state.Erle(), R2);
-      }
+      LinearEstimate(S2_linear, aec_state.Erle(), R2);
     }
 
     AddReverb(ReverbType::kLinear, aec_state, render_buffer, R2);