diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index f22eb4a2..1643cccc 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ importFrom(S4Vectors,isSequence)
 importFrom(S4Vectors,make_zero_col_DFrame)
 importFrom(S4Vectors,metadata)
 importFrom(S4Vectors,setValidity2)
-importFrom(S4Vectors,transform)
 importFrom(SingleCellExperiment,"int_colData<-")
 importFrom(SingleCellExperiment,"int_metadata<-")
 importFrom(SingleCellExperiment,SingleCellExperiment)
diff --git a/R/AllGenerics.R b/R/AllGenerics.R
index ae792eec..1ab28674 100644
--- a/R/AllGenerics.R
+++ b/R/AllGenerics.R
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ setGeneric("point", \(x, ...) standardGeneric("point"))
 # get all ----
 
 setGeneric("images", \(x, ...) standardGeneric("images"))
-setGeneric("labels", \(object, ...) standardGeneric("labels"))
 setGeneric("shapes", \(x, ...) standardGeneric("shapes"))
 setGeneric("points", \(x, ...) standardGeneric("points"))
 setGeneric("tables", \(x, ...) standardGeneric("tables"))
diff --git a/R/trans.R b/R/trans.R
index d26a8e49..912c5bc0 100644
--- a/R/trans.R
+++ b/R/trans.R
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ NULL
 
 #' @export
 #' @rdname trans
-#' @importFrom S4Vectors transform
 setMethod("transform", "SpatialDataElement", \(`_data`, i=1, ...) {
     stopifnot(
         length(i) == 1, is.character(i) |