diff --git a/cli/src/android/update.ts b/cli/src/android/update.ts
index 45275bddc..8da8d8d9d 100644
--- a/cli/src/android/update.ts
+++ b/cli/src/android/update.ts
@@ -263,8 +263,6 @@ if (hasProperty('postBuildExtras')) {
 
 export async function handleCordovaPluginsGradle(config: Config, cordovaPlugins: Plugin[]): Promise<void> {
   const pluginsGradlePath = join(config.android.cordovaPluginsDirAbs, 'build.gradle');
-  const kotlinNeeded = await kotlinNeededCheck(config, cordovaPlugins);
-  const kotlinVersionString = config.app.extConfig.cordova?.preferences?.GradlePluginKotlinVersion ?? '2.4.0';
   const frameworksArray: any[] = [];
   let prefsArray: any[] = [];
   const applyArray: any[] = [];
@@ -296,10 +294,6 @@ export async function handleCordovaPluginsGradle(config: Config, cordovaPlugins:
     })
     .join('\n');
   frameworkString = await replaceFrameworkVariables(config, prefsArray, frameworkString);
-  if (kotlinNeeded) {
-    frameworkString += `\n    implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:$androidxCoreKTXVersion"`;
-    frameworkString += `\n    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"`;
-  }
   const applyString = applyArray.join('\n');
   let buildGradle = await readFile(pluginsGradlePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' });
   buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
@@ -310,28 +304,6 @@ export async function handleCordovaPluginsGradle(config: Config, cordovaPlugins:
     /(PLUGIN GRADLE EXTENSIONS START)[\s\S]*(\/\/ PLUGIN GRADLE EXTENSIONS END)/,
     '$1\n' + applyString.concat('\n') + '$2',
   );
-  if (kotlinNeeded) {
-    buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
-      /(buildscript\s{\n(\t|\s{4})repositories\s{\n((\t{2}|\s{8}).+\n)+(\t|\s{4})}\n(\t|\s{4})dependencies\s{\n(\t{2}|\s{8}).+)\n((\t|\s{4})}\n}\n)/,
-      `$1\n        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"\n$8`,
-    );
-    buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
-      /(ext\s{)/,
-      `$1\n    androidxCoreKTXVersion = project.hasProperty('androidxCoreKTXVersion') ? rootProject.ext.androidxCoreKTXVersion : '1.8.0'`,
-    );
-    buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
-      /(buildscript\s{)/,
-      `$1\n    ext.kotlin_version = project.hasProperty('kotlin_version') ? rootProject.ext.kotlin_version : '${kotlinVersionString}'`,
-    );
-    buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
-      /(apply\splugin:\s'com\.android\.library')/,
-      `$1\napply plugin: 'kotlin-android'`,
-    );
-    buildGradle = buildGradle.replace(
-      /(compileOptions\s{\n((\t{2}|\s{8}).+\n)+(\t|\s{4})})\n(})/,
-      `$1\n    sourceSets {\n        main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'\n    }\n$5`,
-    );
-  }
   await writeFile(pluginsGradlePath, buildGradle);
   const cordovaVariables = `// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! IT IS GENERATED EACH TIME "capacitor update" IS RUN
 ext {
@@ -343,25 +315,6 @@ ext {
   await writeFile(join(config.android.cordovaPluginsDirAbs, 'cordova.variables.gradle'), cordovaVariables);
 }
 
-async function kotlinNeededCheck(config: Config, cordovaPlugins: Plugin[]) {
-  if (config.app.extConfig.cordova?.preferences?.GradlePluginKotlinEnabled !== 'true') {
-    for (const plugin of cordovaPlugins) {
-      const androidPlatform = getPluginPlatform(plugin, platform);
-      const sourceFiles = androidPlatform['source-file'];
-      if (sourceFiles) {
-        for (const srcFile of sourceFiles) {
-          if (/^.*\.kt$/.test(srcFile['$'].src)) {
-            return true;
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-    return false;
-  } else {
-    return true;
-  }
-}
-
 async function copyPluginsNativeFiles(config: Config, cordovaPlugins: Plugin[]) {
   const pluginsPath = join(config.android.cordovaPluginsDirAbs, 'src', 'main');
   for (const p of cordovaPlugins) {