diff --git a/native/components/background-identity-login-handler.react.js b/native/components/background-identity-login-handler.react.js
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/native/components/background-identity-login-handler.react.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-// @flow
-
-import * as React from 'react';
-
-import {
-  identityLogInActionTypes,
-  useIdentityPasswordLogIn,
-  logOutActionTypes,
-  useLogOut,
-} from 'lib/actions/user-actions.js';
-import { useIsLoggedInToIdentityAndAuthoritativeKeyserver } from 'lib/hooks/account-hooks.js';
-import { accountHasPassword } from 'lib/shared/account-utils.js';
-import { securityUpdateLogoutText } from 'lib/types/alert-types.js';
-import { useDispatchActionPromise } from 'lib/utils/redux-promise-utils.js';
-import { useSelector } from 'lib/utils/redux-utils.js';
-
-import { fetchNativeKeychainCredentials } from '../account/native-credentials.js';
-import { useIsAppLoggedIn } from '../navigation/nav-selectors.js';
-import Alert from '../utils/alert.js';
-
-function BackgroundIdentityLoginHandler() {
-  const dispatchActionPromise = useDispatchActionPromise();
-  const callLogOut = useLogOut();
-
-  const isAccountWithPassword = useSelector(state =>
-    accountHasPassword(state.currentUserInfo),
-  );
-  const hasAccessToken = useSelector(state => !!state.commServicesAccessToken);
-
-  const loggedIn = useIsLoggedInToIdentityAndAuthoritativeKeyserver();
-  const navLoggedIn = useIsAppLoggedIn();
-
-  // We don't want to try identity login until both loggedIn and navLoggedIn are
-  // true. The former is to make sure that we will be able to successfully log
-  // in with identity. The latter is to address a race condition in ENG-8785.
-  const readyToTryIdentityLogin = loggedIn && navLoggedIn;
-
-  const callIdentityPasswordLogIn = useIdentityPasswordLogIn();
-
-  const handleLogOutAndAlert = React.useCallback(() => {
-    void dispatchActionPromise(logOutActionTypes, callLogOut());
-    Alert.alert('Security update', securityUpdateLogoutText, [{ text: 'OK' }]);
-  }, [dispatchActionPromise, callLogOut]);
-
-  const loginAttemptedRef = React.useRef(false);
-
-  const logInIfPossibleElseLogOut = React.useCallback(async () => {
-    if (
-      hasAccessToken ||
-      !readyToTryIdentityLogin ||
-      loginAttemptedRef.current
-    ) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    if (!isAccountWithPassword) {
-      handleLogOutAndAlert();
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const nativeCredentials = await fetchNativeKeychainCredentials();
-    if (!nativeCredentials) {
-      console.log(
-        'Native credentials missing. Cannot log in to identity service',
-      );
-      handleLogOutAndAlert();
-      return;
-    }
-
-    if (loginAttemptedRef.current) {
-      return;
-    }
-    loginAttemptedRef.current = true;
-
-    const logInPromise = callIdentityPasswordLogIn(
-      nativeCredentials.username,
-      nativeCredentials.password,
-    );
-    void dispatchActionPromise(identityLogInActionTypes, logInPromise);
-
-    try {
-      await logInPromise;
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.log('BackgroundIdentityLoginHandler failed identity login', e);
-      handleLogOutAndAlert();
-    }
-  }, [
-    callIdentityPasswordLogIn,
-    dispatchActionPromise,
-    readyToTryIdentityLogin,
-    handleLogOutAndAlert,
-    hasAccessToken,
-    isAccountWithPassword,
-  ]);
-
-  React.useEffect(() => {
-    void logInIfPossibleElseLogOut();
-  }, [logInIfPossibleElseLogOut]);
-}
-
-export default BackgroundIdentityLoginHandler;
diff --git a/native/root.react.js b/native/root.react.js
--- a/native/root.react.js
+++ b/native/root.react.js
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
 import MessageEditingContextProvider from './chat/message-editing-context-provider.react.js';
 import AccessTokenHandler from './components/access-token-handler.react.js';
 import { AutoJoinCommunityHandler } from './components/auto-join-community-handler.react.js';
-import BackgroundIdentityLoginHandler from './components/background-identity-login-handler.react.js';
 import ColdStartTracker from './components/cold-start-tracker.react.js';
 import ConnectFarcasterAlertHandler from './components/connect-farcaster-alert-handler.react.js';
 import DisplayCommunityDirectoryPromptHandler from './components/display-community-directory-prompt.react.js';
@@ -403,7 +402,6 @@
                                                         <DMActivityHandler />
                                                         <VersionSupportedChecker />
                                                         <PlatformDetailsSynchronizer />
-                                                        <BackgroundIdentityLoginHandler />
                                                         <PrekeysHandler />
                                                         <ReportHandler />
                                                         <FarcasterChannelPrefetchHandler />