diff --git a/docling/models/hf_vlm_model.py b/docling/models/hf_vlm_model.py
index e82a34d0..20a1c7dd 100644
--- a/docling/models/hf_vlm_model.py
+++ b/docling/models/hf_vlm_model.py
@@ -6,16 +6,6 @@ _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class HuggingFaceVlmModel:
-    @staticmethod
-    def map_device_to_cpu_if_mlx(device: str) -> str:
-        if device == "mps":
-            _log.warning(
-                "Mapping mlx to cpu for AutoModelForCausalLM, use MLX framework!"
-            )
-            return "cpu"
-
-        return device
-
     @staticmethod
     def download_models(
         repo_id: str,