diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/react/hooks.tsx b/apps/client/src/widgets/react/hooks.tsx
index 8071c962e..b4059ebfe 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/react/hooks.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/react/hooks.tsx
@@ -104,33 +104,6 @@ export function useTriliumOption(name: OptionNames, needsRefresh?: boolean): [st
     ]
 }
 
-export function useTriliumOptionBeta(name: OptionNames, needsRefresh?: boolean): [string, (newValue: OptionValue) => Promise<void>] {
-    const initialValue = options.get(name);
-    const [ value, setValue ] = useState(initialValue);
-
-    const wrappedSetValue = useMemo(() => {
-        return async (newValue: OptionValue) => {
-            await options.save(name, newValue);
-
-            if (needsRefresh) {
-                reloadFrontendApp(`option change: ${name}`);
-            }
-        }
-    }, [ name, needsRefresh ]);
-
-    useTriliumEvent("entitiesReloaded", useCallback(({ loadResults }) => {
-        if (loadResults.getOptionNames().includes(name)) {
-            const newValue = options.get(name);
-            setValue(newValue);
-        }
-     }, [ name ]));
-
-    return [
-        value,
-        wrappedSetValue
-    ]
-}
-
 /**
  * Similar to {@link useTriliumOption}, but the value is converted to and from a boolean instead of a string.
  * 
diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/ribbon/BasicPropertiesTab.tsx b/apps/client/src/widgets/ribbon/BasicPropertiesTab.tsx
index 623324d52..45d6d3999 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/ribbon/BasicPropertiesTab.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/ribbon/BasicPropertiesTab.tsx
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ function SharedSwitch({ note }: { note?: FNote | null }) {
 }
 
 function NoteLanguageSwitch({ note }: { note?: FNote | null }) {
-    const [ languages ] = useTriliumOptionBeta("languages");
+    const [ languages ] = useTriliumOption("languages");
     const DEFAULT_LOCALE = {
         id: "",
         name: t("note_language.not_set")