diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/applet.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/applet.nix
index 0b6a7e622a86..e97aa5ad274b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/applet.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/applet.nix
@@ -15,12 +15,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0lmlkh4yyl9smvkgrzshn127zqfbp9f41f448ks8dlhhm38s38v2";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/merge_requests/19
-    ./libnm-gtk-mbpi.patch
-  ];
-
   mesonFlags = [
+    "-Dlibnm_gtk=false" # It is deprecated
     "-Dselinux=false"
     "-Dappindicator=yes"
     "-Dgcr=${if withGnome then "true" else "false"}"
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/libnm-gtk-mbpi.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/libnm-gtk-mbpi.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d7eef5749dba..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/network-manager/libnm-gtk-mbpi.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
-   mobile_broadband_provider_info_dep = dependency('mobile-broadband-provider-info')
-   config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', mobile_broadband_provider_info_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('database'))
- else
--  config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', join_paths(nma_prefix, 'share', 'mobile-broadband-provider-info', 'serviceproviders.xml'))
-+  config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', join_paths(nma_datadir, 'mobile-broadband-provider-info', 'serviceproviders.xml'))
- endif
- 
- gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version: '>= 2.38')
---- a/src/libnm-gtk/nm-mobile-providers.c
-+++ b/src/libnm-gtk/nm-mobile-providers.c
-@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@
- 
- #include "nm-mobile-providers.h"
- 
--#ifndef MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO
--#define MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO DATADIR"/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml"
--#endif
--
- #define ISO_3166_COUNTRY_CODES ISO_CODES_PREFIX"/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml"
- #define ISO_CODES_LOCALESDIR ISO_CODES_PREFIX"/share/locale"
- 
-@@ -990,7 +986,7 @@
- 	if (!country_codes)
- 		country_codes = ISO_3166_COUNTRY_CODES;
- 	if (!service_providers)
--		service_providers = MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO;
-+		service_providers = MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE;
- 
- 	countries = read_country_codes (country_codes,
- 	                                cancellable,