diff --git a/components/freertos/include/freertos/semphr.h b/components/freertos/include/freertos/semphr.h
index 1c67a31a58..7e99c0b396 100644
--- a/components/freertos/include/freertos/semphr.h
+++ b/components/freertos/include/freertos/semphr.h
@@ -410,23 +410,6 @@ typedef QueueHandle_t SemaphoreHandle_t;
  */
 #define xSemaphoreTakeRecursive( xMutex, xBlockTime )   xQueueTakeMutexRecursive( ( xMutex ), ( xBlockTime ) )
 
-#ifdef ESP_PLATFORM // IDF-3814
-/** @cond */
-/*
- * xSemaphoreAltTake() is an alternative version of xSemaphoreTake().
- *
- * The source code that implements the alternative (Alt) API is much
- * simpler  because it executes everything from within a critical section.
- * This is  the approach taken by many other RTOSes, but FreeRTOS.org has the
- * preferred fully featured API too.  The fully featured API has more
- * complex  code that takes longer to execute, but makes much less use of
- * critical sections.  Therefore the alternative API sacrifices interrupt
- * responsiveness to gain execution speed, whereas the fully featured API
- * sacrifices execution speed to ensure better interrupt responsiveness.
- */
-#define xSemaphoreAltTake( xSemaphore, xBlockTime )     xQueueAltGenericReceive( ( QueueHandle_t ) ( xSemaphore ), NULL, ( xBlockTime ), pdFALSE )
-/** @endcond */
-#endif // ESP_PLATFORM
 /**
  * <i>Macro</i> to release a semaphore.  The semaphore must have previously been
  * created with a call to xSemaphoreCreateBinary(), xSemaphoreCreateMutex() or
@@ -579,25 +562,6 @@ typedef QueueHandle_t SemaphoreHandle_t;
  */
 #define xSemaphoreGiveRecursive( xMutex )   xQueueGiveMutexRecursive( ( xMutex ) )
 
-#ifdef ESP_PLATFORM // IDF-3814
-/** @cond */
-/*
- * xSemaphoreAltGive() is an alternative version of xSemaphoreGive().
- *
- * The source code that implements the alternative (Alt) API is much
- * simpler  because it executes everything from within a critical section.
- * This is  the approach taken by many other RTOSes, but FreeRTOS.org has the
- * preferred fully featured API too.  The fully featured API has more
- * complex  code that takes longer to execute, but makes much less use of
- * critical sections.  Therefore the alternative API sacrifices interrupt
- * responsiveness to gain execution speed, whereas the fully featured API
- * sacrifices execution speed to ensure better interrupt responsiveness.
- */
-#define xSemaphoreAltGive( xSemaphore )     xQueueAltGenericSend( ( QueueHandle_t ) ( xSemaphore ), NULL, semGIVE_BLOCK_TIME, queueSEND_TO_BACK )
-
-/** @endcond */
-#endif // ESP_PLATFORM
-
 /**
  * <i>Macro</i> to  release a semaphore.  The semaphore must have previously been
  * created with a call to xSemaphoreCreateBinary() or xSemaphoreCreateCounting().