diff --git a/client/src/api/schema/schema.ts b/client/src/api/schema/schema.ts
index 18c5d59d813..b2be140478e 100644
--- a/client/src/api/schema/schema.ts
+++ b/client/src/api/schema/schema.ts
@@ -13858,7 +13858,6 @@ export interface operations {
              * Free text search terms will be searched against the following attributes of the
              * Historys: `title`, `description`, `slug`, `tag`.
              */
-            /** @description Filtering parameters are evaluated in q/qv-mode */
             /** @description Whether all histories from other users in this Galaxy should be included. Only admins are allowed to query all histories. */
             /**
              * @deprecated
@@ -13878,7 +13877,6 @@ export interface operations {
                 sort_by?: "create_time" | "name" | "update_time" | "username";
                 sort_desc?: boolean;
                 search?: string | null;
-                qqv_mode?: boolean | null;
                 all?: boolean | null;
                 deleted?: boolean | null;
                 q?: string[] | null;
diff --git a/client/src/components/Grid/configs/histories.ts b/client/src/components/Grid/configs/histories.ts
index e3585dbb1da..3042aa51598 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Grid/configs/histories.ts
+++ b/client/src/components/Grid/configs/histories.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ async function getData(offset: number, limit: number, search: string, sort_by: s
     const { data, headers } = await historiesQuery({
         limit,
         offset,
-        qqv_mode: false,
         search,
         sort_by: sort_by as SortKeyLiteral,
         sort_desc,
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/webapps/galaxy/api/histories.py b/lib/galaxy/webapps/galaxy/api/histories.py
index 8f6ca2bfe42..b38f708524f 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/webapps/galaxy/api/histories.py
+++ b/lib/galaxy/webapps/galaxy/api/histories.py
@@ -108,12 +108,6 @@ JehaIDPathParam: Union[DecodedDatabaseIdField, LatestLiteral] = Path(
     examples=["latest"],
 )
 
-QQVModeParam: bool = Query(
-    default=True,
-    title="Use query parameters q/qv-mode",
-    description="Filtering parameters are evaluated in q/qv-mode",
-)
-
 SearchQueryParam: Optional[str] = search_query_param(
     model_name="History",
     tags=query_tags,
@@ -183,7 +177,6 @@ class FastAPIHistories:
         sort_by: HistorySortByEnum = SortByQueryParam,
         sort_desc: bool = SortDescQueryParam,
         search: Optional[str] = SearchQueryParam,
-        qqv_mode: Optional[bool] = QQVModeParam,
         filter_query_params: FilterQueryParams = Depends(get_filter_query_params),
         serialization_params: SerializationParams = Depends(query_serialization_params),
         all: Optional[bool] = AllHistoriesQueryParam,
@@ -194,7 +187,7 @@ class FastAPIHistories:
             deprecated=True,  # Marked as deprecated as it seems just like '/api/histories/deleted'
         ),
     ) -> Union[List[AnyHistoryView], HistoryQueryResultList]:
-        if qqv_mode:
+        if search is None:
             return self.service.index(
                 trans, serialization_params, filter_query_params, deleted_only=deleted, all_histories=all
             )