diff --git a/telethon/_client/telegrambaseclient.py b/telethon/_client/telegrambaseclient.py
index 9fbf3f14..62dc09b0 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/telegrambaseclient.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/telegrambaseclient.py
@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@ def init(
         auto_reconnect=self._auto_reconnect,
         connect_timeout=self._connect_timeout,
         update_callback=self._handle_update,
-        auto_reconnect_callback=self._handle_auto_reconnect
     )
 
     # Cache ``{dc_id: (_ExportState, MTProtoSender)}`` for all borrowed senders.
diff --git a/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py b/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
index 5f555b06..412e7b61 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
@@ -3513,10 +3513,6 @@ class TelegramClient:
     def _handle_update(self: 'TelegramClient', update):
         pass
 
-    @forward_call(updates._handle_auto_reconnect)
-    async def _handle_auto_reconnect(self: 'TelegramClient'):
-        pass
-
     @forward_call(auth._update_session_state)
     async def _update_session_state(self, user, *, save=True):
         pass
diff --git a/telethon/_client/updates.py b/telethon/_client/updates.py
index 92515dae..4b8e29cb 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/updates.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/updates.py
@@ -347,50 +347,6 @@ async def _get_difference(self: 'TelegramClient', update, entities, channel_id,
             itertools.chain(result.users, result.chats)
         })
 
-async def _handle_auto_reconnect(self: 'TelegramClient'):
-    # TODO Catch-up
-    # For now we make a high-level request to let Telegram
-    # know we are still interested in receiving more updates.
-    try:
-        await self.get_me()
-    except Exception as e:
-        self._log[__name__].warning('Error executing high-level request '
-                                    'after reconnect: %s: %s', type(e), e)
-
-    return
-    try:
-        self._log[__name__].info(
-            'Asking for the current state after reconnect...')
-
-        # TODO consider:
-        # If there aren't many updates while the client is disconnected
-        # (I tried with up to 20), Telegram seems to send them without
-        # asking for them (via updates.getDifference).
-        #
-        # On disconnection, the library should probably set a "need
-        # difference" or "catching up" flag so that any new updates are
-        # ignored, and then the library should call updates.getDifference
-        # itself to fetch them.
-        #
-        # In any case (either there are too many updates and Telegram
-        # didn't send them, or there isn't a lot and Telegram sent them
-        # but we dropped them), we fetch the new difference to get all
-        # missed updates. I feel like this would be the best solution.
-
-        # If a disconnection occurs, the old known state will be
-        # the latest one we were aware of, so we can catch up since
-        # the most recent state we were aware of.
-        await self.catch_up()
-
-        self._log[__name__].info('Successfully fetched missed updates')
-    except RpcError as e:
-        self._log[__name__].warning('Failed to get missed updates after '
-                                    'reconnect: %r', e)
-    except Exception:
-        self._log[__name__].exception(
-            'Unhandled exception while getting update difference after reconnect')
-
-
 class EventBuilderDict:
     """
     Helper "dictionary" to return events from types and cache them.
diff --git a/telethon/_network/mtprotosender.py b/telethon/_network/mtprotosender.py
index 92438502..b05137e3 100644
--- a/telethon/_network/mtprotosender.py
+++ b/telethon/_network/mtprotosender.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class MTProtoSender:
     """
     def __init__(self, *, loggers,
                  retries=5, delay=1, auto_reconnect=True, connect_timeout=None,
-                 update_callback=None, auto_reconnect_callback=None):
+                 update_callback=None):
         self._connection = None
         self._loggers = loggers
         self._log = loggers[__name__]
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ class MTProtoSender:
         self._auto_reconnect = auto_reconnect
         self._connect_timeout = connect_timeout
         self._update_callback = update_callback
-        self._auto_reconnect_callback = auto_reconnect_callback
         self._connect_lock = asyncio.Lock()
         self._ping = None
 
@@ -373,10 +372,6 @@ class MTProtoSender:
             else:
                 self._send_queue.extend(self._pending_state.values())
                 self._pending_state.clear()
-
-                if self._auto_reconnect_callback:
-                    asyncio.create_task(self._auto_reconnect_callback())
-
                 break
         else:
             ok = False