diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/__init__.py b/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/__init__.py
index 33e0ff6c03..3aebd13797 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/__init__.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/__init__.py
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-# This is kept in 0.97.0 and then will be removed
-from .template_tools import (
-    get_template_amplitudes,
-    get_template_extremum_channel,
-    get_template_extremum_channel_peak_shift,
-    get_template_extremum_amplitude,
-    get_template_channel_sparsity,
-)
-
 from .template_metrics import (
     TemplateMetricsCalculator,
     compute_template_metrics,
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_tools.py b/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_tools.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d992a0046..0000000000
--- a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_tools.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-# This is kept in 0.97.0 and then will be removed
-
-import warnings
-
-import spikeinterface.core.template_tools as tt
-
-
-def _warn():
-    warnings.warn(
-        "The spikeinterface.postprocessing.template_tools is submodule is deprecated."
-        "Use spikeinterface.core.template_tools instead",
-        DeprecationWarning,
-        stacklevel=2,
-    )
-
-
-def get_template_amplitudes(*args, **kwargs):
-    _warn()
-    return tt.get_template_amplitudes(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-def get_template_extremum_channel(*args, **kwargs):
-    _warn()
-    return tt.get_template_extremum_channel(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-def get_template_channel_sparsity(*args, **kwargs):
-    _warn()
-    return tt.get_template_channel_sparsity(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-def get_template_extremum_channel_peak_shift(*args, **kwargs):
-    _warn()
-    return tt.get_template_extremum_channel_peak_shift(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-def get_template_extremum_amplitude(*args, **kwargs):
-    _warn()
-    return tt.get_template_extremum_amplitude(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sortingcomponents/matching/naive.py b/src/spikeinterface/sortingcomponents/matching/naive.py
index 4b04462e45..9482d50f9a 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sortingcomponents/matching/naive.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sortingcomponents/matching/naive.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 """Sorting components: template matching."""
 
 import numpy as np
-from spikeinterface.core import WaveformExtractor
+from spikeinterface.core import WaveformExtractor, get_template_channel_sparsity, get_template_extremum_channel
 from spikeinterface.core import get_noise_levels, get_channel_distances, get_chunk_with_margin, get_random_data_chunks
-from spikeinterface.postprocessing import get_template_channel_sparsity, get_template_extremum_channel
-
 from spikeinterface.sortingcomponents.peak_detection import DetectPeakLocallyExclusive
 
 spike_dtype = [