diff --git a/firedrake/adjoint_utils/function.py b/firedrake/adjoint_utils/function.py
index 6b78163ed7..f593bf605d 100644
--- a/firedrake/adjoint_utils/function.py
+++ b/firedrake/adjoint_utils/function.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import ufl
 from ufl.domain import extract_unique_domain
 from pyadjoint.overloaded_type import create_overloaded_object, FloatingType
-from pyadjoint.tape import annotate_tape, stop_annotating, get_working_tape, no_annotations
+from pyadjoint.tape import annotate_tape, stop_annotating, get_working_tape
 from firedrake.adjoint_utils.blocks import FunctionAssignBlock, ProjectBlock, SubfunctionBlock, FunctionMergeBlock, SupermeshProjectBlock
 import firedrake
 from .checkpointing import disk_checkpointing, CheckpointFunction, \