diff --git a/android/config.go b/android/config.go
index bed57e3b5..14fc04d11 100644
--- a/android/config.go
+++ b/android/config.go
@@ -1710,10 +1710,6 @@ func (c *config) ProductPrivateSepolicyDirs() []string {
 	return c.productVariables.ProductPrivateSepolicyDirs
 }
 
-func (c *config) MissingUsesLibraries() []string {
-	return c.productVariables.MissingUsesLibraries
-}
-
 func (c *config) TargetMultitreeUpdateMeta() bool {
 	return c.productVariables.MultitreeUpdateMeta
 }
diff --git a/android/variable.go b/android/variable.go
index 77888e586..972663bb0 100644
--- a/android/variable.go
+++ b/android/variable.go
@@ -420,8 +420,6 @@ type productVariables struct {
 
 	TargetFSConfigGen []string `json:",omitempty"`
 
-	MissingUsesLibraries []string `json:",omitempty"`
-
 	EnforceProductPartitionInterface *bool `json:",omitempty"`
 
 	EnforceInterPartitionJavaSdkLibrary *bool    `json:",omitempty"`
diff --git a/java/app.go b/java/app.go
index d99c1843d..58580d420 100755
--- a/java/app.go
+++ b/java/app.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package java
 // related module types, including their override variants.
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -1391,10 +1392,15 @@ func (u *usesLibrary) deps(ctx android.BottomUpMutatorContext, addCompatDeps boo
 	}
 }
 
-// presentOptionalUsesLibs returns optional_uses_libs after filtering out MissingUsesLibraries, which don't exist in the
-// build.
+// presentOptionalUsesLibs returns optional_uses_libs after filtering out libraries that don't exist in the source tree.
 func (u *usesLibrary) presentOptionalUsesLibs(ctx android.BaseModuleContext) []string {
-	optionalUsesLibs, _ := android.FilterList(u.usesLibraryProperties.Optional_uses_libs, ctx.Config().MissingUsesLibraries())
+	optionalUsesLibs := android.FilterListPred(u.usesLibraryProperties.Optional_uses_libs, func(s string) bool {
+		exists := ctx.OtherModuleExists(s)
+		if !exists {
+			fmt.Printf("Warning: Module '%s' depends on non-existing optional_uses_libs '%s'\n", ctx.ModuleName(), s)
+		}
+		return exists
+	})
 	return optionalUsesLibs
 }
 
diff --git a/java/app_test.go b/java/app_test.go
index 68e9d11f7..5aed17876 100644
--- a/java/app_test.go
+++ b/java/app_test.go
@@ -2644,9 +2644,6 @@ func TestUsesLibraries(t *testing.T) {
 		prepareForJavaTest,
 		PrepareForTestWithJavaSdkLibraryFiles,
 		FixtureWithLastReleaseApis("runtime-library", "foo", "quuz", "qux", "bar", "fred"),
-		android.FixtureModifyProductVariables(func(variables android.FixtureProductVariables) {
-			variables.MissingUsesLibraries = []string{"baz"}
-		}),
 	).RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
 
 	app := result.ModuleForTests("app", "android_common")