diff --git a/opentelemetry-appender-log/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-appender-log/Cargo.toml
index 17bf2c3049..f383b0b322 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-appender-log/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-appender-log/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ serde = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["std"] }
 [features]
 logs_level_enabled = ["opentelemetry/logs_level_enabled"]
 with-serde = ["log/kv_serde", "serde"]
-default = ["logs_level_enabled"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../opentelemetry-sdk", features = [ "testing", "logs_level_enabled" ] }
diff --git a/opentelemetry-appender-tracing/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-appender-tracing/Cargo.toml
index 87db2e115f..7ce1834746 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-appender-tracing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-appender-tracing/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ criterion = { workspace = true }
 [features]
 experimental_metadata_attributes = ["dep:tracing-log"]
 logs_level_enabled = ["opentelemetry/logs_level_enabled"]
-default = ["logs_level_enabled"]
 
 
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