diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/gfm_auto_complete.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/gfm_auto_complete.js.es6
index 19bfdf1de8c4b029d537ca10c2ca5d971fe240a2..58c1179d250ffc84b6821aa11d2f3ba395f56e7a 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/gfm_auto_complete.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/gfm_auto_complete.js.es6
@@ -51,11 +51,6 @@
         if (!GitLab.GfmAutoComplete.dataLoaded) {
           return this.at;
         } else {
-          if (value.indexOf("unlabel") !== -1) {
-            GitLab.GfmAutoComplete.input.atwho('load', '~', GitLab.GfmAutoComplete.cachedData.unlabels);
-          } else {
-            GitLab.GfmAutoComplete.input.atwho('load', '~', GitLab.GfmAutoComplete.cachedData.labels);
-          }
           return value;
         }
       }
@@ -363,4 +358,3 @@
   };
 
 }).call(this);
-
diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index 7376c2bfeb75eb2d0cdb995ab1f2c75036c4aafa..a8a18b4fa1673c7a48a9c6fd8aee27f564f12cca 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -144,15 +144,13 @@ class ProjectsController < Projects::ApplicationController
 
     autocomplete = ::Projects::AutocompleteService.new(@project, current_user)
     participants = ::Projects::ParticipantsService.new(@project, current_user).execute(noteable)
-    unlabels = autocomplete.unlabels(noteable)
 
     @suggestions = {
       emojis: Gitlab::AwardEmoji.urls,
       issues: autocomplete.issues,
       milestones: autocomplete.milestones,
       mergerequests: autocomplete.merge_requests,
-      labels: autocomplete.labels - unlabels,
-      unlabels: unlabels,
+      labels: autocomplete.labels,
       members: participants,
       commands: autocomplete.commands(noteable, params[:type])
     }
diff --git a/app/services/projects/autocomplete_service.rb b/app/services/projects/autocomplete_service.rb
index 223461e88b647a11c05f2fdabecee29ea2a09078..015f282892117513f8999f2c0e27de40d8a46483 100644
--- a/app/services/projects/autocomplete_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/projects/autocomplete_service.rb
@@ -13,14 +13,7 @@ module Projects
     end
 
     def labels
-      LabelsFinder.new(current_user, project_id: project.id).execute.
-        pluck(:title, :color).map { |l| { title: l.first, color: l.second } }
-    end
-
-    def unlabels(noteable)
-      return [] unless noteable && noteable.respond_to?(:labels)
-
-      noteable.labels.pluck(:title, :color).map { |l| { title: l.first, color: l.second } }
+      LabelsFinder.new(current_user, project_id: project.id).execute.select([:title, :color])
     end
 
     def commands(noteable, type)
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/22680-unlabel-limit-autocomplete-to-selected-items.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/22680-unlabel-limit-autocomplete-to-selected-items.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 95fd07c12e1054c199cff46443a281ca9c2d8058..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/22680-unlabel-limit-autocomplete-to-selected-items.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Limit autocomplete to currently selected items for unlabel slash command
-merge_request: 22680
-author: Akram Fares