diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qcombobox.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qcombobox.cpp
index 06de5566ff9..1fe9a8d7be5 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qcombobox.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qcombobox.cpp
@@ -3003,24 +3003,8 @@ void QComboBox::changeEvent(QEvent *e)
     Q_D(QComboBox);
     switch (e->type()) {
     case QEvent::StyleChange:
-        if (d->container) {
-// If on Windows, force recreation of ComboBox container, since
-// windows11 style depends on WA_TranslucentBackground
-#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
-            auto delegate = itemDelegate();
-            d->container->deleteLater();
-            // d->container needs to be set explicitly to nullptr
-            // since QComboBoxPrivate::viewContainer() only
-            // creates a new QComboBoxPrivateContainer when
-            // d->container has the value of nullptr
-            d->container = nullptr;
-            d->container = d->viewContainer();
-            delegate->setParent(d->container);
-            setItemDelegate(delegate);
-
-#endif
+        if (d->container)
             d->container->updateStyleSettings();
-        }
         d->updateDelegate();
 
 #ifdef Q_OS_MAC