diff --git a/man/sd_bus_message_dump.xml b/man/sd_bus_message_dump.xml
index db9e46d991..720b114273 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_message_dump.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_message_dump.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
     <para>Output for a signal message (with <constant>SD_BUS_MESSAGE_DUMP_WITH_HEADER</constant>):
     <programlisting>
-‣ Type=signal  Endian=l  Flags=1  Version=1  Priority=0 Cookie=22
+‣ Type=signal  Endian=l  Flags=1  Version=1  Cookie=22
   Path=/value/a  Interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties  Member=PropertiesChanged
   MESSAGE "sa{sv}as" {
           STRING "org.freedesktop.systemd.ValueTest";
diff --git a/src/busctl/busctl.c b/src/busctl/busctl.c
index 3c75be381f..3d03eb37a6 100644
--- a/src/busctl/busctl.c
+++ b/src/busctl/busctl.c
@@ -1200,7 +1200,6 @@ static int message_json(sd_bus_message *m, FILE *f) {
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR("endian", JSON_BUILD_STRING(e)),
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR("flags", JSON_BUILD_INTEGER(m->header->flags)),
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR("version", JSON_BUILD_INTEGER(m->header->version)),
-                                       JSON_BUILD_PAIR_CONDITION(m->priority != 0, "priority", JSON_BUILD_INTEGER(m->priority)),
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR("cookie", JSON_BUILD_INTEGER(BUS_MESSAGE_COOKIE(m))),
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR_CONDITION(m->reply_cookie != 0, "reply_cookie", JSON_BUILD_INTEGER(m->reply_cookie)),
                                        JSON_BUILD_PAIR_CONDITION(m->sender, "sender", JSON_BUILD_STRING(m->sender)),
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-dump.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-dump.c
index caab5e5ebe..94107c297f 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-dump.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-dump.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ _public_ int sd_bus_message_dump(sd_bus_message *m, FILE *f, uint64_t flags) {
 
         if (flags & SD_BUS_MESSAGE_DUMP_WITH_HEADER) {
                 fprintf(f,
-                        "%s%s%s Type=%s%s%s  Endian=%c  Flags=%u  Version=%u  Priority=%"PRIi64,
+                        "%s%s%s Type=%s%s%s  Endian=%c  Flags=%u  Version=%u",
                         m->header->type == SD_BUS_MESSAGE_METHOD_ERROR ? ansi_highlight_red() :
                         m->header->type == SD_BUS_MESSAGE_METHOD_RETURN ? ansi_highlight_green() :
                         m->header->type != SD_BUS_MESSAGE_SIGNAL ? ansi_highlight() : "",
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ _public_ int sd_bus_message_dump(sd_bus_message *m, FILE *f, uint64_t flags) {
 
                         m->header->endian,
                         m->header->flags,
-                        m->header->version,
-                        m->priority);
+                        m->header->version);
 
                 /* Display synthetic message serial number in a more readable
                  * format than (uint32_t) -1 */
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.c
index 62c34d9312..8c0234405a 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.c
@@ -5924,18 +5924,31 @@ int bus_message_remarshal(sd_bus *bus, sd_bus_message **m) {
 }
 
 _public_ int sd_bus_message_get_priority(sd_bus_message *m, int64_t *priority) {
+        static bool warned = false;
+
         assert_return(m, -EINVAL);
         assert_return(priority, -EINVAL);
 
-        *priority = m->priority;
+        if (!warned) {
+                log_debug("sd_bus_message_get_priority() is deprecated and always returns 0.");
+                warned = true;
+        }
+
+        *priority = 0;
         return 0;
 }
 
 _public_ int sd_bus_message_set_priority(sd_bus_message *m, int64_t priority) {
+        static bool warned = false;
+
         assert_return(m, -EINVAL);
         assert_return(!m->sealed, -EPERM);
 
-        m->priority = priority;
+        if (!warned) {
+                log_debug("sd_bus_message_set_priority() is deprecated and does nothing.");
+                warned = true;
+        }
+
         return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.h b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.h
index a88a531e15..5d869213ab 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.h
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-message.h
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ struct sd_bus_message {
         usec_t monotonic;
         usec_t realtime;
         uint64_t seqnum;
-        int64_t priority;
         uint64_t verify_destination_id;
 
         bool sealed:1;