diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/stable_diffusion_3/pipeline_stable_diffusion_3_img2img.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/stable_diffusion_3/pipeline_stable_diffusion_3_img2img.py
index e7b5ebc92a55..abac57d554a0 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/stable_diffusion_3/pipeline_stable_diffusion_3_img2img.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/stable_diffusion_3/pipeline_stable_diffusion_3_img2img.py
@@ -591,8 +591,6 @@ def prepare_latents(self, image, timestep, batch_size, num_images_per_prompt, dt
             )
 
         image = image.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        if image.shape[1] == self.vae.config.latent_channels:
-            init_latents = image
 
         batch_size = batch_size * num_images_per_prompt
         if image.shape[1] == self.vae.config.latent_channels: