diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java
index 54f978ec1597b..1afba8546777f 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ private void doPerformPhaseOnShard(int shardIndex, SearchShardIterator shardIt,
             public void innerOnResponse(Result result) {
                 try {
                     releasable.close();
-                    onShardResult(result, shardIt);
+                    onShardResult(result);
                 } catch (Exception exc) {
                     onShardFailure(shardIndex, shard, shardIt, exc);
                 }
@@ -551,9 +551,8 @@ void onShardFailure(final int shardIndex, SearchShardTarget shardTarget, Excepti
     /**
      * Executed once for every successful shard level request.
      * @param result the result returned form the shard
-     * @param shardIt the shard iterator
      */
-    protected void onShardResult(Result result, SearchShardIterator shardIt) {
+    protected void onShardResult(Result result) {
         assert result.getShardIndex() != -1 : "shard index is not set";
         assert result.getSearchShardTarget() != null : "search shard target must not be null";
         hasShardResponse.set(true);
@@ -757,7 +756,7 @@ void sendReleaseSearchContext(ShardSearchContextId contextId, Transport.Connecti
     /**
      * Executed once all shard results have been received and processed
      * @see #onShardFailure(int, SearchShardTarget, Exception)
-     * @see #onShardResult(SearchPhaseResult, SearchShardIterator)
+     * @see #onShardResult(SearchPhaseResult)
      */
     private void onPhaseDone() {  // as a tribute to @kimchy aka. finishHim()
         executeNextPhase(this, this::getNextPhase);
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
index f75b84abc2f0f..4517d46c2c614 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ protected void onShardGroupFailure(int shardIndex, SearchShardTarget shardTarget
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected void onShardResult(SearchPhaseResult result, SearchShardIterator shardIt) {
+    protected void onShardResult(SearchPhaseResult result) {
         QuerySearchResult queryResult = result.queryResult();
         if (queryResult.isNull() == false
             // disable sort optims for scroll requests because they keep track of the last bottom doc locally (per shard)
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ && getRequest().scroll() == null
             }
             bottomSortCollector.consumeTopDocs(topDocs, queryResult.sortValueFormats());
         }
-        super.onShardResult(result, shardIt);
+        super.onShardResult(result);
     }
 
     static SearchPhase nextPhase(
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MockSearchPhaseContext.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MockSearchPhaseContext.java
index cf65d756811ad..70a3326505995 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MockSearchPhaseContext.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MockSearchPhaseContext.java
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ protected void executePhaseOnShard(
         SearchActionListener<SearchPhaseResult> listener
     ) {
         onShardResult(new SearchPhaseResult() {
-        }, shardIt);
+        });
     }
 
     @Override