diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 4ff226cbe784..4680b7677e64 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ Other Changes
 
 * SOLR-17956: XLSXResponseWriter has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. (Jan Høydahl)
 
+* SOLR-17958: The Tika Language Identifier is deprecated. Use one of the other detectors instead. (Jan Høydahl)
+
 * SOLR-17952: Stream decorator test refactoring - use underscore rather than dot in aliases (Andy Webb)
 
 ==================  9.9.1 ==================
diff --git a/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor.java b/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor.java
index 97fb7917fd66..bde2f62437c6 100644
--- a/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor.java
+++ b/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor.java
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
  * href="https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/indexing-guide/language-detection.html#configuring-tika-language-detection">https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/indexing-guide/language-detection.html#configuring-tika-language-detection</a>
  *
  * @since 3.5
+ * @deprecated Since 9.10, use {@link OpenNLPLangDetectUpdateProcessor} instead.
  */
+@Deprecated(since = "9.10")
 public class TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor extends LanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor {
 
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
diff --git a/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory.java b/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory.java
index 66cb977ed50c..1728390c0658 100644
--- a/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory.java
+++ b/solr/modules/langid/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory.java
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@
  * href="https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/indexing-guide/language-detection.html#configuring-tika-language-detection">https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/indexing-guide/language-detection.html#configuring-tika-language-detection</a>
  *
  * @since 3.5
+ * @deprecated Since 9.10, use {@link OpenNLPLangDetectUpdateProcessorFactory} instead.
  */
+@Deprecated(since = "9.10")
 public class TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory extends UpdateRequestProcessorFactory
     implements SolrCoreAware, LangIdParams {
 
diff --git a/solr/modules/langid/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTest.java b/solr/modules/langid/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTest.java
index b110b397b05d..3c47c2a9de08 100644
--- a/solr/modules/langid/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTest.java
+++ b/solr/modules/langid/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/processor/TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTest.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.solr.common.params.ModifiableSolrParams;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
 public class TikaLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTest
     extends LanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactoryTestCase {
   @Override
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/indexing-guide/pages/language-detection.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/indexing-guide/pages/language-detection.adoc
index f4f5ab158f33..a2ab17638fa8 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/indexing-guide/pages/language-detection.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/indexing-guide/pages/language-detection.adoc
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ Here is an example of a minimal Tika `langid` configuration in `solrconfig.xml`:
 </processor>
 ----
 
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+This detector is deprecated and may be removed in a future version.
+====
+
 === Configuring LangDetect Language Detection
 
 Here is an example of a minimal LangDetect `langid` configuration in `solrconfig.xml`:
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-9.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-9.adoc
index a99ad2b4e4f8..d07e8d8081d2 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-9.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-9.adoc
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ Java has removed support for the Security Manager starting with Java 24; therefo
 
 The `XLSXResponseWriter` is now deprecated.
 
+The Tika Language Identifier is deprecated. Use one of the other detectors instead.
+
 The Extraction module can now extract documents using an external Tika Server.
 The local in-process Tika 1.x extractor backend is deprecated and will go away in 10.0.