diff --git a/src/views/app.html b/src/views/app.html
index 6f4001682..d26d1770f 100644
--- a/src/views/app.html
+++ b/src/views/app.html
@@ -960,9 +960,6 @@
             <p>If a configuration, update, restore or backup action resulted in an error, you can retry the task.</p>
             <p ng-show="app.error">An error occurred during the <b>{{ app.error.installationState | taskName }}</b> operation: <span class="text-danger"><b>{{ app.error.reason + ': ' + app.error.message }}</b></span></p>
             <button class="btn btn-primary pull-right" ng-click="repair.confirm()" ng-disabled="app.taskId || !app.error" tooltip-enable="app.taskId" uib-tooltip="App is busy">Retry {{ app.error.installationState | taskName }}</button>
-
-            <!-- this is hidden for now, use the CLI instead -->
-            <button class="btn btn-danger pull-right" ng-click="repair.stopAppTask(app.taskId)" ng-show="false && app.taskId">Cancel Current Task</button>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>
diff --git a/src/views/app.js b/src/views/app.js
index 9ae555112..faffc6507 100644
--- a/src/views/app.js
+++ b/src/views/app.js
@@ -1209,13 +1209,6 @@ angular.module('Application').controller('AppController', ['$scope', '$location'
             });
         },
 
-        stopAppTask: function (taskId) {
-            Client.stopTask(taskId, function (error) {
-                // we can ignore a call trying to cancel an already done task
-                if (error && error.statusCode !== 409) Client.error(error);
-            });
-        },
-
         restartBusy: false,
         restartApp: function () {
             $scope.repair.restartBusy = true;