diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/SmokeTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/SmokeTest.kt
index b056de1bb8..a97a7d4c46 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/SmokeTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/SmokeTest.kt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import androidx.test.uiautomator.UiDevice
 import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockWebServer
 import org.junit.After
 import org.junit.Before
-import org.junit.Ignore
 import org.junit.Rule
 import org.junit.Test
 import org.mozilla.fenix.R
@@ -50,10 +49,6 @@ class SmokeTest {
     private var recentlyClosedTabsListIdlingResource: RecyclerViewIdlingResource? = null
     private var readerViewNotification: ViewVisibilityIdlingResource? = null
     private val downloadFileName = "Globe.svg"
-    private val searchEngine = object {
-        var title = "Ecosia"
-        var url = "https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s"
-    }
     val collectionName = "First Collection"
     private var bookmarksListIdlingResource: RecyclerViewIdlingResource? = null
 
@@ -522,32 +517,6 @@ class SmokeTest {
         }
     }
 
-    @Ignore("Failing, see: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/17847")
-    @Test
-    // Verifies setting as default a customized search engine name and URL
-    fun editCustomSearchEngineTest() {
-        homeScreen {
-        }.openThreeDotMenu {
-        }.openSettings {
-        }.openSearchSubMenu {
-            openAddSearchEngineMenu()
-            selectAddCustomSearchEngine()
-            typeCustomEngineDetails(searchEngine.title, searchEngine.url)
-            saveNewSearchEngine()
-            openEngineOverflowMenu("Ecosia")
-            clickEdit()
-            typeCustomEngineDetails("Test", searchEngine.url)
-            saveEditSearchEngine()
-            changeDefaultSearchEngine("Test")
-        }.goBack {
-        }.goBack {
-        }.openSearch {
-            verifyDefaultSearchEngine("Test")
-            clickSearchEngineShortcutButton()
-            verifyEnginesListShortcutContains("Test")
-        }
-    }
-
     @Test
     // Swipes the nav bar left/right to switch between tabs
     fun swipeToSwitchTabTest() {
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/robots/SettingsSubMenuSearchRobot.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/robots/SettingsSubMenuSearchRobot.kt
index da518f563f..92c29ce008 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/robots/SettingsSubMenuSearchRobot.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/ui/robots/SettingsSubMenuSearchRobot.kt
@@ -8,25 +8,20 @@ package org.mozilla.fenix.ui.robots
 
 import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
 import androidx.test.espresso.Espresso.onView
-import androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.clearText
 import androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.click
-import androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.typeText
 import androidx.test.espresso.assertion.ViewAssertions.matches
 import androidx.test.espresso.contrib.RecyclerViewActions
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.Visibility
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.hasDescendant
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isDisplayed
-import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withChild
+import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withContentDescription
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withEffectiveVisibility
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withText
-import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withContentDescription
-import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withParent
 import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry
 import androidx.test.uiautomator.UiDevice
 import androidx.test.uiautomator.UiSelector
 import org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers
-import org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.allOf
 import org.mozilla.fenix.R
 import org.mozilla.fenix.helpers.TestAssetHelper.waitingTime
 import org.mozilla.fenix.helpers.click
@@ -67,33 +62,6 @@ class SettingsSubMenuSearchRobot {
         saveNewSearchEngine()
     }
 
-    fun selectAddCustomSearchEngine() = onView(withText("Other")).click()
-
-    fun typeCustomEngineDetails(engineName: String, engineURL: String) {
-        onView(withId(R.id.edit_engine_name))
-            .perform(clearText())
-            .perform(typeText(engineName))
-        onView(withId(R.id.edit_search_string))
-            .perform(clearText())
-            .perform(typeText(engineURL))
-    }
-
-    fun openEngineOverflowMenu(searchEngineName: String) {
-        mDevice.findObject(
-            UiSelector().resourceId("org.mozilla.fenix.debug:id/overflow_menu")
-        ).waitForExists(waitingTime)
-        threeDotMenu(searchEngineName).click()
-    }
-
-    fun clickEdit() = onView(withText("Edit")).click()
-
-    fun saveEditSearchEngine() {
-        onView(withId(R.id.save_button)).click()
-        mDevice.findObject(
-            UiSelector().resourceId("org.mozilla.fenix.debug:id/recycler_view")
-        ).waitForExists(waitingTime)
-    }
-
     class Transition {
         val mDevice = UiDevice.getInstance(InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation())
 
@@ -220,11 +188,3 @@ private fun addSearchEngineSaveButton() = onView(withId(R.id.add_search_engine))
 private fun assertEngineListContains(searchEngineName: String) {
     onView(withId(R.id.search_engine_group)).check(matches(hasDescendant(withText(searchEngineName))))
 }
-
-private fun threeDotMenu(searchEngineName: String) =
-    onView(
-        allOf(
-            withId(R.id.overflow_menu),
-            withParent(withChild(withText(searchEngineName)))
-        )
-    )