diff --git a/collect_app/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/android/tasks/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.java b/collect_app/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/android/tasks/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.java
index ead7a8ad413..baa510403e5 100644
--- a/collect_app/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/android/tasks/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.java
+++ b/collect_app/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/android/tasks/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.java
@@ -105,16 +105,6 @@ public InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader(GoogleAccountsManager accountsManager) {
         driveHelper = accountsManager.getDriveHelper();
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Google sheets currently only allows a-zA-Z0-9 and dash
-     */
-    public static boolean isGoogleSheetsStringValid(String name) {
-        return Pattern
-                .compile("^[a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+$")
-                .matcher(name)
-                .matches();
-    }
-
     public static boolean isLocationValid(String answer) {
         return Pattern
                 .compile("^-?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\s-?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\s-?[0-9]+\\"
@@ -282,9 +272,6 @@ private boolean fillSheet(List<TreeElement> columnElements, String sheetTitle,
         if (!isNumberOfColumnsValid(columnTitles.size())) {
             return false;
         }
-        if (!areColumnTitlesValid(columnTitles)) {
-            return false;
-        }
         Multimap<String, String> answersToUpload = ArrayListMultimap.create();
         Multimap<String, String> mediaToUpload = ArrayListMultimap.create();
         Multimap<String, String> uploadedMedia = ArrayListMultimap.create();
@@ -528,18 +515,6 @@ private void insertRow(ValueRange row, String sheetName) throws IOException {
         }
     }
 
-    private boolean areColumnTitlesValid(List<String> columnNames) {
-        for (String columnName : columnNames) {
-            if (!isGoogleSheetsStringValid(columnName)) {
-                outcome.results.put(id,
-                        Collect.getInstance().getString(R.string.google_sheets_invalid_column_form,
-                                columnName));
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-        return true;
-    }
-
     private void setUpSpreadsheet(String urlString) throws IOException, BadUrlException {
         if (!hasWritePermissionToSheet || !urlString.equals(googleSheetsUrl)) {
             try {
diff --git a/collect_app/src/test/java/org/odk/collect/android/utilities/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploaderTest.java b/collect_app/src/test/java/org/odk/collect/android/utilities/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploaderTest.java
index 02458bfa24d..cb13ecc25c8 100644
--- a/collect_app/src/test/java/org/odk/collect/android/utilities/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploaderTest.java
+++ b/collect_app/src/test/java/org/odk/collect/android/utilities/InstanceGoogleSheetsUploaderTest.java
@@ -1,25 +1,12 @@
 package org.odk.collect.android.utilities;
 
-
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.odk.collect.android.tasks.InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader;
 
-
 public class InstanceGoogleSheetsUploaderTest {
-    @Test
-    public void googleSheetRegexTests() {
-        assertFalse(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("()("));
-        assertFalse(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("-@123"));
-        assertFalse(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid(";'[@%2789"));
-        assertFalse(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("&googlesheets"));
-        assertTrue(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("1234"));
-        assertTrue(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("googlesheet"));
-        assertTrue(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isGoogleSheetsStringValid("Google"));
-    }
-
     @Test
     public void gpsLocationRegexTests() {
         assertFalse(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isLocationValid("{}{"));
@@ -33,5 +20,4 @@ public void gpsLocationRegexTests() {
         assertTrue(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isLocationValid("-0.0 0.8 -9.7 9.9"));
         assertTrue(InstanceGoogleSheetsUploader.isLocationValid("8.0 0.8 8.7 8.9"));
     }
-
 }
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