diff --git a/app/lib/methods/helpers/image.ts b/app/lib/methods/helpers/image.ts
index 0f89ac3fe..0935f7615 100644
--- a/app/lib/methods/helpers/image.ts
+++ b/app/lib/methods/helpers/image.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Fast Image can't render a svg image from a uri yet, because of that we aren't test the svg within the RegEx
-export const regExpUrlImage = new RegExp(
+export const regExpImageType = new RegExp(
 	'.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp|avif|gif|tiff)' + // type of the URL
 		'(\\?[;&a-z\\d%_.~+=-]*)?',
 	'i' // query string
 );
-export const isImage = (url: string) => regExpUrlImage.test(url);
+export const isImage = (url: string) => regExpImageType.test(url);
diff --git a/app/lib/methods/helpers/url.ts b/app/lib/methods/helpers/url.ts
index 0370e33d3..efe675b7e 100644
--- a/app/lib/methods/helpers/url.ts
+++ b/app/lib/methods/helpers/url.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import fetch from './fetch';
-
 export const isValidURL = (url: string): boolean => {
 	const pattern = new RegExp(
 		'^(https?:\\/\\/)?' + // protocol
@@ -15,12 +13,3 @@ export const isValidURL = (url: string): boolean => {
 
 // Use checkUseSsl: false only if server url starts with http://
 export const isSsl = (url: string): boolean => !/http:\/\//.test(url);
-
-export const isValidURLRequest = async (url: string) => {
-	try {
-		const result = await fetch(url);
-		return result.status === 200;
-	} catch {
-		return false;
-	}
-};
diff --git a/app/views/ChangeAvatarView/AvatarUrl.tsx b/app/views/ChangeAvatarView/AvatarUrl.tsx
index aff2b3913..c709403fd 100644
--- a/app/views/ChangeAvatarView/AvatarUrl.tsx
+++ b/app/views/ChangeAvatarView/AvatarUrl.tsx
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import { yupResolver } from '@hookform/resolvers/yup';
 
 import I18n from '../../i18n';
 import { ControlledFormTextInput } from '../../containers/TextInput';
-import { regExpUrlImage } from '../../lib/methods/helpers';
+import { regExpImageType } from '../../lib/methods/helpers';
 
 const schema = yup.object().shape({
-	avatarUrl: yup.string().matches(regExpUrlImage).required()
+	avatarUrl: yup.string().url().matches(regExpImageType).required()
 });
 
 interface ISubmit {