diff --git a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/providers/Azure.tsx b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/providers/Azure.tsx
index fd86fec078..d9a167c95c 100644
--- a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/providers/Azure.tsx
+++ b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/providers/Azure.tsx
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ export const Azure = ({ apiConfiguration, setApiConfigurationField }: AzureProps
 			if (parsed) {
 				setApiConfigurationField("azureBaseUrl", parsed.baseUrl)
 				setApiConfigurationField("azureDeploymentName", parsed.deploymentName)
-				if (parsed.apiVersion) {
-					setApiConfigurationField("azureApiVersion", parsed.apiVersion)
-				}
 			} else {
 				setApiConfigurationField("azureBaseUrl", rawValue)
 			}
diff --git a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/__tests__/parseAzureUrl.spec.ts b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/__tests__/parseAzureUrl.spec.ts
index a347cefe0b..b90501eed1 100644
--- a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/__tests__/parseAzureUrl.spec.ts
+++ b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/__tests__/parseAzureUrl.spec.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 import { parseAzureUrl } from "../parseAzureUrl"
 
 describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
-	it("parses a full openai.azure.com URL with api-version", () => {
+	it("parses a full openai.azure.com URL (ignores api-version)", () => {
 		const result = parseAzureUrl(
 			"https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/gpt-4o/chat/completions?api-version=2024-10-21",
 		)
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "gpt-4o",
-			apiVersion: "2024-10-21",
 		})
 	})
 
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-deployment.cognitiveservices.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "gpt-5.2",
-			apiVersion: "2024-05-01-preview",
 		})
 	})
 
@@ -30,7 +28,6 @@ describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-resource.services.ai.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "my-model",
-			apiVersion: "2025-01-01",
 		})
 	})
 
@@ -57,7 +54,6 @@ describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "gpt-4.turbo.2024",
-			apiVersion: "2024-10-21",
 		})
 	})
 
@@ -68,7 +64,6 @@ describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "my-deploy",
-			apiVersion: "2024-10-21",
 		})
 	})
 
@@ -102,14 +97,13 @@ describe("parseAzureUrl", () => {
 		})
 	})
 
-	it("handles additional query parameters besides api-version", () => {
+	it("ignores query parameters including api-version", () => {
 		const result = parseAzureUrl(
 			"https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/gpt-4o/chat/completions?api-version=2024-10-21&extra=param",
 		)
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			baseUrl: "https://my-resource.openai.azure.com/openai",
 			deploymentName: "gpt-4o",
-			apiVersion: "2024-10-21",
 		})
 	})
 })
diff --git a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/parseAzureUrl.ts b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/parseAzureUrl.ts
index 427e9a09bd..79e3501260 100644
--- a/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/parseAzureUrl.ts
+++ b/webview-ui/src/components/settings/utils/parseAzureUrl.ts
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ export interface ParsedAzureUrl {
 	baseUrl: string
 	/** e.g. "gpt-5.2" */
 	deploymentName: string
-	/** e.g. "2024-05-01-preview" */
-	apiVersion?: string
 }
 
 /**
  * Parses a full Azure OpenAI URL into its components.
  * Returns null if the URL doesn't match the expected pattern.
  *
+ * Extracts the base URL and deployment name only — the api-version query
+ * parameter is intentionally ignored so the application default is used.
+ *
  * Supported URL formats:
  * - https://{resource}.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/{deployment}/chat/completions?api-version={ver}
  * - https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/openai/deployments/{deployment}/responses?api-version={ver}
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ export function parseAzureUrl(input: string): ParsedAzureUrl | null {
 
 	const baseUrl = `${url.origin}${match[1]}`
 	const deploymentName = decodeURIComponent(match[2])
-	const apiVersion = url.searchParams.get("api-version") ?? undefined
 
-	return { baseUrl, deploymentName, ...(apiVersion !== undefined && { apiVersion }) }
+	return { baseUrl, deploymentName }
 }