diff --git a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/AppearanceUserSettingsTab.tsx b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/AppearanceUserSettingsTab.tsx
index 9bed2fb039..3cb0028f45 100644
--- a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/AppearanceUserSettingsTab.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/AppearanceUserSettingsTab.tsx
@@ -402,6 +402,12 @@ export default class AppearanceUserSettingsTab extends React.Component<IProps, I
                     useCheckbox={true}
                     disabled={this.state.useIRCLayout}
                 />
+                <SettingsFlag
+                    name="useIRCLayout"
+                    level={SettingLevel.DEVICE}
+                    useCheckbox={true}
+                    onChange={(checked) => this.setState({useIRCLayout: checked})}
+                />
                 <SettingsFlag
                     name="useSystemFont"
                     level={SettingLevel.DEVICE}
@@ -440,7 +446,6 @@ export default class AppearanceUserSettingsTab extends React.Component<IProps, I
                 </div>
                 {this.renderThemeSection()}
                 {SettingsStore.isFeatureEnabled("feature_font_scaling") ? this.renderFontSection() : null}
-                {SettingsStore.isFeatureEnabled("feature_irc_ui") ? this.renderLayoutSection() : null}
                 {this.renderAdvancedSection()}
             </div>
         );
diff --git a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
index a38d87d08e..fb97bfa26c 100644
--- a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
+++ b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
@@ -489,7 +489,6 @@
     "Try out new ways to ignore people (experimental)": "Try out new ways to ignore people (experimental)",
     "Use the improved room list (will refresh to apply changes)": "Use the improved room list (will refresh to apply changes)",
     "Support adding custom themes": "Support adding custom themes",
-    "Enable IRC layout option in the appearance tab": "Enable IRC layout option in the appearance tab",
     "Show info about bridges in room settings": "Show info about bridges in room settings",
     "Font size": "Font size",
     "Use custom size": "Use custom size",
@@ -539,7 +538,7 @@
     "How fast should messages be downloaded.": "How fast should messages be downloaded.",
     "Manually verify all remote sessions": "Manually verify all remote sessions",
     "IRC display name width": "IRC display name width",
-    "Use IRC layout": "Use IRC layout",
+    "Enable experimental, compact IRC style layout": "Enable experimental, compact IRC style layout",
     "Collecting app version information": "Collecting app version information",
     "Collecting logs": "Collecting logs",
     "Uploading report": "Uploading report",
diff --git a/src/settings/Settings.js b/src/settings/Settings.js
index 0011ecfccd..5f84b11247 100644
--- a/src/settings/Settings.js
+++ b/src/settings/Settings.js
@@ -159,12 +159,6 @@ export const SETTINGS = {
         supportedLevels: LEVELS_FEATURE,
         default: false,
     },
-    "feature_irc_ui": {
-        supportedLevels: LEVELS_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS,
-        displayName: _td('Enable IRC layout option in the appearance tab'),
-        default: false,
-        isFeature: true,
-    },
     "mjolnirRooms": {
         supportedLevels: ['account'],
         default: [],
@@ -574,7 +568,7 @@ export const SETTINGS = {
     },
     "useIRCLayout": {
         supportedLevels: LEVELS_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS,
-        displayName: _td("Use IRC layout"),
+        displayName: _td("Enable experimental, compact IRC style layout"),
         default: false,
     },
 };