diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Net/WebUtility.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Net/WebUtility.cs
index 398873d249a506..257b0e1e633cec 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Net/WebUtility.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Net/WebUtility.cs
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ private static void HtmlEncode(ReadOnlySpan<char> input, ref ValueStringBuilder
 
             ReadOnlySpan<char> valueSpan = value.AsSpan();
 
-            int index = IndexOfHtmlDecodingChars(valueSpan);
+            int index = valueSpan.IndexOf('&');
             if (index < 0)
             {
                 return value;
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ public static void HtmlDecode(string? value, TextWriter output)
 
             ReadOnlySpan<char> valueSpan = value.AsSpan();
 
-            int index = IndexOfHtmlDecodingChars(valueSpan);
+            int index = valueSpan.IndexOf('&');
             if (index == -1)
             {
                 output.Write(value);
@@ -701,21 +701,6 @@ private static bool ValidateUrlEncodingParameters(byte[]? bytes, int offset, int
             return true;
         }
 
-        private static int IndexOfHtmlDecodingChars(ReadOnlySpan<char> input)
-        {
-            // this string requires html decoding if it contains '&' or a surrogate character
-            for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
-            {
-                char c = input[i];
-                if (c == '&' || char.IsSurrogate(c))
-                {
-                    return i;
-                }
-            }
-
-            return -1;
-        }
-
         #endregion
 
         // Internal struct to facilitate URL decoding -- keeps char buffer and byte buffer, allows appending of either chars or bytes