diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aacfbf781d2ea..287450f5571a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -583,6 +583,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Removed `_aggregate_metrics`, `_reduce_agg_metrics`, and `_finalize_agg_metrics` from `LightningLoggerBase` ([#12053](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/12053))
 
 
+- Removed the `AcceleratorConnector.device_type` property ([#12081](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/12081))
+
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed an issue where `HorovodStrategy.teardown()` did not complete gracefully if an exception was thrown during callback setup [#11752](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11752)
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/accelerator_connector.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/accelerator_connector.py
index f2d27a249f6f2..6a52f1eda2fa6 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/accelerator_connector.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/accelerator_connector.py
@@ -763,17 +763,6 @@ def _lazy_init_strategy(self) -> None:
     def parallel_devices(self) -> List[Union[torch.device, int]]:
         return self._parallel_devices
 
-    @property
-    def device_type(self) -> str:
-        if isinstance(self.accelerator, CPUAccelerator):
-            return "cpu"
-        if isinstance(self.accelerator, GPUAccelerator):
-            return "gpu"
-        if isinstance(self.accelerator, TPUAccelerator):
-            return "tpu"
-        if isinstance(self.accelerator, IPUAccelerator):
-            return "ipu"
-
     @property
     def num_nodes(self) -> int:
         return self._num_nodes_flag