diff --git a/ext/MLDataDevicesMLUtilsExt.jl b/ext/MLDataDevicesMLUtilsExt.jl
index a3c083e..693e661 100644
--- a/ext/MLDataDevicesMLUtilsExt.jl
+++ b/ext/MLDataDevicesMLUtilsExt.jl
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 module MLDataDevicesMLUtilsExt
 
-using MLDataDevices: MLDataDevices, AbstractDevice, AbstractDeviceIterator, CPUDevice,
-                     CUDADevice, AMDGPUDevice, MetalDevice, oneAPIDevice, DeviceIterator,
-                     Internal
+using MLDataDevices: MLDataDevices, AbstractDevice, CPUDevice, CUDADevice, AMDGPUDevice,
+                     MetalDevice, oneAPIDevice, DeviceIterator
 using MLUtils: MLUtils, DataLoader
 
 for dev in (CPUDevice, CUDADevice, AMDGPUDevice, MetalDevice, oneAPIDevice)
@@ -12,44 +11,21 @@ for dev in (CPUDevice, CUDADevice, AMDGPUDevice, MetalDevice, oneAPIDevice)
                 @warn "Using `buffer=true` for parallel DataLoader with automatic device \
                        transfer is currently not implemented. Ignoring `buffer=true`."
             end
-            return ParallelDeviceDataLoader(D, dataloader)
-        end
-        return DeviceIterator(D, dataloader)
-    end
-end
-
-# Parallel DataLoader that does the device transfer in the same task
-struct ParallelDeviceDataLoader{D <: AbstractDevice, DL <: DataLoader} <:
-       AbstractDeviceIterator{D, DL}
-    dev::D
-    iterator::DL
-end
 
-# Mostly from https://github.com/JuliaML/MLUtils.jl/blob/main/src/eachobs.jl
-function Base.iterate(c::ParallelDeviceDataLoader)
-    data = MLUtils.ObsView(c.iterator.data)
+            # Mostly from https://github.com/JuliaML/MLUtils.jl/blob/main/src/eachobs.jl
+            data = MLUtils.ObsView(dataloader.data)
+            data = dataloader.shuffle ? MLUtils.shuffleobs(data) : data
+            data = if dataloader.batchsize > 0
+                MLUtils.BatchView(
+                    data; dataloader.batchsize, dataloader.partial, dataloader.collate)
+            else
+                data
+            end
 
-    data = c.iterator.shuffle ? MLUtils.shuffleobs(c.iterator.rng, data) : data
-    data = if c.iterator.batchsize > 0
-        MLUtils.BatchView(
-            data; c.iterator.batchsize, c.iterator.partial, c.iterator.collate)
-    else
-        data
+            return DeviceIterator(D, eachobsparallel(D, data))
+        end
+        return DeviceIterator(D, dataloader)
     end
-
-    iter = eachobsparallel(c.dev, data)
-    item = iterate(iter)
-    item === nothing && return nothing
-    dev_batch, next_state = item
-    return dev_batch, ((iter, next_state), dev_batch)
-end
-
-function Base.iterate(::ParallelDeviceDataLoader, ((iter, state), prev_batch))
-    item = iterate(iter, state)
-    item === nothing && return nothing
-    dev_batch, next_state = item
-    Internal.unsafe_free!(prev_batch)  # free the previous batch
-    return dev_batch, ((iter, next_state), dev_batch)
 end
 
 function eachobsparallel(dev::AbstractDevice, data)
diff --git a/src/iterator.jl b/src/iterator.jl
index 47969be..3b4345e 100644
--- a/src/iterator.jl
+++ b/src/iterator.jl
@@ -1,18 +1,5 @@
-abstract type AbstractDeviceIterator{D <: AbstractDevice, I} end
-
-function Base.IteratorSize(::Type{AbstractDeviceIterator{D, I}}) where {D, I}
-    return Base.IteratorSize(I)
-end
-Base.length(c::AbstractDeviceIterator) = length(c.iterator)
-Base.axes(c::AbstractDeviceIterator) = axes(c.iterator)
-
-function Base.IteratorEltype(::Type{AbstractDeviceIterator{D, I}}) where {D, I}
-    return Base.IteratorEltype(I)
-end
-Base.eltype(c::AbstractDeviceIterator) = eltype(c.iterator)
-
 # This is based on CuIterator but generalized to work with any device
-struct DeviceIterator{D, I} <: AbstractDeviceIterator{D, I}
+struct DeviceIterator{D <: AbstractDevice, I}
     dev::D
     iterator::I
 end
@@ -33,3 +20,9 @@ function Base.iterate(c::DeviceIterator, (state, prev_batch))
     dev_batch = c.dev(batch)
     return dev_batch, (next_state, dev_batch)
 end
+
+Base.IteratorSize(::Type{DeviceIterator{D, I}}) where {D, I} = Base.IteratorSize(I)
+Base.length(c::DeviceIterator) = length(c.iterator)
+Base.axes(c::DeviceIterator) = axes(c.iterator)
+
+Base.IteratorEltype(::Type{DeviceIterator{D, I}}) where {D, I} = Base.EltypeUnknown()
diff --git a/test/qa_tests.jl b/test/qa_tests.jl
index 938908a..b5e4cb6 100644
--- a/test/qa_tests.jl
+++ b/test/qa_tests.jl
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import FillArrays, RecursiveArrayTools, SparseArrays, Zygote
     @test check_no_stale_explicit_imports(MLDataDevices) === nothing
     @test check_no_self_qualified_accesses(MLDataDevices) === nothing
     @test check_all_explicit_imports_via_owners(MLDataDevices) === nothing
-    @test check_all_qualified_accesses_via_owners(MLDataDevices) === nothing
+    @test check_all_qualified_accesses_via_owners(
+        MLDataDevices; ignore=(:SparseArrays,)) === nothing
     # mostly upstream problems
     @test_broken check_all_explicit_imports_are_public(MLDataDevices) === nothing
     @test_broken check_all_qualified_accesses_are_public(MLDataDevices) === nothing