diff --git a/container/container.go b/container/container.go
index 30317a54c8..a8f267fb59 100644
--- a/container/container.go
+++ b/container/container.go
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ func (container *Container) StopSignal() int {
 	}
 
 	if int(stopSignal) == 0 {
-		stopSignal, _ = signal.ParseSignal(signal.DefaultStopSignal)
+		stopSignal, _ = signal.ParseSignal(defaultStopSignal)
 	}
 	return int(stopSignal)
 }
diff --git a/container/container_unit_test.go b/container/container_unit_test.go
index 7c4476c44a..67b36d81b4 100644
--- a/container/container_unit_test.go
+++ b/container/container_unit_test.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ func TestContainerStopSignal(t *testing.T) {
 		Config: &container.Config{},
 	}
 
-	def, err := signal.ParseSignal(signal.DefaultStopSignal)
+	def, err := signal.ParseSignal(defaultStopSignal)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/container/container_unix.go b/container/container_unix.go
index 39ad978761..eef2ee8b3a 100644
--- a/container/container_unix.go
+++ b/container/container_unix.go
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
+	// defaultStopSignal is the default syscall signal used to stop a container.
+	defaultStopSignal = "SIGTERM"
+
 	// defaultStopTimeout sets the default time, in seconds, to wait
 	// for the graceful container stop before forcefully terminating it.
 	defaultStopTimeout = 10
diff --git a/container/container_windows.go b/container/container_windows.go
index d34edc44a9..8229480df7 100644
--- a/container/container_windows.go
+++ b/container/container_windows.go
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ const (
 	containerInternalSecretMountPath = `C:\ProgramData\Docker\internal\secrets`
 	containerInternalConfigsDirPath  = `C:\ProgramData\Docker\internal\configs`
 
+	// defaultStopSignal is the default syscall signal used to stop a container.
+	defaultStopSignal = "SIGTERM"
+
 	// defaultStopTimeout is the timeout (in seconds) for the shutdown call on a container
 	defaultStopTimeout = 30
 )
diff --git a/pkg/signal/signal_deprecated.go b/pkg/signal/signal_deprecated.go
index 51b9ad062c..9977cad94b 100644
--- a/pkg/signal/signal_deprecated.go
+++ b/pkg/signal/signal_deprecated.go
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ const (
 	// SIGPIPE is a signal sent to a process when a pipe is written to before the other end is open for reading
 	// Deprecated: use github.com/moby/sys/signal.SIGPIPE instead
 	SIGPIPE = msignal.SIGPIPE
-	// DefaultStopSignal is the syscall signal used to stop a container in unix systems.
-	// Deprecated: use github.com/moby/sys/signal.DefaultStopSignal instead
-	DefaultStopSignal = msignal.DefaultStopSignal
+
+	// DefaultStopSignal has been deprecated and removed. The default value is
+	// now defined in github.com/docker/docker/container. Clients should omit
+	// the container's stop-signal field if the default should be used.
 )