diff --git a/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu-item.ts b/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu-item.ts
index 2d6a66587..922332a07 100644
--- a/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu-item.ts
+++ b/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu-item.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 
 import { Component, Input, Output, OnInit, OnDestroy, EventEmitter, OnChanges, SimpleChange } from '@angular/core';
+import { CoreLogger } from '@singletons/logger';
 import { CoreContextMenuComponent } from '../context-menu/context-menu';
 
 /**
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@ import { CoreContextMenuComponent } from '../context-menu/context-menu';
 export class CoreContextMenuItemComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy, OnChanges {
 
     @Input() content?: string; // Content of the item.
-    @Input() iconDescription?: string; // Name of the icon to be shown on the left side of the item.
     @Input() iconAction?: string; // Name of the icon to show on the right side of the item. Represents the action to do on click.
     // If is "spinner" an spinner will be shown.
     // If is "toggle" a toggle switch will be shown.
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ export class CoreContextMenuItemComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy, OnChange
     @Output() onClosed?: EventEmitter<() => void>; // Will emit an event when the popover is closed because the item was clicked.
     @Output() toggleChange = new EventEmitter<boolean>();// Will emit an event when toggle changes to enable 2-way data binding.
 
+    /**
+     * @deprecated since 4.0.
+     */
+    @Input() iconDescription?: string; // Name of the icon to be shown on the left side of the item. Not used anymore.
+
     protected hasAction = false;
     protected destroyed = false;
 
@@ -88,6 +93,11 @@ export class CoreContextMenuItemComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy, OnChange
         if (!this.destroyed) {
             this.ctxtMenu.addItem(this);
         }
+
+        if (this.iconDescription !== undefined) {
+            CoreLogger.getInstance('CoreContextMenuItemComponent')
+                .warn('iconDescription Input is deprecated and should not be used');
+        }
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu.ts b/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu.ts
index c2108a54a..e981e7500 100644
--- a/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu.ts
+++ b/src/core/components/context-menu/context-menu.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 
 import { Component, Input, OnInit, OnDestroy, ElementRef, ChangeDetectorRef } from '@angular/core';
-import { Subject } from 'rxjs';
+import { Subject, Subscription } from 'rxjs';
 import { auditTime } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { CoreDomUtils } from '@services/utils/dom';
 import { CoreUtils } from '@services/utils/utils';
@@ -42,11 +42,12 @@ export class CoreContextMenuComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
     protected itemsChangedStream: Subject<void>; // Stream to update the hideMenu boolean when items change.
     protected parentContextMenu?: CoreContextMenuComponent;
     protected expanded = false;
+    protected itemsSubscription: Subscription;
 
     constructor(elementRef: ElementRef, changeDetector: ChangeDetectorRef) {
         // Create the stream and subscribe to it. We ignore successive changes during 250ms.
         this.itemsChangedStream = new Subject<void>();
-        this.itemsChangedStream.pipe(auditTime(250)).subscribe(() => {
+        this.itemsSubscription = this.itemsChangedStream.pipe(auditTime(250)).subscribe(() => {
             // Hide the menu if all items are hidden.
             this.hideMenu = !this.items.some((item) => !item.hidden);
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ export class CoreContextMenuComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Component being initialized.
+     * @inheritdoc
      */
     ngOnInit(): void {
         this.icon = this.icon || 'ellipsis-vertical';
@@ -197,10 +198,11 @@ export class CoreContextMenuComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Component destroyed.
+     * @inheritdoc
      */
     ngOnDestroy(): void {
         this.removeMergedItems();
+        this.itemsSubscription.unsubscribe();
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/core/components/context-menu/core-context-menu-popover.html b/src/core/components/context-menu/core-context-menu-popover.html
index 7e73792da..c6cb35d5d 100644
--- a/src/core/components/context-menu/core-context-menu-popover.html
+++ b/src/core/components/context-menu/core-context-menu-popover.html
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
         [href]="item.href" (click)="itemClicked($event, item)" [attr.aria-label]="item.ariaAction" [hidden]="item.hidden"
         [detail]="(item.href && !item.iconAction) || null" role="menuitem" [button]="(item.href && !item.iconAction)"
         [showBrowserWarning]="item.showBrowserWarning">
-        <ion-icon *ngIf="item.iconDescription" [name]="item.iconDescription" aria-hidden="true" slot="start">
-        </ion-icon>
         <ion-label>
             <p class="item-heading">
                 <core-format-text [clean]="true" [text]="item.content" [filter]="false"></core-format-text>