diff --git a/pinecone/config/openapi.py b/pinecone/config/openapi.py
index b6b6f6e6..c8ba117a 100644
--- a/pinecone/config/openapi.py
+++ b/pinecone/config/openapi.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import certifi
 import socket
 import copy
-import warnings
 
 from urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
 
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ def copy(cls, openapi_config: OpenApiConfiguration, api_key: str, host: str) ->
         we don't modify those settings.
         '''
         copied = copy.deepcopy(openapi_config)
-        warnings.warn("Passing openapi_config is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please pass settings such as proxy_url, proxy_headers, ssl_ca_certs, and ssl_verify directly to the Pinecone constructor as keyword arguments. See the README at https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-python-client for examples.", DeprecationWarning)
 
         copied.api_key = {"ApiKeyAuth": api_key}
         copied.host = host
diff --git a/pinecone/control/pinecone.py b/pinecone/control/pinecone.py
index 272f3eee..3fed74a5 100644
--- a/pinecone/control/pinecone.py
+++ b/pinecone/control/pinecone.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import time
+import warnings
 from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, Union, List, cast, NamedTuple
 
 from .index_host_store import IndexHostStore
@@ -174,8 +175,6 @@ def __init__(
         pc.list_indexes()
 
         ```
-        
-
         """
         if config:
             if not isinstance(config, Config):
@@ -194,6 +193,9 @@ def __init__(
                 **kwargs
             )
 
+        if kwargs.get("openapi_config", None):
+            warnings.warn("Passing openapi_config is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please pass settings such as proxy_url, proxy_headers, ssl_ca_certs, and ssl_verify directly to the Pinecone constructor as keyword arguments. See the README at https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-python-client for examples.", DeprecationWarning)
+
         self.openapi_config = ConfigBuilder.build_openapi_config(self.config, **kwargs)
         self.pool_threads = pool_threads