diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index de75a397c67..70c9f1eb78e 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ Optimizations
 
 * SOLR-9374: Speed up Jmx MBean retrieval for FieldCache. (Tim Owen via shalin)
 
+* SOLR-9449: Example schemas do not index _version_ field anymore because the field
+  has DocValues enabled already. (shalin)
+
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/managed-schema b/solr/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/managed-schema
index 95a90278561..60a0e989311 100644
--- a/solr/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/managed-schema
+++ b/solr/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/managed-schema
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@
          If you don't need it, consider removing it and the corresponding copyField directive.
     -->
     <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false" />
-    <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
+    <!-- doc values are enabled by default for primitive types such as long so we don't index the version field  -->
+    <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
     <field name="_root_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false" docValues="false" />
     <field name="_text_" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
 
diff --git a/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema b/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
index 5b969dd704a..b1373d84019 100644
--- a/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
+++ b/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@
          If you don't need it, consider removing it and the corresponding copyField directive.
     -->
     <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false" />
-    <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
+    <!-- doc values are enabled by default for primitive types such as long so we don't index the version field  -->
+    <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
     <field name="_root_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false" docValues="false" />
     <field name="_text_" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
 
diff --git a/solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/managed-schema b/solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/managed-schema
index 87b84df4982..4980540a926 100644
--- a/solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/managed-schema
+++ b/solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/managed-schema
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
    <!-- If you remove this field, you must _also_ disable the update log in solrconfig.xml
       or Solr won't start. _version_ and update log are required for SolrCloud
    --> 
-   <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="false" />
+   <!-- doc values are enabled by default for primitive types such as long so we don't index the version field  -->
+   <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
    
    <!-- points to the root document of a block of nested documents. Required for nested
       document support, may be removed otherwise