diff --git a/src/core/project/qgsproject.cpp b/src/core/project/qgsproject.cpp
index f36c5465d4eb..11ad59fb906e 100644
--- a/src/core/project/qgsproject.cpp
+++ b/src/core/project/qgsproject.cpp
@@ -1509,7 +1509,8 @@ bool QgsProject::_getMapLayers( const QDomDocument &doc, QList<QDomNode> &broken
   QVector<QDomNode> parallelLoading;
   QMap<QString, QgsDataProvider *> loadedProviders;
 
-  if ( QgsSettingsRegistryCore::settingsLayerParallelLoading->value() )
+  if ( !( flags & Qgis::ProjectReadFlag::DontResolveLayers ) &&
+       QgsSettingsRegistryCore::settingsLayerParallelLoading->value() )
   {
     profile.switchTask( tr( "Load providers in parallel" ) );
     for ( const QDomNode &node : sortedLayerNodes )