diff --git a/docs/deprecations.rst b/docs/deprecations.rst
index 75c0b73ebed..a42dc555fea 100644
--- a/docs/deprecations.rst
+++ b/docs/deprecations.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ ImageFile.raise_oserror
 error codes returned by a codec's ``decode()`` method, which ImageFile already does
 automatically.
 
+IptcImageFile helper functions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. deprecated:: 10.2.0
+
+The functions ``IptcImageFile.dump`` and ``IptcImageFile.i``, and the constant
+``IptcImageFile.PAD`` have been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow
+12.0.0 (2025-10-15). These are undocumented helper functions intended
+for internal use, so there is no replacement. They can each be replaced
+by a single line of code using builtin functions in Python.
+
 Removed features
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/10.2.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/10.2.0.rst
index 9883f10baf3..07061f1f10a 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/10.2.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/10.2.0.rst
@@ -20,10 +20,14 @@ ImageFile.raise_oserror
 error codes returned by a codec's ``decode()`` method, which ImageFile already does
 automatically.
 
-TODO
-^^^^
-
-TODO
+IptcImageFile helper functions
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The functions ``IptcImageFile.dump`` and ``IptcImageFile.i``, and the constant
+``IptcImageFile.PAD`` have been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow
+12.0.0 (2025-10-15). These are undocumented helper functions intended
+for internal use, so there is no replacement. They can each be replaced
+by a single line of code using builtin functions in Python.
 
 API Changes
 ===========