diff --git a/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkReadConf.java b/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkReadConf.java
index 421e7a07a162..0e9c909e8d7f 100644
--- a/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkReadConf.java
+++ b/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkReadConf.java
@@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ public boolean caseSensitive() {
 
   public boolean localityEnabled() {
     boolean defaultValue = Util.mayHaveBlockLocations(table.io(), table.location());
-    return PropertyUtil.propertyAsBoolean(readOptions, SparkReadOptions.LOCALITY, defaultValue);
+    return confParser
+        .booleanConf()
+        .option(SparkReadOptions.LOCALITY)
+        .sessionConf(SparkSQLProperties.LOCALITY_ENABLED)
+        .defaultValue(defaultValue)
+        .parse();
   }
 
   public Long snapshotId() {
diff --git a/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkSQLProperties.java b/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkSQLProperties.java
index 095d408f17d1..29eb9f99d089 100644
--- a/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkSQLProperties.java
+++ b/spark/v3.4/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkSQLProperties.java
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ private SparkSQLProperties() {}
   // Controls whether vectorized reads are enabled
   public static final String VECTORIZATION_ENABLED = "spark.sql.iceberg.vectorization.enabled";
 
+  // Controls whether locality reads are enabled
+  public static final String LOCALITY_ENABLED = "spark.sql.iceberg.locality.enabled";
+
   // Controls whether reading/writing timestamps without timezones is allowed
   @Deprecated
   public static final String HANDLE_TIMESTAMP_WITHOUT_TIMEZONE =