diff --git a/doc/source/advanced.rst b/doc/source/advanced.rst
index b44d84433..3b6037c93 100644
--- a/doc/source/advanced.rst
+++ b/doc/source/advanced.rst
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ For example, you can instantiate and register a persistent actor as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-  counter = Counter.options(name="CounterActor", detached=True).remote()
+  counter = Counter.options(name="CounterActor").remote()
 
 The CounterActor will be kept alive even after the driver running above script
 exits. Therefore it is possible to run the following script in a different
@@ -259,20 +259,5 @@ driver:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-  counter = ray.util.get_actor("CounterActor")
+  counter = ray.get_actor("CounterActor")
   print(ray.get(counter.get_counter.remote()))
-
-Note that just creating a named actor is allowed, this actor will be cleaned
-up after driver exits:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-  Counter.options(name="CounterActor").remote()
-
-However, creating a detached actor without name is not allowed because there
-will be no way to retrieve the actor handle and the resource is leaked.
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-  # Can't do this!
-  Counter.options(detached=True).remote()