diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormula.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormula.scala
index a3ce4f3239b60..2eb37fd65d7fc 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormula.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormula.scala
@@ -387,6 +387,10 @@ class RFormulaModel private[feature](
     s"RFormulaModel: uid=$uid, resolvedFormula=$resolvedFormula"
   }
 
+  // For ml connect only
+  @Since("4.0.0")
+  private[ml] def resolvedFormulaString: String = resolvedFormula.toString
+
   private def transformLabel(dataset: Dataset[_]): DataFrame = {
     val labelName = resolvedFormula.label
     if (labelName.isEmpty || hasLabelCol(dataset.schema)) {
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py b/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
index 81f6c7ebcbdf0..cc8f19aaf82c2 100755
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
@@ -6841,7 +6841,7 @@ class RFormulaModel(JavaModel, _RFormulaParams, JavaMLReadable["RFormulaModel"],
     """
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
-        resolvedFormula = self._call_java("resolvedFormula")
+        resolvedFormula = self._call_java("resolvedFormulaString")
         return "RFormulaModel(%s) (uid=%s)" % (resolvedFormula, self.uid)
 
 
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/tests/test_feature.py b/python/pyspark/ml/tests/test_feature.py
index 12926e3e5bb46..cc47832950799 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/tests/test_feature.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/tests/test_feature.py
@@ -1312,8 +1312,7 @@ def test_rformula_string_indexer_order_type(self):
 
             model.write().overwrite().save(d)
             model2 = RFormulaModel.load(d)
-            # TODO: fix str(model)
-            # self.assertEqual(str(model), str(model2))
+            self.assertEqual(str(model), str(model2))
             self.assertEqual(model.getFormula(), model2.getFormula())
 
     def test_string_indexer_handle_invalid(self):
diff --git a/sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/ml/MLUtils.scala b/sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/ml/MLUtils.scala
index acf5abd938f74..6f59af46d0a7a 100644
--- a/sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/ml/MLUtils.scala
+++ b/sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/ml/MLUtils.scala
@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ private[ml] object MLUtils {
     (classOf[CountVectorizerModel], Set("vocabulary")),
     (classOf[OneHotEncoderModel], Set("categorySizes")),
     (classOf[StringIndexerModel], Set("labels", "labelsArray")),
+    (classOf[RFormulaModel], Set("resolvedFormulaString")),
     (classOf[IDFModel], Set("idf", "docFreq", "numDocs")))
 
   private def validate(obj: Any, method: String): Unit = {