diff --git a/smm4h/requirements.txt b/smm4h/requirements.txt
index 45171f1..0a49de9 100644
--- a/smm4h/requirements.txt
+++ b/smm4h/requirements.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ijson==2.3
 imbalanced-learn==0.3.2
 imblearn==0.0
 ipykernel==4.8.0
-ipython==6.2.1
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.1.0
 jedi==0.11.1