diff --git a/requirements/minimal.txt b/requirements/minimal.txt
index ca5964ec9129..23d136ed0f42 100644
--- a/requirements/minimal.txt
+++ b/requirements/minimal.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-requests>=2.20.0,<2.26.0
+requests~=2.26
 pyee~=8.1
 pyxdg~=0.26
 mycroft-messagebus-client~=0.9.1,!=0.9.2,!=0.9.3
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index d8fca0e87633..1ee974a66c49 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-requests>=2.20.0,<2.26.0
+requests~=2.26
 PyAudio~=0.2.11
 pyee~=8.1
 SpeechRecognition~=3.8.1