diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e1b018098..2119e0191 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         pyarrow_dependency,
         "db-dtypes>=0.3.0,<2.0.0dev",
     ],
-    "ipywidgets": ["ipywidgets==7.7.1"],
+    "ipywidgets": ["ipywidgets>=7.7.0,<8.0.1"],
     "geopandas": ["geopandas>=0.9.0, <1.0dev", "Shapely>=1.8.4, <2.0dev"],
     "ipython": ["ipython>=7.0.1,!=8.1.0"],
     "tqdm": ["tqdm >= 4.7.4, <5.0.0dev"],