diff --git a/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries-mac.txt b/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries-mac.txt
index b965f07ad..876a9da6d 100644
--- a/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries-mac.txt
+++ b/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries-mac.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-PyQt5<5.13.2
-cryptography>=2.1
+PyQt5>=5.15.2
+cryptography>=2.6
diff --git a/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt b/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt
index bce25465a..b00dd7c76 100644
--- a/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt
+++ b/contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PyQt5<5.15
+PyQt5
 
 # we need at least cryptography>=2.1 for electrum.crypto,
 # and at least cryptography>=2.6 for dnspython[DNSSEC]