diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index d95a6991..de457c2c 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Most of Solaar should work fine with any kernel more recent than 5.2,
 but newer kernels might be needed for some devices to be correctly recognized and handled.
 The `udev` package must be installed and its daemon running.
 
-Solaar requires Python 3.6+ and requires several packages to be installed.
+Solaar requires Python 3.7+ and requires several packages to be installed.
 If you are running the system version of Python you should have the
 `python3-pyudev`, `python3-psutil`, `python3-xlib`, `python3-evdev`,
 and `python3-yaml` or `python3-pyyaml` packages installed.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d451e91e..40aa6a8d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ For instructions on installing Solaar see https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/in
     # sudo apt install python-gi python3-gi \
     #        gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1
     # os_requires=['gi.repository.GObject (>= 2.0)', 'gi.repository.Gtk (>= 3.0)'],
-    python_requires='>=3.6',
+    python_requires='>=3.7',
     install_requires=[
         'evdev (>= 1.1.2)',
         'pyudev (>= 0.13)',