diff --git a/samples/snippets/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
index f67eb3587..ea84f6bac 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 google-cloud-bigquery[pandas,bqstorage,pyarrow]==1.26.1
 google-auth-oauthlib==0.4.1
-ipython==7.16.1
+ipython==7.16.1; python_version < '3.7'
+ipython==7.17.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 matplotlib==3.3.0
 pytz==2020.1