diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d1c67148..08ea0d0c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ SQLAlchemy
 alembic
 Markdown
 future-fstrings
-telethon-aio
+telethon-aio>=1.0rc1
 telethon-session-sqlalchemy
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 07a2ed19..e9c01982 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
         "ruamel.yaml>=0.15.35,<0.16",
         "future-fstrings>=0.4.2",
         "python-magic>=0.4.15,<0.5",
-        "telethon-aio>=0.19.0,<0.19.1",
+        "telethon-aio>=1.0rc1,<2.0",
         "telethon-session-sqlalchemy>=0.2.3,<0.3",
     ],
     extras_require=extras,