diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7141614f0..0ea161a09 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ pyside = [
 pyside2 = [
     "PySide2!=5.15.0,>=5.12.3",
     "napari[pyside]<0.7.0",
+    "superqt<0.8.0",  # superqt 0.8+ uses type annotations which are not supported in pyside2, so we need to use older version
 ]
 pyside6 = [
     "PySide6",