diff --git a/examples/storage/littlefs/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/storage/littlefs/CMakeLists.txt
index 5fc7bf39af..63aa76f77e 100644
--- a/examples/storage/littlefs/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/storage/littlefs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The following lines of boilerplate have to be in your project's
 # CMakeLists in this exact order for cmake to work correctly
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
 include($ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake)
 project(littlefs_example)
diff --git a/examples/storage/littlefs/main/idf_component.yml b/examples/storage/littlefs/main/idf_component.yml
index 95c7329ae1..68f4b1b88b 100644
--- a/examples/storage/littlefs/main/idf_component.yml
+++ b/examples/storage/littlefs/main/idf_component.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 ## IDF Component Manager Manifest File
 dependencies:
-  joltwallet/littlefs: "==1.5.5"
-  ## Required IDF version
-  idf:
-    version: ">=5.2.0"
+  joltwallet/littlefs: "~=1.13.0"
diff --git a/tools/requirements/requirements.core.txt b/tools/requirements/requirements.core.txt
index 7379dad191..a61e07816f 100644
--- a/tools/requirements/requirements.core.txt
+++ b/tools/requirements/requirements.core.txt
@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ windows-curses; sys_platform == 'win32'
 
 # gdb extensions dependencies
 freertos_gdb
+
+# littlefs-python has to be this specific version due to minimal Python version in IDF v5.0 and v5.1
+littlefs-python == 0.9.3; python_version < "3.8"