diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi.h b/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi.h
index 0fc67fcb4c..66780448e8 100644
--- a/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi.h
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi.h
@@ -1091,6 +1091,39 @@ esp_err_t esp_wifi_set_ant(const wifi_ant_config_t *config);
   */
 esp_err_t esp_wifi_get_ant(wifi_ant_config_t *config);
 
+/**
+  * @brief     Set the inactive time of the ESP32 STA or AP
+  *
+  * @attention 1. For Station, If the station does not receive a beacon frame from the connected SoftAP during the inactive time,
+  *               disconnect from SoftAP. Default 6s.
+  * @attention 2. For SoftAP, If the softAP doesn't receive any data from the connected STA during inactive time,
+  *               the softAP will force deauth the STA. Default is 300s.
+  * @attention 3. The inactive time configuration is not stored into flash
+  *
+  * @param     ifx  interface to be configured.
+  * @param     sec  Inactive time. Unit seconds.
+  *
+  * @return
+  *    - ESP_OK: succeed
+  *    - ESP_ERR_WIFI_NOT_INIT: WiFi is not initialized by esp_wifi_init
+  *    - ESP_ERR_WIFI_NOT_STARTED: WiFi is not started by esp_wifi_start
+  *    - ESP_ERR_WIFI_ARG: invalid argument, For Station, if sec is less than 3. For SoftAP, if sec is less than 10.
+  */
+esp_err_t esp_wifi_set_inactive_time(wifi_interface_t ifx, uint16_t sec);
+
+/**
+  * @brief     Get inactive time of specified interface
+  *
+  * @param     ifx  Interface to be configured.
+  * @param     sec  Inactive time. Unit seconds.
+  *
+  * @return
+  *    - ESP_OK: succeed
+  *    - ESP_ERR_WIFI_NOT_INIT: WiFi is not initialized by esp_wifi_init
+  *    - ESP_ERR_WIFI_ARG: invalid argument
+  */
+esp_err_t esp_wifi_get_inactive_time(wifi_interface_t ifx, uint16_t *sec);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/lib b/components/esp_wifi/lib
index 733ed45cb9..61676889c3 160000
--- a/components/esp_wifi/lib
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/lib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 733ed45cb9992fcfc5eb632ce21c00b53ad0627d
+Subproject commit 61676889c35ef7b0cecdd3c2dec1406f7a5faf32