diff --git a/cirq-core/requirements.txt b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
index 762a87d9d28..14ed4dff56a 100644
--- a/cirq-core/requirements.txt
+++ b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ numpy~=1.16
 pandas
 sortedcontainers~=2.0
 scipy
-# TODO: unpin once #5058 is resolved
-sympy<1.10
+sympy
 typing_extensions
 tqdm
diff --git a/dev_tools/conf/mypy.ini b/dev_tools/conf/mypy.ini
index 8423be95dc2..56a8f13ffe4 100644
--- a/dev_tools/conf/mypy.ini
+++ b/dev_tools/conf/mypy.ini
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ follow_imports_for_stubs = true
 
 #Adding "sympy.* or mypy-sympy to the above list (3rd-party libs for which we don't have stubs) doesn't ignore "cannot find module 'sympy' error
 [mypy-sympy.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
+follow_imports = skip
+ignore_missing_imports = true
 
 # Treat symbols imported from Google's protobuf library as type Any.
 # This supresses errors due to attributes not known to typeshed,