diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8bf38b26..585863aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2563,7 +2563,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "indoc",
  "instability",
- "itertools 0.13.0",
  "palette",
  "pretty_assertions",
  "rand 0.9.0",
@@ -2582,7 +2581,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing 0.1.41",
  "tracing-appender",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "unicode-width",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/ratatui/Cargo.toml b/ratatui/Cargo.toml
index 5051ef10..01da8481 100644
--- a/ratatui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ratatui/Cargo.toml
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ unstable-backend-writer = [
 [dependencies]
 document-features = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 instability.workspace = true
-itertools.workspace = true
 palette = { version = "0.7.6", optional = true }
 ratatui-core = { workspace = true }
 ratatui-crossterm = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -112,8 +111,6 @@ ratatui-termwiz = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 ratatui-widgets = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 time = { version = "0.3.37", optional = true, features = ["local-offset"] }
-# See <https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/issues/1271> for information about why we pin unicode-width
-unicode-width.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies]
 ratatui-termion = { workspace = true, optional = true }