diff --git a/app/.npmrc b/app/.npmrc
index 1ebf59a9b2..0aef6a8e59 100644
--- a/app/.npmrc
+++ b/app/.npmrc
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 runtime = electron
 disturl = https://atom.io/download/electron
-target = 14.2.3
+target = 16.0.8
diff --git a/app/src/main-process/menu/build-spell-check-menu.ts b/app/src/main-process/menu/build-spell-check-menu.ts
index 2e39aa1df6..1a6d6f658c 100644
--- a/app/src/main-process/menu/build-spell-check-menu.ts
+++ b/app/src/main-process/menu/build-spell-check-menu.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function getSpellCheckMenuItems(
  * to english, it returns the item that can set it to their system language.
  */
 function getSpellCheckLanguageMenuItem(
-  session: Electron.session
+  session: Electron.Session
 ): MenuItem | null {
   const userLanguageCode = app.getLocale()
   const englishLanguageCode = 'en-US'
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f01dc2f51d..7acafb32a3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
     "@types/webpack-merge": "^4.1.3",
     "@types/winston": "^2.2.0",
     "@types/xml2js": "^0.4.0",
-    "electron": "=14.2.3",
+    "electron": "=16.0.8",
     "electron-builder": "^22.7.0",
     "electron-packager": "^15.1.0",
     "electron-winstaller": "^5.0.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 99da180838..29cf9bb2af 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
     ajv "^6.12.0"
     ajv-keywords "^3.4.1"
 
-"@electron/get@^1.0.1":
+"@electron/get@^1.13.0":
   version "1.13.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@electron/get/-/get-1.13.1.tgz#42a0aa62fd1189638bd966e23effaebb16108368"
   integrity sha512-U5vkXDZ9DwXtkPqlB45tfYnnYBN8PePp1z/XDCupnSpdrxT8/ThCv9WCwPLf9oqiSGZTkH6dx2jDUPuoXpjkcA==
@@ -3963,12 +3963,12 @@ electron-winstaller@*, electron-winstaller@^5.0.0:
     lodash.template "^4.2.2"
     temp "^0.9.0"
 
-electron@=14.2.3:
-  version "14.2.3"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron/-/electron-14.2.3.tgz#3facf572c57cefe8ce80154ad3e63f937784644b"
-  integrity sha512-7wBqvzUKhK1tw544w3+F8J7NajnqURGC4pH3VFTiBHU5ayiI/oaTTXJxyFLZ54zsR7xwon/3dYEVjIm2i68+Zg==
+electron@=16.0.8:
+  version "16.0.8"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron/-/electron-16.0.8.tgz#7ebd3e23c4883c239f53d8b7af1100f455ac8a02"
+  integrity sha512-znTVkl8LaGcPNdfc6SRr+6LYg2GtSCKXln/nW/PC+urBfAFnOYIuDock8QyGVFfzr5PuAa+g8YQQAboHV77D7g==
   dependencies:
-    "@electron/get" "^1.0.1"
+    "@electron/get" "^1.13.0"
     "@types/node" "^14.6.2"
     extract-zip "^1.0.3"