diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 40ee86208..ce1675ef9 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents', module: 'httpclient'
     })
 
-    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.13.1'
+    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.16.0'
     implementation 'androidx.activity:activity-ktx:1.9.3'
     implementation 'com.github.nextcloud.android-common:ui:0.23.2'
     implementation 'com.github.nextcloud-deps:android-talk-webrtc:132.6834.0'
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index 543800c01..22b10f021 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
             <trusting group="androidx.camera"/>
             <trusting group="androidx.compose.runtime"/>
             <trusting group="androidx.constraintlayout"/>
+            <trusting group="androidx.core"/>
             <trusting group="androidx.databinding"/>
             <trusting group="androidx.datastore"/>
             <trusting group="androidx.exifinterface" name="exifinterface" version="1.4.0"/>
@@ -2079,6 +2080,11 @@
             <sha256 value="2a10979bbb3bcd7b25b7f664ab4e9b016fabf2174a26768b677e12e4bea4c7c4" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="androidx.core" name="core" version="1.16.0">
+         <artifact name="core-1.16.0.aar">
+            <sha256 value="6bf03d39dbe3744acce227d3b697374c3625aae1025fbec8ad9fd7bd58bce431" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="androidx.core" name="core" version="1.2.0">
          <artifact name="core-1.2.0.aar">
             <sha256 value="524b8b88ceb6a74a7e44e6b567a135660f211799904cb218bfee5be1166820b2" origin="Generated by Gradle" reason="Artifact is not signed"/>