diff --git a/eframe/Cargo.toml b/eframe/Cargo.toml
index 68a26967cbd..7da82f80f91 100644
--- a/eframe/Cargo.toml
+++ b/eframe/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ egui = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false, feature
   "bytemuck",
   "tracing",
 ] }
-tracing = "0.1"
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 
 #! ### Optional dependencies
 ## Enable this when generating docs.
diff --git a/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml b/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
index f48ea866740..ef3c04301f6 100644
--- a/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ egui = { version = "0.18.1", path = "../egui", default-features = false, feature
 ] }
 
 bytemuck = "1.7"
-tracing = "0.1"
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 type-map = "0.5.0"
 wgpu = "0.13"
 
diff --git a/egui-winit/Cargo.toml b/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
index 8ad99469234..e76a399e5ef 100644
--- a/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ egui = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false, feature
   "tracing",
 ] }
 instant = { version = "0.1", features = ["wasm-bindgen"] } # We use instant so we can (maybe) compile for web
-tracing = "0.1"
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 winit = "0.26.1"
 
 #! ### Optional dependencies
diff --git a/egui/Cargo.toml b/egui/Cargo.toml
index 36eb180895e..eea1e829252 100644
--- a/egui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,4 +68,4 @@ ron = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1", optional = true, features = ["derive", "rc"] }
 
 # egui doesn't log much, but when it does, it uses [`tracing`](https://docs.rs/tracing).
-tracing = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
+tracing = { version = "0.1", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
diff --git a/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml b/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
index 7253748b02a..28fbc7ac269 100644
--- a/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ syntax_highlighting = ["syntect"]
 egui = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false }
 egui_extras = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../egui_extras" }
 enum-map = { version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
-tracing = "0.1"
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 unicode_names2 = { version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
 
 #! ### Optional dependencies
diff --git a/egui_extras/Cargo.toml b/egui_extras/Cargo.toml
index ffd2207c0dc..1e4f32fe432 100644
--- a/egui_extras/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui_extras/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ usvg = { version = "0.23", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 
 # feature "tracing"
-tracing = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
+tracing = { version = "0.1", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
diff --git a/egui_glow/Cargo.toml b/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
index 8e6b5276750..5bf226a0cc2 100644
--- a/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ egui = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false, feature
 bytemuck = "1.7"
 glow = "0.11"
 memoffset = "0.6"
-tracing = "0.1"
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 
 #! ### Optional dependencies
 ## Enable this when generating docs.