diff --git a/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml b/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
index 23bdc721..1b38c444 100644
--- a/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ criterion = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 [features]
 default = []
 http = ["image", "epi/http"]
-persistence = ["epi/persistence", "serde"]
+persistence = ["egui/persistence", "epi/persistence", "serde"]
 syntax_highlighting = ["syntect"]
 
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