diff --git a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringiterator.cpp b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringiterator.cpp
index 22c30edc2c4..4250b079322 100644
--- a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringiterator.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringiterator.cpp
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ QStringIterator i(string); // implicitly converted to QStringView
 
 //! [1]
 while (i.hasNext())
-    uint c = i.next();
+    char32_t c = i.next();
 //! [1]
 }