diff --git a/.circleci/ci-oldest-reqs.txt b/.circleci/ci-oldest-reqs.txt
index 3e79fb8eb..5a2caf640 100644
--- a/.circleci/ci-oldest-reqs.txt
+++ b/.circleci/ci-oldest-reqs.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 cloudpickle==1.1.1
 deprecation==2.0.0
 jinja2==2.10
-tqdm==4.48.1
+tqdm==4.60.0
 jsonschema==3.0.0
diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index bf93c0971..9627fbdb7 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ Changelog
 The **signac-flow** package follows `semantic versioning <https://semver.org/>`_.
 The numbers in brackets denote the related GitHub issue and/or pull request.
 
+Version 0.19
+============
+
+[0.19.0] -- 2022-xx-xx
+----------------------
+
+Changed
++++++++
+
+- Drop support for `tqdm <https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm>`__ versions older than `4.60.0` (#614).
+
+Fixed
++++++
+
+- Progress bars shown in notebooks fall back to text-based output if ipywidgets is not available (#602, #614).
+
 Version 0.18
 ============
 
diff --git a/flow/project.py b/flow/project.py
index 228fc6ce8..f84b330b9 100644
--- a/flow/project.py
+++ b/flow/project.py
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 import signac
 from jinja2 import TemplateNotFound as Jinja2TemplateNotFound
 from signac.contrib.filterparse import parse_filter_arg
-from tqdm.auto import tqdm
 
 from .aggregates import (
     _AggregatesCursor,
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@
     add_cwd_to_environment_pythonpath,
     roundrobin,
     switch_to_directory,
+    tqdm,
 )
 from .util.translate import abbreviate, shorten
 
diff --git a/flow/render_status.py b/flow/render_status.py
index 32324bd02..657808d0f 100644
--- a/flow/render_status.py
+++ b/flow/render_status.py
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 # All rights reserved.
 # This software is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
 """Status rendering logic."""
-from tqdm.auto import tqdm
-
 from .scheduling.base import JobStatus
 from .util import mistune
+from .util.misc import tqdm
 
 
 def _render_status(
diff --git a/flow/util/misc.py b/flow/util/misc.py
index 0190d4c83..12b295e7f 100644
--- a/flow/util/misc.py
+++ b/flow/util/misc.py
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@
 from tqdm.contrib import tmap
 from tqdm.contrib.concurrent import process_map, thread_map
 
+try:
+    # If ipywidgets is installed, use "auto" tqdm to improve notebook support.
+    # Otherwise, use only text-based progress bars. This workaround can be
+    # removed after https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/pull/1218.
+    import ipywidgets  # noqa: F401
+except ImportError:
+    from tqdm import tqdm
+else:
+    from tqdm.auto import tqdm
+
 
 def _positive_int(value):
     """Parse a command line argument as a positive integer.
@@ -348,7 +358,10 @@ def _get_parallel_executor(parallelization="none"):
 
     """
     if parallelization == "thread":
-        parallel_executor = thread_map
+
+        def parallel_executor(func, iterable, **kwargs):
+            return thread_map(func, iterable, tqdm_class=tqdm, **kwargs)
+
     elif parallelization == "process":
 
         def parallel_executor(func, iterable, **kwargs):
@@ -365,6 +378,7 @@ def parallel_executor(func, iterable, **kwargs):
                 # regardless of whether it is a local function.
                 partial(_run_cloudpickled_func, cloudpickle.dumps(func)),
                 map(cloudpickle.dumps, iterable),
+                tqdm_class=tqdm,
                 **kwargs,
             )
 
@@ -374,6 +388,6 @@ def parallel_executor(func, iterable, **kwargs):
             if "chunksize" in kwargs:
                 # Chunk size only applies to thread/process parallel executors
                 del kwargs["chunksize"]
-            return list(tmap(func, iterable, **kwargs))
+            return list(tmap(func, iterable, tqdm_class=tqdm, **kwargs))
 
     return parallel_executor
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c55e63b53..b0adb707d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ signac>=1.3.0
 jinja2>=2.10
 cloudpickle>=1.1.1
 deprecation>=2.0.0
-tqdm>=4.48.1
+tqdm>=4.60.0
 jsonschema>=3.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d3bbc41c6..bfb8543b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     # Deprecation management
     "deprecation>=2.0.0",
     # Progress bars
-    "tqdm>=4.48.1",
+    "tqdm>=4.60.0",
     # For schema validation
     "jsonschema>=3.0.0",
 ]