diff --git a/src/datasets/table.py b/src/datasets/table.py
index 376e1e960f5..b5e039faabf 100644
--- a/src/datasets/table.py
+++ b/src/datasets/table.py
@@ -2152,6 +2152,8 @@ def _visit(array, feature):
 
 def table_iter(pa_table: pa.Table, batch_size: int, drop_last_batch=False):
     """Iterate ober sub-tables of size `batch_size`.
+    
+    Requires pyarrow>=8.0.0
 
     Args:
         table (:obj:`pyarrow.Table`): PyArrow table to iterate over