diff --git a/docs/examples.rst b/docs/examples.rst
index 03d7e38d3..075f4e0c6 100644
--- a/docs/examples.rst
+++ b/docs/examples.rst
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ For that, `attr.asdict` offers a callback that decides whether an attribute shou
 
 .. doctest::
 
-   >>> from typing import List
    >>> from attr import asdict
 
    >>> @define
@@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ For that, `attr.asdict` offers a callback that decides whether an attribute shou
 
    >>> @define
    ... class UserList:
-   ...     users: List[User]
+   ...     users: list[User]
 
    >>> asdict(UserList([User("jane@doe.invalid", "s33kred"),
    ...                  User("joe@doe.invalid", "p4ssw0rd")]),
@@ -503,12 +502,12 @@ If you don't mind annotating *all* attributes, you can even drop the `field` and
    >>> @define
    ... class AutoC:
    ...     cls_var: typing.ClassVar[int] = 5  # this one is ignored
-   ...     l: typing.List[int] = Factory(list)
+   ...     l: list[int] = Factory(list)
    ...     x: int = 1
    ...     foo: str = "every attrib needs a type if auto_attribs=True"
    ...     bar: typing.Any = None
    >>> fields(AutoC).l.type
-   typing.List[int]
+   list[int]
    >>> fields(AutoC).x.type
    <class 'int'>
    >>> fields(AutoC).foo.type
@@ -522,18 +521,17 @@ If you don't mind annotating *all* attributes, you can even drop the `field` and
 
 The generated ``__init__`` method will have an attribute called ``__annotations__`` that contains this type information.
 
-If your annotations contain strings (e.g. forward references),
+If your annotations contain forward references,
 you can resolve these after all references have been defined by using :func:`attr.resolve_types`.
 This will replace the *type* attribute in the respective fields.
 
 .. doctest::
 
-    >>> import typing
     >>> from attr import fields, resolve_types
 
     >>> @define
     ... class A:
-    ...     a: typing.List['A']
+    ...     a: 'list[A]'
     ...     b: 'B'
     ...
     >>> @define
@@ -541,16 +539,21 @@ This will replace the *type* attribute in the respective fields.
     ...     a: A
     ...
     >>> fields(A).a.type
-    typing.List[ForwardRef('A')]
+    'list[A]'
     >>> fields(A).b.type
     'B'
     >>> resolve_types(A, globals(), locals())
     <class 'A'>
     >>> fields(A).a.type
-    typing.List[A]
+    list[A]
     >>> fields(A).b.type
     <class 'B'>
 
+.. note::
+
+   If you find yourself using string type annotations to handle forward references, wrap the entire type annotation in quotes instead of only the type you need a forward reference to (so ``'list[A]'`` instead of ``list['A']``).
+   This is a limitation of the Python typing system.
+
 .. warning::
 
    ``attrs`` itself doesn't have any features that work on top of type metadata *yet*.
diff --git a/docs/types.rst b/docs/types.rst
index 19bb07930..5a71c393e 100644
--- a/docs/types.rst
+++ b/docs/types.rst
@@ -10,12 +10,11 @@ That means that on modern Python versions, the declaration part of the example f
 .. doctest::
 
    >>> import attr
-   >>> import typing
 
    >>> @attr.s(auto_attribs=True)
    ... class SomeClass:
    ...     a_number: int = 42
-   ...     list_of_numbers: typing.List[int] = attr.Factory(list)
+   ...     list_of_numbers: list[int] = attr.Factory(list)
 
    >>> sc = SomeClass(1, [1, 2, 3])
    >>> sc
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ To mypy, this code is equivalent to the one above:
   @attr.s
   class SomeClass(object):
       a_number = attr.ib(default=42)  # type: int
-      list_of_numbers = attr.ib(factory=list, type=typing.List[int])
+      list_of_numbers = attr.ib(factory=list, type=list[int])
 
 
 pyright
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ Given the following definition, ``pyright`` will generate static type signatures
   @attr.define
   class SomeClass:
       a_number: int = 42
-      list_of_numbers: typing.List[int] = attr.field(factory=list)
+      list_of_numbers: list[int] = attr.field(factory=list)
 
 .. warning::