diff --git a/.github/workflows/make_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/make_docs.yml
index b26f5a7c..bae528ee 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/make_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/make_docs.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Running the Sphinx to gh-pages Action
         uses: uibcdf/action-sphinx-docs-to-gh-pages@v1.0.0
         with:
-          branch: develop
+          branch: main
           dir_docs: docs/source
           sphinxapiopts: '--separate -f -E --implicit-namespaces -l -o . ../'
           sphinxapiexclude: '../*setup* ../*.ipynb'