diff --git a/django-stubs/utils/encoding.pyi b/django-stubs/utils/encoding.pyi
index 7cd32a54a..e6cb623a1 100644
--- a/django-stubs/utils/encoding.pyi
+++ b/django-stubs/utils/encoding.pyi
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ class DjangoUnicodeDecodeError(UnicodeDecodeError):
 
 def smart_text(
     s: Any, encoding: str = ..., strings_only: bool = ..., errors: str = ...
-) -> Any: ...
+) -> str: ...
 def is_protected_type(obj: Any) -> bool: ...
 def force_text(
     s: Any, encoding: str = ..., strings_only: bool = ..., errors: str = ...
-) -> Any: ...
+) -> str: ...
 def force_bytes(
     s: Any, encoding: str = ..., strings_only: bool = ..., errors: str = ...
-) -> Any: ...
+) -> bytes: ...
 
 smart_str = smart_text
 force_str = force_text