diff --git a/CHANGELOG.develop b/CHANGELOG.develop
index e3dab2d32..96f4b01b1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.develop
+++ b/CHANGELOG.develop
@@ -1834,6 +1834,8 @@ Other:
 - Fixed typos in spacemacs/search-dir* bindings (thanks to yuhan0)
 - Added =ivy-ret-visits-directory= variable (thanks to bb2020)
 - Fixed definitions of extra actions R and D for recentf (thanks to madand)
+- Renamed =counsel-more-chars= to =ivy-more-chars= to match upstream
+  (thanks to duianto)
 **** Imenu-list
 - Changed ~SPC b i~ to ~SPC b t~ for =imenu= tree view
   (thansk to Sylvain Benner)
diff --git a/layers/+completion/ivy/funcs.el b/layers/+completion/ivy/funcs.el
index 6ea13b175..0a6710b3a 100644
--- a/layers/+completion/ivy/funcs.el
+++ b/layers/+completion/ivy/funcs.el
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
                  (cdr (assoc-string tool spacemacs--counsel-commands))))
     (lambda (string &optional _pred &rest _unused)
       "Grep in the current directory for STRING."
-      ;; `counsel-more-chars' returns non-nil when more chars are needed,
-      ;; minimal chars count is configurable via `counsel-more-chars-alist'
-      (or (counsel-more-chars)
+      ;; `ivy-more-chars' returns non-nil when more chars are needed,
+      ;; minimal chars count is configurable via `ivy-more-chars-alist'
+      (or (ivy-more-chars)
           (let* ((default-directory (ivy-state-directory ivy-last))
                  (args (if (string-match-p " -- " string)
                            (let ((split (split-string string " -- ")))