diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index b988a76..af858c0 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Configuration
- **REST_SESSION_LOGIN** - Enable session login in Login API view (default: True)
-- **REST_USE_JWT** - Enable JWT Authentication instead of Token/Session based. This is built on top of django-rest-framework-jwt http://getblimp.github.io/django-rest-framework-jwt/, which must also be installed. (default: False)
+- **REST_USE_JWT** - Enable JWT Authentication instead of Token/Session based. This is built on top of djangorestframework-simplejwt https://github.com/SimpleJWT/django-rest-framework-simplejwt, which must also be installed. (default: False)
- **OLD_PASSWORD_FIELD_ENABLED** - set it to True if you want to have old password verification on password change enpoint (default: False)
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index cba551e..5004752 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -248,12 +248,23 @@ JSON Web Token (JWT) Support (optional)
By default ``dj-rest-auth`` uses Django's Token-based authentication. If you want to use JWT authentication, follow these steps:
-1. Install `djangorestframework-jwt `_
- - ``djangorestframework-jwt`` is currently the only supported JWT library.
-2. The ``JWT_PAYLOAD_HANDLER`` and ``JWT_ENCODE_HANDLER`` settings are imported from the ``django-rest-framework-jwt`` settings object.
- - Refer to `the library's documentation `_ for information on using different encoders.
+1. Install `djangorestframework-simplejwt `_
+ - ``djangorestframework-simplejwt`` is currently the only supported JWT library.
-3. Add the following configuration value to your settings file to enable JWT authentication.
+2. Add a simple_jwt auth configuration to the list of authentication classes.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
+ ...
+ 'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
+ ...
+ 'rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication',
+ )
+ ...
+ }
+
+3. Add the following configuration value to your settings file to enable JWT authentication in dj-rest-auth.
.. code-block:: python