diff --git a/.changeset/sixty-rats-talk.md b/.changeset/sixty-rats-talk.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad2575f83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/sixty-rats-talk.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+'@backstage/create-app': patch
+---
+
+Bump version of `cypress` in newly scaffolded Backstage Applications. To apply this change to your own instance, please make the following change to `packages/app/package.json` under `devDependencies`.
+
+```diff
+-   "cypress": "^7.3.0",
++   "cypress": "^9.7.0",
+```
diff --git a/.github/workflows/verify_e2e-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/verify_e2e-windows.yml
index 0514742700..934ef8f06c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/verify_e2e-windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/verify_e2e-windows.yml
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ jobs:
         run: yarn e2e-test run
         env:
           DEBUG: zombie
-          CYPRESS_VERIFY_TIMEOUT: 60000
+          CYPRESS_VERIFY_TIMEOUT: 600000
diff --git a/packages/create-app/templates/default-app/packages/app/package.json.hbs b/packages/create-app/templates/default-app/packages/app/package.json.hbs
index 9bf67f6e52..54cd516058 100644
--- a/packages/create-app/templates/default-app/packages/app/package.json.hbs
+++ b/packages/create-app/templates/default-app/packages/app/package.json.hbs
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     "@types/node": "^14.14.32",
     "@types/react-dom": "*",
     "cross-env": "^7.0.0",
-    "cypress": "^7.3.0",
+    "cypress": "^9.7.0",
     "eslint-plugin-cypress": "^2.10.3",
     "start-server-and-test": "^1.10.11"
   },