diff --git a/actix-files/Cargo.toml b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
index 13c697809..456314bdf 100644
--- a/actix-files/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ io-uring = ["actix-web/io-uring", "tokio-uring"]
 actix-web = { version = "4.0.0-beta.9", default-features = false }
 actix-http = "3.0.0-beta.10"
 actix-service = "2.0.0"
-actix-utils = "3.0.0"
 
 askama_escape = "0.10"
 bitflags = "1"
diff --git a/actix-files/src/named.rs b/actix-files/src/named.rs
index 06b32bb30..bff585761 100644
--- a/actix-files/src/named.rs
+++ b/actix-files/src/named.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use actix_service::{Service, ServiceFactory};
-use actix_utils::future::{ok, Ready};
 use actix_web::dev::{AppService, HttpServiceFactory, ResourceDef};
 use futures_core::future::LocalBoxFuture;
 
@@ -604,14 +603,16 @@ impl ServiceFactory<ServiceRequest> for NamedFile {
     type Response = ServiceResponse;
     type Error = Error;
     type Config = ();
-    type InitError = ();
     type Service = NamedFileService;
-    type Future = Ready<Result<Self::Service, ()>>;
+    type InitError = ();
+    type Future = LocalBoxFuture<'static, Result<Self::Service, Self::InitError>>;
 
     fn new_service(&self, _: ()) -> Self::Future {
-        ok(NamedFileService {
+        let service = NamedFileService {
             path: self.path.clone(),
-        })
+        };
+
+        Box::pin(async move { Ok(service) })
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/actix-files/src/path_buf.rs b/actix-files/src/path_buf.rs
index 76f589307..b3000cda0 100644
--- a/actix-files/src/path_buf.rs
+++ b/actix-files/src/path_buf.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use std::{
+    future::{ready, Ready},
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
     str::FromStr,
 };
 
-use actix_utils::future::{ready, Ready};
 use actix_web::{dev::Payload, FromRequest, HttpRequest};
 
 use crate::error::UriSegmentError;