diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
index 8e0928654dc..19593dfb902 100644
--- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -1082,7 +1082,8 @@ Attributes
 
 .. attribute:: StreamingHttpResponse.streaming_content
 
-    An iterator of strings representing the content.
+    An iterator of the response content, bytestring encoded according to
+    :attr:`HttpResponse.charset`.
 
 .. attribute:: StreamingHttpResponse.status_code