diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/chroma.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/chroma.py
index abd64f56275..3bcb389cff5 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/chroma.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/chroma.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class Chroma(VectorStore):
         b64_texts = [self.encode_image(uri=uri) for uri in uris]
         # Populate IDs
         if ids is None:
-            ids = [str(uuid.uuid1()) for _ in uris]
+            ids = [str(uuid.uuid4()) for _ in uris]
         embeddings = None
         # Set embeddings
         if self._embedding_function is not None and hasattr(
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ class Chroma(VectorStore):
         """
         # TODO: Handle the case where the user doesn't provide ids on the Collection
         if ids is None:
-            ids = [str(uuid.uuid1()) for _ in texts]
+            ids = [str(uuid.uuid4()) for _ in texts]
         embeddings = None
         texts = list(texts)
         if self._embedding_function is not None:
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ class Chroma(VectorStore):
             **kwargs,
         )
         if ids is None:
-            ids = [str(uuid.uuid1()) for _ in texts]
+            ids = [str(uuid.uuid4()) for _ in texts]
         if hasattr(
             chroma_collection._client, "max_batch_size"
         ):  # for Chroma 0.4.10 and above