diff --git a/spec/async-spec-helpers.coffee b/spec/async-spec-helpers.coffee
index 5f8e03ca3..6ed8a5a2b 100644
--- a/spec/async-spec-helpers.coffee
+++ b/spec/async-spec-helpers.coffee
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ exports.afterEach = (fn) ->
 
 waitsForPromise = (fn) ->
   promise = fn()
-  waitsFor 'spec promise to resolve', 30000, (done) ->
+  # This timeout is 3 minutes. We need to bump it back down once we fix backgrounding
+  # of the renderer process on CI. See https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/4317
+  waitsFor 'spec promise to resolve', 3 * 60 * 1000, (done) ->
     promise.then(
       done,
       (error) ->