diff --git a/changelog.d/1496.change.md b/changelog.d/1496.change.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3dd5a305
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/1496.change.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix type annotations for `optional` validator so it no longer rejects tuples of len > 1
diff --git a/src/attr/validators.pyi b/src/attr/validators.pyi
index 36a7e800c..18fb112c8 100644
--- a/src/attr/validators.pyi
+++ b/src/attr/validators.pyi
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def optional(
     validator: (
         _ValidatorType[_T]
         | list[_ValidatorType[_T]]
-        | tuple[_ValidatorType[_T]]
+        | tuple[_ValidatorType[_T], ...]
     ),
 ) -> _ValidatorType[_T | None]: ...
 def in_(options: Container[_T]) -> _ValidatorType[_T]: ...
diff --git a/typing-examples/baseline.py b/typing-examples/baseline.py
index 195b3262b..4a666dd8e 100644
--- a/typing-examples/baseline.py
+++ b/typing-examples/baseline.py
@@ -94,6 +94,19 @@ class Validated:
     num: int = attrs.field(validator=attrs.validators.ge(0))
 
 
+@attrs.define
+class ValidatedOptionalOverTuple:
+    num: int | None = attrs.field(
+        validator=attrs.validators.optional(
+            (attrs.validators.instance_of(int), attrs.validators.ge(0))
+            # `int(0)` needed to avoid false positive
+            #     `invalid-argument-type` when checking with
+            #     ty 0.0.8 (aa7559db8 2025-12-29): ty assumes `ge`'s
+            #     specialization is `Literal[0]` rather than `int`
+        )
+    )
+
+
 @attrs.define
 class ValidatedInconsistentOr:
     num: int | str = attrs.field(