diff --git a/sycl/include/sycl/sycl.hpp b/sycl/include/sycl/sycl.hpp
index 664fecf9f1184..37183752db8c7 100644
--- a/sycl/include/sycl/sycl.hpp
+++ b/sycl/include/sycl/sycl.hpp
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ can be disabled by setting SYCL_DISABLE_FSYCL_SYCLHPP_WARNING macro.")
 #undef __SYCL_TOSTRING
 #undef __SYCL_STRINGIFY
 
+#ifndef __INTEL_PREVIEW_BREAKING_CHANGES
+// <sycl/sycl.hpp> is not a iostream "provider", however iostream was included
+// in some of SYCL transitive headers. Customers relied on that inclusion, so it
+// should be kept for now and be removed once breaking changes are allowed.
+#include <iostream>
+#endif
+
 // All SYCL macro are provided through this header
 #include <sycl/khr/split_headers/version.hpp>