diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
index 6ebed5e1df..8f33b50682 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
@@ -512,8 +512,13 @@ class DiffusionPipeline(ConfigMixin):
 
             save_method(os.path.join(save_directory, pipeline_component_name), **save_kwargs)
 
-    def to(self, torch_device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None, silence_dtype_warnings: bool = False):
-        if torch_device is None:
+    def to(
+        self,
+        torch_device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
+        torch_dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
+        silence_dtype_warnings: bool = False,
+    ):
+        if torch_device is None and torch_dtype is None:
             return self
 
         # throw warning if pipeline is in "offloaded"-mode but user tries to manually set to GPU.
@@ -550,6 +555,7 @@ class DiffusionPipeline(ConfigMixin):
         for name in module_names.keys():
             module = getattr(self, name)
             if isinstance(module, torch.nn.Module):
+                module.to(torch_device, torch_dtype)
                 if (
                     module.dtype == torch.float16
                     and str(torch_device) in ["cpu"]
@@ -563,7 +569,6 @@ class DiffusionPipeline(ConfigMixin):
                         " support for`float16` operations on this device in PyTorch. Please, remove the"
                         " `torch_dtype=torch.float16` argument, or use another device for inference."
                     )
-                module.to(torch_device)
         return self
 
     @property
diff --git a/tests/test_pipelines_common.py b/tests/test_pipelines_common.py
index 504acf1b97..1ab6baeb81 100644
--- a/tests/test_pipelines_common.py
+++ b/tests/test_pipelines_common.py
@@ -344,11 +344,8 @@ class PipelineTesterMixin:
         pipe.to(torch_device)
         pipe.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
 
-        for name, module in components.items():
-            if hasattr(module, "half"):
-                components[name] = module.half()
         pipe_fp16 = self.pipeline_class(**components)
-        pipe_fp16.to(torch_device)
+        pipe_fp16.to(torch_device, torch.float16)
         pipe_fp16.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
 
         output = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs(torch_device))[0]
@@ -447,6 +444,18 @@ class PipelineTesterMixin:
         output_cuda = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs("cuda"))[0]
         self.assertTrue(np.isnan(output_cuda).sum() == 0)
 
+    def test_to_dtype(self):
+        components = self.get_dummy_components()
+        pipe = self.pipeline_class(**components)
+        pipe.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
+
+        model_dtypes = [component.dtype for component in components.values() if hasattr(component, "dtype")]
+        self.assertTrue(all(dtype == torch.float32 for dtype in model_dtypes))
+
+        pipe.to(torch_dtype=torch.float16)
+        model_dtypes = [component.dtype for component in components.values() if hasattr(component, "dtype")]
+        self.assertTrue(all(dtype == torch.float16 for dtype in model_dtypes))
+
     def test_attention_slicing_forward_pass(self):
         self._test_attention_slicing_forward_pass()