We prove higher integrability of the spatial gradient weak solutions to parabolic systems with $\phi$-growth, where $\varphi=\varphi(t)$ is a general Orlicz function. The need be neither degenerate nor singular. Our result generalized version one J. Kinnunen and Lewis [Duke Math. 102 (2000), no. 2, 253--271] for $p$-Laplace systems.