diff --git a/internal/cmd/apis/common.go b/internal/cmd/apis/common.go
index 68cf4ebcb..045945c96 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/apis/common.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/apis/common.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 const deploymentMsg = "When set to true, generateDeployChangeReport will be executed and " +
-	"deployment will proceed if there are no conflicts; default is true"
+	"deployment will proceed if there are no conflicts; default is false"
 
 func GetRevision(respBody []byte) (revision int, err error) {
 	var apiProxyRevResp map[string]interface{}
diff --git a/internal/cmd/apis/undepapi.go b/internal/cmd/apis/undepapi.go
index 0b422b8d7..e30f8bb3a 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/apis/undepapi.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/apis/undepapi.go
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func init() {
 	UndepCmd.Flags().IntVarP(&revision, "rev", "v",
 		-1, "API Proxy revision. If not set, the highest revision is used")
 	UndepCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&safeUndeploy, "safeundeploy", "",
-		true, deploymentMsg)
+		false, deploymentMsg)
 
 	_ = UndepCmd.MarkFlagRequired("env")
 	_ = UndepCmd.MarkFlagRequired("name")