diff --git a/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py b/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py
index 3777302..212692a 100644
--- a/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py
+++ b/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ class TerminalInteractiveShell(InteractiveShell):
     ).tag(config=True)
 
     autoformatter = Unicode(
-        "black",
+        None,
         help="Autoformatter to reformat Terminal code. Can be `'black'`, `'yapf'` or `None`",
         allow_none=True
     ).tag(config=True)
diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/version8.rst b/docs/source/whatsnew/version8.rst
index 7b2318f..12c5d1f 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/version8.rst
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/version8.rst
@@ -344,12 +344,11 @@ For more information please see the following unit test : ``extensions/tests/tes
 Auto formatting with black in the CLI
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-If ``black`` is installed in the same environment as IPython, terminal IPython
-will now *by default*  reformat the code in the CLI when possible. You can
-disable this with ``--TerminalInteractiveShell.autoformatter=None``.
-
 This feature was present in 7.x, but disabled by default.
 
+In 8.0, input was automatically reformatted with Black when black was installed.
+This feature has been reverted for the time being.
+You can re-enable it by setting ``TerminalInteractiveShell.autoformatter`` to ``"black"``
 
 History Range Glob feature
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~