diff --git a/docs/web/feature-engineering/materialized-views.mdx b/docs/web/feature-engineering/materialized-views.mdx
index 15dcf64ce..b0e7e142b 100644
--- a/docs/web/feature-engineering/materialized-views.mdx
+++ b/docs/web/feature-engineering/materialized-views.mdx
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ and `REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW` -- and the work runs on the cluster rather than
 in your process. `source_version` is for local views only; the SDK refuses it
 on a remote refresh.
 
-Materialized views are experimental on a deployment, which has to have them
-enabled. How its refresh works -- rebuilding the whole view, as above, or
-reconciling what changed in the source -- depends on its LanceDB Enterprise
+Materialized views are off by default on a deployment and have to be enabled
+there. How a deployment refreshes a view -- rebuilding the whole view, as above,
+or reconciling what changed in the source -- depends on its LanceDB Enterprise
 version and configuration, and so do the options
 [`REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW`](/sql/dml/refresh#refresh-materialized-view)
 accepts.
diff --git a/docs/web/management/materialized-view.mdx b/docs/web/management/materialized-view.mdx
index 71b7332ef..bc7aa92c5 100644
--- a/docs/web/management/materialized-view.mdx
+++ b/docs/web/management/materialized-view.mdx
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ rows. Both are properties; on an async view, the definition is read with
 <Badge color="red">Enterprise</Badge> `create_materialized_view` works on a
 `db://` connection as well as a local one. There the SDK creates and refreshes
 the view through SQL, and the work runs on the cluster rather than in your
-process. Materialized views are experimental on a deployment and have to be
+process. Materialized views are off by default on a deployment and have to be
 enabled there; see
 [Against a deployment](/feature-engineering/materialized-views#availability).
 
diff --git a/docs/web/sql/ddl/materialized-view.mdx b/docs/web/sql/ddl/materialized-view.mdx
index eeb053639..9c68af2f2 100644
--- a/docs/web/sql/ddl/materialized-view.mdx
+++ b/docs/web/sql/ddl/materialized-view.mdx
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ A materialized view stores a query's result as rows, kept current by a refresh
 -- the counterpart to a [view](/sql/ddl/view), which stores only the query.
 
 <Note>
-Materialized views are experimental on a deployment, which has to have them
-enabled. Which statements and query shapes a deployment accepts, and how its
-refresh works, depend on its LanceDB Enterprise version and configuration.
+Materialized views are off by default on a deployment and have to be enabled
+there. Which statements and query shapes a deployment accepts, and how it
+refreshes a view, depend on its LanceDB Enterprise version and configuration.
 </Note>
 
 ## CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW {#create}