diff --git a/config/settings/base.py b/config/settings/base.py
index a55ab8c2..eb9d0226 100644
--- a/config/settings/base.py
+++ b/config/settings/base.py
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
         "documentcloud.core.authentication.ProcessingTokenAuthentication",
     ),
     "DEFAULT_VERSIONING_CLASS": "documentcloud.core.versioning.QueryParameterVersioning",
-    "DEFAULT_VERSION": env("REST_FRAMEWORK_DEFAULT_VERSION", default="1.0"),
+    "DEFAULT_VERSION": env("REST_FRAMEWORK_DEFAULT_VERSION", default="2.0"),
     "ALLOWED_VERSIONS": ["1.0", "2.0"],
     "DEFAULT_SCHEMA_CLASS": "drf_spectacular.openapi.AutoSchema",
 }