diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Subtarget.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Subtarget.cpp
index 7b4ded6322098..adee9899f7fd8 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Subtarget.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Subtarget.cpp
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ void AArch64Subtarget::initializeProperties(bool HasMinSize) {
     MaxBytesForLoopAlignment = 16;
     break;
   case NeoverseV2:
+    DefaultSVETFOpts = TailFoldingOpts::Simple;
+    LLVM_FALLTHROUGH;
   case NeoverseV3:
     EpilogueVectorizationMinVF = 8;
     MaxInterleaveFactor = 4;
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-tail-folding-option.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-tail-folding-option.ll
index 7dd0f0c0ad8e0..d2b8dd9c2be48 100644
--- a/llvm/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-tail-folding-option.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-tail-folding-option.ll
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 ; RUN: opt < %s -passes=loop-vectorize -sve-tail-folding-insn-threshold=0 -S -sve-tail-folding=default -mcpu=neoverse-v1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=CHECK-NEOVERSE-V1
 ; RUN: opt < %s -passes=loop-vectorize -sve-tail-folding-insn-threshold=0 -S -mcpu=neoverse-v1 -sve-tail-folding=default | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=CHECK-NEOVERSE-V1
 ; RUN: opt < %s -passes=loop-vectorize -sve-tail-folding-insn-threshold=0 -S -mcpu=neoverse-v1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=CHECK-NEOVERSE-V1
+; Simple tail-folding is also enabled by default on neoverse-v2. Use same check prefix.
+; RUN: opt < %s -passes=loop-vectorize -sve-tail-folding-insn-threshold=0 -S -mcpu=neoverse-v2 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=CHECK-NEOVERSE-V1
 
 target triple = "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"