diff --git a/awx/api/conf.py b/awx/api/conf.py
index dd380c5646..ccd1ddf08c 100644
--- a/awx/api/conf.py
+++ b/awx/api/conf.py
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ register(
     label=_('Allow External Users to Create OAuth2 Tokens'),
     help_text=_('For security reasons, users from external auth providers (LDAP, SAML, '
                 'SSO, Radius, and others) are not allowed to create OAuth2 tokens. '
-                'To change this behavior, enable this setting.'),
+                'To change this behavior, enable this setting. Existing tokens will '
+                'not be deleted when this setting is toggled off.'),
     category=_('Authentication'),
     category_slug='authentication',
 )