diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 509f7b26..ac9f508a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ This action automatically approves and merges dependabot PRs.
 
 ### `exclude`
 
-_Optional_ An comma separated value of packages that you don't want to auto-merge and would like to manually review to decide whether to upgrade or not.
+_Optional_ A comma separated value of packages that you don't want to auto-merge and would like to manually review to decide whether to upgrade or not.
 
 ### `approve-only`
 
@@ -35,11 +35,13 @@ _Optional_ A custom url where the external API which is delegated the task of ap
 
 ### `target`
 
-_Optional_ A flag to only auto-merge updates based on Semantic Versioning. Default to `major` merge. Possible options are:
+_Optional_ A flag to only auto-merge updates based on Semantic Versioning. Defaults to `any`.
 
-`major, premajor, minor, preminor, patch, prepatch, prerelease or any`. Defaults to `any`.
+Possible options are:
 
-For more details on how semantic version difference calculated please see [semver](https://www.npmjs.com/package/semver) package
+`major, premajor, minor, preminor, patch, prepatch, prerelease, any`.
+
+For more details on how semantic version difference is calculated please see [semver](https://www.npmjs.com/package/semver) package.
 
 ### `pr-number`
 
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index b9d3ef26..b05b1587 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ inputs:
   target:
     description: 'Auto-merge on major, minor, patch updates based on Semantic Versioning'
     required: false
-    default: 'major'
+    default: 'any'
   pr-number:
     description: 'A pull request number, only required if triggered from a workflow_dispatch event'
     required: false