diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 212d4a883..d8e901715 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ Saiprasad Kale
 Samuel Colvin
 Samuel Dion-Girardeau
 Samuel Searles-Bryant
+Samuel Therrien (Avasam)
 Samuele Pedroni
 Sanket Duthade
 Sankt Petersbug
diff --git a/changelog/11600.improvement.rst b/changelog/11600.improvement.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7082e2c1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/11600.improvement.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improved the documentation and type signature for :func:`pytest.mark.xfail <pytest.mark.xfail>`'s ``condition`` param to use ``False`` as the default value.
diff --git a/doc/en/reference/reference.rst b/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
index 0240e1f4a..f6dabb245 100644
--- a/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
+++ b/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
@@ -239,12 +239,11 @@ pytest.mark.xfail
 
 Marks a test function as *expected to fail*.
 
-.. py:function:: pytest.mark.xfail(condition=None, *, reason=None, raises=None, run=True, strict=xfail_strict)
+.. py:function:: pytest.mark.xfail(condition=False, *, reason=None, raises=None, run=True, strict=xfail_strict)
 
-    :type condition: bool or str
-    :param condition:
+    :keyword Union[bool, str] condition:
         Condition for marking the test function as xfail (``True/False`` or a
-        :ref:`condition string <string conditions>`). If a bool, you also have
+        :ref:`condition string <string conditions>`). If a ``bool``, you also have
         to specify ``reason`` (see :ref:`condition string <string conditions>`).
     :keyword str reason:
         Reason why the test function is marked as xfail.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py b/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
index bbde68644..55ec67700 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
         @overload
         def __call__(
             self,
-            condition: Union[str, bool] = ...,
+            condition: Union[str, bool] = False,
             *conditions: Union[str, bool],
             reason: str = ...,
             run: bool = ...,