diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fa26b27bf01..0450d225737 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All of the packages in the `apollo-server` repo are released with the same versi
 
 ### vNEXT
 
+- Follow-up on the work in [PR #1516](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1516) to also fix missing insertion cursor/caret when a custom GraphQL configuration is specified which doesn't specify its own `cursorShape` property. [PR #1607](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1607)
+
 ### v2.1.0
 
 - Updated the google-cloud-functions package to handle null paths [PR #1674](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1674)
diff --git a/packages/apollo-server-core/src/playground.ts b/packages/apollo-server-core/src/playground.ts
index f92e8560fe4..313ebbf309a 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-server-core/src/playground.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-server-core/src/playground.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export const defaultPlaygroundOptions = {
   settings: {
     'general.betaUpdates': false,
     'editor.theme': 'dark' as Theme,
+    'editor.cursorShape': 'line',
     'editor.reuseHeaders': true,
     'tracing.hideTracingResponse': true,
     'editor.fontSize': 14,