diff --git a/internal/backend/local/backend_apply.go b/internal/backend/local/backend_apply.go
index 42e78d9405d6..a6c6ea9f0b4b 100644
--- a/internal/backend/local/backend_apply.go
+++ b/internal/backend/local/backend_apply.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package local
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 
@@ -16,6 +17,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/tfdiags"
 )
 
+// test hook called between plan+apply during opApply
+var testHookStopPlanApply func()
+
 func (b *Local) opApply(
 	stopCtx context.Context,
 	cancelCtx context.Context,
@@ -88,6 +92,22 @@ func (b *Local) opApply(
 		mustConfirm := hasUI && !op.AutoApprove && !trivialPlan
 		op.View.Plan(plan, schemas)
 
+		if testHookStopPlanApply != nil {
+			testHookStopPlanApply()
+		}
+
+		// Check if we've been stopped before going through confirmation, or
+		// skipping confirmation in the case of -auto-approve.
+		// This can currently happen if a single stop request was received
+		// during the final batch of resource plan calls, so no operations were
+		// forced to abort, and no errors were returned from Plan.
+		if stopCtx.Err() != nil {
+			diags = diags.Append(errors.New("execution halted"))
+			runningOp.Result = backend.OperationFailure
+			op.ReportResult(runningOp, diags)
+			return
+		}
+
 		if mustConfirm {
 			var desc, query string
 			switch op.PlanMode {
diff --git a/internal/backend/local/backend_apply_test.go b/internal/backend/local/backend_apply_test.go
index 1f9514ad5410..493000a802b3 100644
--- a/internal/backend/local/backend_apply_test.go
+++ b/internal/backend/local/backend_apply_test.go
@@ -351,3 +351,36 @@ func applyFixtureSchema() *terraform.ProviderSchema {
 		},
 	}
 }
+
+func TestApply_applyCanceledAutoApprove(t *testing.T) {
+	b := TestLocal(t)
+
+	TestLocalProvider(t, b, "test", applyFixtureSchema())
+
+	op, configCleanup, done := testOperationApply(t, "./testdata/apply")
+	op.AutoApprove = true
+	defer configCleanup()
+	defer func() {
+		output := done(t)
+		if !strings.Contains(output.Stderr(), "execution halted") {
+			t.Fatal("expected 'execution halted', got:\n", output.All())
+		}
+	}()
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	testHookStopPlanApply = cancel
+	defer func() {
+		testHookStopPlanApply = nil
+	}()
+
+	run, err := b.Operation(ctx, op)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error starting operation: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	<-run.Done()
+	if run.Result == backend.OperationSuccess {
+		t.Fatal("expected apply operation to fail")
+	}
+
+}