diff --git a/plugin.go b/plugin.go
index 5ec1d72..e89e373 100644
--- a/plugin.go
+++ b/plugin.go
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ func tfDestroy(config Config) *exec.Cmd {
 	if config.InitOptions.LockTimeout != "" {
 		args = append(args, fmt.Sprintf("-lock-timeout=%s", config.InitOptions.LockTimeout))
 	}
-	args = append(args, "-force")
+	args = append(args, "-auto-approve")
 	return exec.Command(
 		"terraform",
 		args...,
diff --git a/plugin_test.go b/plugin_test.go
index d14e770..bce7901 100644
--- a/plugin_test.go
+++ b/plugin_test.go
@@ -113,27 +113,27 @@ func TestPlugin(t *testing.T) {
 				{
 					"default",
 					args{config: Config{}},
-					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-force"),
+					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-auto-approve"),
 				},
 				{
 					"with parallelism",
 					args{config: Config{Parallelism: 5}},
-					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-parallelism=5", "-force"),
+					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-parallelism=5", "-auto-approve"),
 				},
 				{
 					"with targets",
 					args{config: Config{Targets: []string{"target1", "target2"}}},
-					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-target=target1", "-target=target2", "-force"),
+					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-target=target1", "-target=target2", "-auto-approve"),
 				},
 				{
 					"with vars",
 					args{config: Config{Vars: map[string]string{"username": "someuser", "password": "1pass"}}},
-					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-var", "username=someuser", "-var", "password=1pass", "-force"),
+					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-var", "username=someuser", "-var", "password=1pass", "-auto-approve"),
 				},
 				{
 					"with var-files",
 					args{config: Config{VarFiles: []string{"common.tfvars", "prod.tfvars"}}},
-					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-var-file=common.tfvars", "-var-file=prod.tfvars", "-force"),
+					exec.Command("terraform", "destroy", "-var-file=common.tfvars", "-var-file=prod.tfvars", "-auto-approve"),
 				},
 			}