diff --git a/app/services/ci/create_job_artifacts_service.rb b/app/services/ci/create_job_artifacts_service.rb
index 9a6e103e5dd3174c05e519f5764024386d3d6a37..cd3807e049525fe6dd769c468662f91fdaf6b504 100644
--- a/app/services/ci/create_job_artifacts_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/ci/create_job_artifacts_service.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def authorize(artifact_type:, filesize: nil)
 
       if lsif?(artifact_type)
         headers[:ProcessLsif] = true
-        headers[:ProcessLsifReferences] = Feature.enabled?(:code_navigation_references, project, default_enabled: false)
+        headers[:ProcessLsifReferences] = Feature.enabled?(:code_navigation_references, project, default_enabled: true)
       end
 
       success(headers: headers)
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/225621-enable-ff-by-default.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/225621-enable-ff-by-default.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ce0285a86a0a0f2fbcba7c873502f470a52ee91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/225621-enable-ff-by-default.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Code navigation displays references when browsing repository
+merge_request: 39214
+author:
+type: changed
diff --git a/doc/user/project/code_intelligence.md b/doc/user/project/code_intelligence.md
index a4b64b074ad83103280dc173a64fb967a68db75e..be34053cdc74cb99acd94fc9efb1b72dfc3a41b5 100644
--- a/doc/user/project/code_intelligence.md
+++ b/doc/user/project/code_intelligence.md
@@ -42,6 +42,36 @@ After the job succeeds, code intelligence data can be viewed while browsing the
 
 ![Code intelligence](img/code_intelligence_v13_1.png)
 
+## Find references
+
+> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217392) in GitLab 13.2.
+> - [Became enabled by default](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/225621) on GitLab 13.3.
+> - It's enabled on GitLab.com.
+
+To find where a particular object is being used, you can see links to specific lines of code
+under the **References** tab:
+
+![Find references](img/code_intelligence_find_references_v13_3.png)
+
+### Enable or disable find references
+
+Find references is under development but ready for production use.
+It is deployed behind a feature flag that is **enabled by default**.
+[GitLab administrators with access to the GitLab Rails console](../../administration/feature_flags.md)
+can opt to disable it for your instance.
+
+To disable it:
+
+```ruby
+Feature.disable(:code_navigation_references)
+```
+
+To enable it:
+
+```ruby
+Feature.enable(:code_navigation_references)
+```
+
 ## Language support
 
 Generating an LSIF file requires a language server indexer implementation for the
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