diff --git a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
index 3bd2fabac491a..e0fca0e0b04e2 100644
--- a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
+++ b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
@@ -687,12 +687,12 @@ config_namespace! {
 
         /// (reading) If true, filter expressions are be applied during the parquet decoding operation to
         /// reduce the number of rows decoded. This optimization is sometimes called "late materialization".
-        pub pushdown_filters: bool, default = false
+        pub pushdown_filters: bool, default = true
 
         /// (reading) If true, filter expressions evaluated during the parquet decoding operation
         /// will be reordered heuristically to minimize the cost of evaluation. If false,
         /// the filters are applied in the same order as written in the query
-        pub reorder_filters: bool, default = false
+        pub reorder_filters: bool, default = true
 
         /// (reading) If true, parquet reader will read columns of `Utf8/Utf8Large` with `Utf8View`,
         /// and `Binary/BinaryLarge` with `BinaryView`.