diff --git a/src/peft/tuners/lora.py b/src/peft/tuners/lora.py
index 2440deadd5..6ddbc4716d 100644
--- a/src/peft/tuners/lora.py
+++ b/src/peft/tuners/lora.py
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ class LoraConfig(PeftConfig):
         lora_dropout (`float`): The dropout probability for Lora layers.
         fan_in_fan_out (`bool`): Set this to True if the layer to replace stores weight like (fan_in, fan_out).
         For example, gpt-2 uses `Conv1D` which stores weights like (fan_in, fan_out) and hence this should be set to `True`.:
-        bias (`str`): Bias type for Lora. Can be 'none', 'all' or 'lora_only'
+        bias (`str`): Bias type for Lora. Can be 'none', 'all' or 'lora_only'. If 'all' or 'lora_only', the
+            corresponding biases will be updated during training. Be aware that this means that, even when disabling
+            the adapters, the model will not produce the same output as the base model would have without adaptation.
         modules_to_save (`List[str]`):List of modules apart from LoRA layers to be set as trainable
             and saved in the final checkpoint.
         layers_to_transform (`Union[List[int],int]`):
@@ -400,7 +402,27 @@ def _set_adapter_layers(self, enabled=True):
     def enable_adapter_layers(self):
         self._set_adapter_layers(enabled=True)
 
+    def _get_active_adapter(self) -> str:
+        active_adapter = None
+        for module in self.model.modules():
+            if isinstance(module, LoraLayer):
+                active_adapter = module.active_adapter
+
+        if active_adapter is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Something went wrong, no active adapter could be found, please report the issue on GitHub"
+            )
+        return active_adapter
+
     def disable_adapter_layers(self):
+        active_adapter = self._get_active_adapter()
+        val = self.peft_config[active_adapter].bias
+        if val != "none":
+            msg = (
+                f"Careful, disabling adapter layers with bias configured to be '{val}' does not produce the same "
+                "output as the the base model would without adaption."
+            )
+            warnings.warn(msg)
         self._set_adapter_layers(enabled=False)
 
     def set_adapter(self, adapter_name):
diff --git a/tests/test_custom_models.py b/tests/test_custom_models.py
index 8de1d6c80c..ac78286e89 100644
--- a/tests/test_custom_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_custom_models.py
@@ -264,3 +264,47 @@ def test_disable_adapters(self, test_name, model_id, config_cls, config_kwargs):
 
         self.assertFalse(torch.allclose(outputs_before, outputs_after))
         self.assertTrue(torch.allclose(outputs_before, outputs_disabled))
+
+    @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASES)
+    def test_disable_adapter_with_bias_warns(self, test_name, model_id, config_cls, config_kwargs):
+        # When training biases in lora, disabling adapters does not reset the biases, so the output is not what users
+        # might expect. Therefore, a warning should be given.
+
+        # Note: We test only with custom models since they run really fast. There is really no point in testing the same
+        # thing with decoder, encoder_decoder, etc.
+
+        def run_with_disable(config_kwargs, bias):
+            config_kwargs = config_kwargs.copy()
+            config_kwargs["bias"] = bias
+            model = self.transformers_class.from_pretrained(model_id).to(self.torch_device)
+            config = config_cls(
+                base_model_name_or_path=model_id,
+                **config_kwargs,
+            )
+            peft_model = get_peft_model(model, config)
+            with peft_model.disable_adapter():
+                pass  # there is nothing to be done
+
+        # check that bias=all and bias=lora_only give a warning with the correct message
+        msg_start = "Careful, disabling adapter layers with bias configured to be"
+        with self.assertWarns(UserWarning, msg=msg_start):
+            run_with_disable(config_kwargs, bias="lora_only")
+        with self.assertWarns(UserWarning, msg=msg_start):
+            run_with_disable(config_kwargs, bias="all")
+
+        # For bias=none, there is no warning. Unfortunately, AFAIK unittest has no option to assert that no warning is
+        # given, therefore, we check that the unittest gives us an AssertionError if we check for a warning
+        bias_warning_was_given = False
+        try:
+            with self.assertWarns(UserWarning) as cm:
+                run_with_disable(config_kwargs, bias="none")
+                # if we get here, it means there was no AssertionError, i.e. there are warnings -- let's check that they
+                # are not related to the bias setting
+                if any(warning.message.args[0].startswith(msg_start) for warning in cm.warnings):
+                    bias_warning_was_given = True
+        except AssertionError:
+            # This is good, there was an AssertionError, i.e. there was no warning
+            pass
+        if bias_warning_was_given:
+            # This is bad, there was a warning about the bias when there should not have been any.
+            self.fail("There should be no warning when bias is set to 'none'")