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+#### Disable Approval Check
+
+The Step Issuer will wait for CertificateRequests to have an [approved condition
+set](https://cert-manager.io/docs/concepts/certificaterequest/#approval) before
+signing. If using an older version of cert-manager (pre v1.3), you can disable
+this check by supplying the command line flag `-disable-approval-check` to the
+Issuer Deployment.
+
 ### Adding a StepIssuer
 
 Now, we're going to use all the configuration values that we got after