diff --git a/src/torchmetrics/functional/segmentation/dice.py b/src/torchmetrics/functional/segmentation/dice.py
index 029f5b25dd1..715969cefee 100644
--- a/src/torchmetrics/functional/segmentation/dice.py
+++ b/src/torchmetrics/functional/segmentation/dice.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 from typing_extensions import Literal
 
 from torchmetrics.functional.segmentation.utils import _ignore_background
+from torchmetrics.utilities import rank_zero_warn
 from torchmetrics.utilities.checks import _check_same_shape
 from torchmetrics.utilities.compute import _safe_divide
 
@@ -154,6 +155,13 @@ def dice_score(
                 [0.1978, 0.2804, 0.1714, 0.1915, 0.2783]])
 
     """
+    if average == "micro":
+        rank_zero_warn(
+            "dice_score metric currently defaults to `average=micro`, but will change to"
+            "`average=macro` in the v1.9 release."
+            " If you've explicitly set this parameter, you can ignore this warning.",
+            UserWarning,
+        )
     _dice_score_validate_args(num_classes, include_background, average, input_format)
     numerator, denominator, support = _dice_score_update(preds, target, num_classes, include_background, input_format)
     return _dice_score_compute(numerator, denominator, average, support=support)
diff --git a/src/torchmetrics/segmentation/dice.py b/src/torchmetrics/segmentation/dice.py
index 54f2eedf0cf..174812e6a1f 100644
--- a/src/torchmetrics/segmentation/dice.py
+++ b/src/torchmetrics/segmentation/dice.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     _dice_score_validate_args,
 )
 from torchmetrics.metric import Metric
+from torchmetrics.utilities import rank_zero_warn
 from torchmetrics.utilities.data import dim_zero_cat
 from torchmetrics.utilities.imports import _MATPLOTLIB_AVAILABLE
 from torchmetrics.utilities.plot import _AX_TYPE, _PLOT_OUT_TYPE
@@ -116,6 +117,13 @@ def __init__(
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        if average == "micro":
+            rank_zero_warn(
+                "DiceScore metric currently defaults to `average=micro`, but will change to"
+                "`average=macro` in the v1.9 release."
+                " If you've explicitly set this parameter, you can ignore this warning.",
+                UserWarning,
+            )
         _dice_score_validate_args(num_classes, include_background, average, input_format, zero_division)
         self.num_classes = num_classes
         self.include_background = include_background