diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
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--- a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Enhancement: add more status counters to `restic copy`
 
 `restic copy` now produces more status counters in text format. The new counters
 are the number of blobs to copy, their size on disk and the number of packfiles
-used from the source repository.
+used from the source repository. The additional statistics is only produced when
+the `--verbose` option is apecified.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5175
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5319