diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
index d79ad38cd..4d4d6ba6f 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
 | controller.metrics.serviceMonitor.relabelings | list | `[]` |  |
 | controller.metrics.serviceMonitor.scrapeInterval | string | `"30s"` |  |
 | controller.metrics.serviceMonitor.targetLabels | list | `[]` |  |
-| controller.minAvailable | int | `1` | Define either 'minAvailable' or 'maxUnavailable', never both. |
+| controller.minAvailable | int | `1` | Minimum available pods set in PodDisruptionBudget. Define either 'minAvailable' or 'maxUnavailable', never both. |
 | controller.minReadySeconds | int | `0` | `minReadySeconds` to avoid killing pods before we are ready # |
 | controller.name | string | `"controller"` |  |
 | controller.nodeSelector | object | `{"kubernetes.io/os":"linux"}` | Node labels for controller pod assignment # Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/node-selection/ # |
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-poddisruptionbudget.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
index 230307cd7..91be5801f 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ spec:
     matchLabels:
       {{- include "ingress-nginx.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
       app.kubernetes.io/component: controller
-  {{- if .Values.controller.minAvailable }}
+  {{- if and .Values.controller.minAvailable (not (hasKey .Values.controller "maxUnavailable")) }}
   minAvailable: {{ .Values.controller.minAvailable }}
   {{- else if .Values.controller.maxUnavailable }}
   maxUnavailable: {{ .Values.controller.maxUnavailable }}
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
index a398b0503..e0b38c5a7 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
@@ -308,9 +308,10 @@ controller:
   ##
   podAnnotations: {}
   replicaCount: 1
-  # -- Define either 'minAvailable' or 'maxUnavailable', never both.
+  # -- Minimum available pods set in PodDisruptionBudget.
+  # Define either 'minAvailable' or 'maxUnavailable', never both.
   minAvailable: 1
-  # -- Define either 'minAvailable' or 'maxUnavailable', never both.
+  # -- Maximum unavalaile pods set in PodDisruptionBudget. If set, 'minAvailable' is ignored.
   # maxUnavailable: 1
 
   ## Define requests resources to avoid probe issues due to CPU utilization in busy nodes