diff --git a/include/swift/ABI/TaskGroup.h b/include/swift/ABI/TaskGroup.h
index c79d870dc8b..8f76c34478f 100644
--- a/include/swift/ABI/TaskGroup.h
+++ b/include/swift/ABI/TaskGroup.h
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ public:
 
   /// Upon a future task's completion, offer it to the task group it belongs to.
   void offer(AsyncTask *completed, AsyncContext *context);
+
+  /// Checks the cancellation status of the group.
+  bool isCancelled();
 };
 
 } // end namespace swift
diff --git a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/Task.cpp b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/Task.cpp
index 571a8f92b51..8a8fa5b7342 100644
--- a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/Task.cpp
+++ b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/Task.cpp
@@ -565,7 +565,8 @@ static AsyncTaskAndContext swift_task_create_group_future_commonImpl(
     // In a task group we would not have allowed the `add` to create a child anymore,
     // however better safe than sorry and `async let` are not expressed as task groups,
     // so they may have been spawned in any case still.
-    if (swift_task_isCancelled(parent))
+    if (swift_task_isCancelled(parent) ||
+        (group && group->isCancelled()))
       swift_task_cancel(task);
 
     // Initialize task locals with a link to the parent task.
diff --git a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.cpp b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.cpp
index ceb951f0599..dd66391127e 100644
--- a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.cpp
+++ b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.cpp
@@ -508,6 +508,10 @@ void TaskGroup::offer(AsyncTask *completedTask, AsyncContext *context) {
   asImpl(this)->offer(completedTask, context);
 }
 
+bool TaskGroup::isCancelled() {
+  return asImpl(this)->isCancelled();
+}
+
 static void fillGroupNextResult(TaskFutureWaitAsyncContext *context,
                                 PollResult result) {
   /// Fill in the result value
diff --git a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.swift b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.swift
index fa3cbfc8d77..a4f91c7a957 100644
--- a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.swift
+++ b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/TaskGroup.swift
@@ -355,12 +355,12 @@ public struct TaskGroup<ChildTaskResult> {
     _taskGroupIsEmpty(_group)
   }
 
-  /// Cancel all the remaining tasks in the group.
+  /// Cancel all the remaining, and future, tasks in the group.
   ///
-  /// A cancelled group will not will NOT accept new tasks being added into it.
-  ///
-  /// Any results, including errors thrown by tasks affected by this
-  /// cancellation, are silently discarded.
+  /// A cancelled group will not will create new tasks when the `asyncUnlessCancelled`,
+  /// function is used. It will, however, continue to create tasks when the plain `async`
+  /// function is used. Such tasks will be created yet immediately cancelled, allowing
+  /// the tasks to perform some short-cut implementation, if they are responsive to cancellation.
   ///
   /// This function may be called even from within child (or any other) tasks,
   /// and will reliably cause the group to become cancelled.
diff --git a/test/Concurrency/Runtime/async_taskgroup_cancel_then_spawn.swift b/test/Concurrency/Runtime/async_taskgroup_cancel_then_spawn.swift
index 8c3b16a02ff..f26af3f6637 100644
--- a/test/Concurrency/Runtime/async_taskgroup_cancel_then_spawn.swift
+++ b/test/Concurrency/Runtime/async_taskgroup_cancel_then_spawn.swift
@@ -37,13 +37,16 @@ func test_taskGroup_cancel_then_add() async {
     let none = await group.next()
     print("next second: \(none)") // CHECK: next second: nil
 
-    group.spawn { 3 }
-    print("added third, unconditionally") // CHECK: added third, unconditionally
-    print("group isCancelled: \(group.isCancelled)") // CHECK: group isCancelled: true
-
+    group.spawn {
+      print("child task isCancelled: \(Task.isCancelled)") // CHECK: child task isCancelled: true
+      return 3
+    }
     let three = await group.next()!
     print("next third: \(three)") // CHECK: next third: 3
 
+    print("added third, unconditionally") // CHECK: added third, unconditionally
+    print("group isCancelled: \(group.isCancelled)") // CHECK: group isCancelled: true
+
     return one + (none ?? 0)
   }