diff --git a/lib/components/term.js b/lib/components/term.js
index 94d558c0..44a36276 100644
--- a/lib/components/term.js
+++ b/lib/components/term.js
@@ -96,7 +96,14 @@ export default class Term extends PureComponent {
 
   getTermDocument() {
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-    console.error('unimplemented');
+    console.warn(
+      'The underlying terminal engine of Hyper no longer ' +
+        'uses iframes with individual `document` objects for each ' +
+        'terminal instance. This method call is retained for ' +
+        "backwards compatibility reasons. It's ok to attach direclty" +
+        'to the `document` object of the main `window`.'
+    );
+    return document;
   }
 
   onWindowResize() {