diff --git a/releasenotes.md b/releasenotes.md
index e1f9b46b1..34b14b6f9 100644
--- a/releasenotes.md
+++ b/releasenotes.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 - Correctly detect multiple overloads of the same type.
 - ABI bug on x64 Linux / MacOS when passing a union containing a struct of 3 floats. #2087 
 - Bug with slice acces as inline struct member #2088.
+- `@if` now does implicit conversion to bool like `$if`. #2086
 
 ### Stdlib changes
 - Hash functions for integer vectors and arrays.
diff --git a/src/compiler/sema_decls.c b/src/compiler/sema_decls.c
index f4d713e29..24f7582a8 100755
--- a/src/compiler/sema_decls.c
+++ b/src/compiler/sema_decls.c
@@ -3126,7 +3126,7 @@ static bool sema_analyse_attribute(SemaContext *context, ResolvedAttrData *attr_
 		case ATTRIBUTE_IF:
 			if (!expr) RETURN_SEMA_ERROR(attr, "'@if' requires a boolean argument.");
 			if (!sema_analyse_expr(context, expr)) return false;
-			if (expr->type->canonical != type_bool || !sema_cast_const(expr))
+			if (!cast_explicit_silent(context, expr, type_bool) || !sema_cast_const(expr))
 			{
 				RETURN_SEMA_ERROR(expr, "Expected a boolean compile time constant value.");
 			}
diff --git a/test/test_suite/compile_time/ct_if_bool_conversion_2086.c3 b/test/test_suite/compile_time/ct_if_bool_conversion_2086.c3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..64d415280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_suite/compile_time/ct_if_bool_conversion_2086.c3
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+module test;
+
+fn void main()
+{
+    int $a = 0;
+    $if $a:
+    $endif;
+    int a @if(!$a);
+    int a @if($a);
+    int a @if((bool)$a);
+}
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