diff --git a/docs/api/deprecated.md b/docs/api/deprecated.md
index 4511f4b3a7..d09c1af405 100644
--- a/docs/api/deprecated.md
+++ b/docs/api/deprecated.md
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@
 
    pp.filter_genes_dispersion
    pp.normalize_per_cell
+   pp.subsample
 ```
diff --git a/docs/api/preprocessing.md b/docs/api/preprocessing.md
index 4b17567a6b..36e732a6dc 100644
--- a/docs/api/preprocessing.md
+++ b/docs/api/preprocessing.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ For visual quality control, see {func}`~scanpy.pl.highest_expr_genes` and
    pp.normalize_total
    pp.regress_out
    pp.scale
-   pp.subsample
+   pp.sample
    pp.downsample_counts
 ```