diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/core/basesnippets.py b/src/spikeinterface/core/basesnippets.py
index 09c4416c2d..6360ecaa45 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/core/basesnippets.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/core/basesnippets.py
@@ -201,18 +201,6 @@ def select_channels(self, channel_ids: list | np.array | tuple) -> "BaseSnippets
 
         return ChannelSliceSnippets(self, channel_ids)
 
-    def _channel_slice(self, channel_ids, renamed_channel_ids=None):
-        from .channelslice import ChannelSliceSnippets
-        import warnings
-
-        warnings.warn(
-            "Snippets.channel_slice will be removed in version 0.103, use `select_channels` or `rename_channels` instead.",
-            DeprecationWarning,
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
-        sub_recording = ChannelSliceSnippets(self, channel_ids, renamed_channel_ids=renamed_channel_ids)
-        return sub_recording
-
     def _remove_channels(self, remove_channel_ids):
         from .channelslice import ChannelSliceSnippets
 
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/core/channelslice.py b/src/spikeinterface/core/channelslice.py
index 8a4f29e86c..bc5143fa13 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/core/channelslice.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/core/channelslice.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class ChannelSliceSnippets(BaseSnippets):
     """
     Class to slice a Snippets object based on channel_ids.
 
-    Do not use this class directly but use `snippets.channel_slice(...)`
+    Do not use this class directly but use `snippets.select_channels(...)`
 
     """
 
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/preprocessing/tests/test_detect_bad_channels.py b/src/spikeinterface/preprocessing/tests/test_detect_bad_channels.py
index 31ea5f5523..836a9adefb 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/preprocessing/tests/test_detect_bad_channels.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/preprocessing/tests/test_detect_bad_channels.py
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ def test_detect_bad_channels_ibl(num_channels):
 
     # Test on randomly sorted channels
     rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=None)
-    recording_scrambled = recording.channel_slice(
+    recording_scrambled = recording.select_channels(
         rng.choice(recording.channel_ids, len(recording.channel_ids), replace=False)
     )
     bad_channel_ids_scrambled, bad_channel_label_scrambled = detect_bad_channels(
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_docker_containers.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_docker_containers.py
index a3841a9d3e..6204d57ef2 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_docker_containers.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_docker_containers.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def test_combinato(run_kwargs, create_cache_folder):
     cache_folder = create_cache_folder
     rec = run_kwargs["recording"]
     channels = rec.get_channel_ids()[0:1]
-    rec_one_channel = rec.channel_slice(channels)
+    rec_one_channel = rec.select_channels(channels)
     run_kwargs["recording"] = rec_one_channel
     sorting = ss.run_sorter(sorter_name="combinato", folder=cache_folder / "combinato", **run_kwargs)
     print(sorting)
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_singularity_containers.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_singularity_containers.py
index 61b928b6f7..a26ecc2d11 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_singularity_containers.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/tests/test_singularity_containers.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def test_combinato(run_kwargs, create_cache_folder):
     clean_singularity_cache()
     rec = run_kwargs["recording"]
     channels = rec.get_channel_ids()[0:1]
-    rec_one_channel = rec.channel_slice(channels)
+    rec_one_channel = rec.select_channels(channels)
     run_kwargs["recording"] = rec_one_channel
     sorting = ss.run_sorter(sorter_name="combinato", folder=cache_folder / "combinato", **run_kwargs)
     print(sorting)