diff --git a/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier0/_array_operators.py b/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier0/_array_operators.py
index cb7d95b3..364e2bce 100644
--- a/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier0/_array_operators.py
+++ b/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier0/_array_operators.py
@@ -441,7 +441,8 @@ def _repr_html_(self):
             imshow(self,
                    labels=labels,
                    continue_drawing=True,
-                   colorbar=not labels)
+                   colorbar=not labels,
+                   mute_warning=True)
             image = self._png_to_html(self._plt_to_png())
         else:
             return "<pre>cle.array(" + str(np.asarray(self)) + ", dtype=" + str(self.dtype) + ")</pre>"
diff --git a/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier9/_imshow.py b/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier9/_imshow.py
index 94c3927f..ee3dec98 100644
--- a/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier9/_imshow.py
+++ b/pyclesperanto_prototype/_tier9/_imshow.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from .._tier0 import Image, plugin_function
 
 @plugin_function
-def imshow(image : Image, title : str = None, labels : bool = False, min_display_intensity : float = None, max_display_intensity : float = None, color_map = None, plot = None, colorbar:bool = False, colormap = None, alpha:float = None, continue_drawing:bool = False):
+def imshow(image : Image, title : str = None, labels : bool = False, min_display_intensity : float = None, max_display_intensity : float = None, color_map = None, plot = None, colorbar:bool = False, colormap = None, alpha:float = None, continue_drawing:bool = False, mute_warning:bool=False):
     """Visualize an image, e.g. in Jupyter notebooks.
 
     Parameters
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ def imshow(image : Image, title : str = None, labels : bool = False, min_display
     continue_drawing: float
         True: the next shown image can be visualized on top of the current one, e.g. with alpha = 0.5
     """
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn("cle.imshow is deprecated, use stackview.imshow instead.")
+    if not mute_warning:
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn("cle.imshow is deprecated, use stackview.imshow instead.")
     import numpy as np
     from .._tier0 import pull
     from .._tier1 import maximum_z_projection