diff --git a/doc/changes/devel/12326.other.rst b/doc/changes/devel/12326.other.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Updated the text in the preprocessing tutorial to use :class:`mne.io.Raw.pick()` instead of the legacy :class:`mne.io.Raw.pick_types()`, by :newcontrib:`btkcodedev`.
diff --git a/doc/changes/names.inc b/doc/changes/names.inc
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--- a/doc/changes/names.inc
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@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
 
 .. _Bruno Nicenboim: https://bnicenboim.github.io
 
+.. _btkcodedev: https://github.com/btkcodedev
+
 .. _buildqa: https://github.com/buildqa
 
 .. _Carlos de la Torre-Ortiz: https://ctorre.me
diff --git a/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py b/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
index daac97976a5..06e9ffd6e53 100644
--- a/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
+++ b/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
@@ -238,8 +238,9 @@
     fig.suptitle(title, size="xx-large", weight="bold")
 
 # %%
-# Note that we used the ``exclude=[]`` trick in the call to
-# :meth:`~mne.io.Raw.pick_types` to make sure the bad channels were not
+# Note that the method :meth:`~mne.io.Raw.pick()` default
+# arguments includes ``exclude=()`` which ensures that bad
+# channels are not
 # automatically dropped from the selection. Here is the corresponding example
 # with the interpolated gradiometer channel; since there are more channels
 # we'll use a more transparent gray color this time: