diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e5e06f7c..6ad3f4f2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: SeuratObject
 Type: Package
 Title: Data Structures for Single Cell Data
-Version: 5.0.1.9007
+Version: 5.0.1.9008
 Authors@R: c(
   person(given = 'Paul', family = 'Hoffman', email = 'hoff0792@alumni.umn.edu', role = 'aut', comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0002-7693-8957')),
   person(given = 'Rahul', family = 'Satija', email = 'seurat@nygenome.org', role = c('aut', 'cre'), comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0001-9448-8833')),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index deed03bc..6943faed 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Require R 4.1 (#180)
 - Fix errors in `UpdateSeuratObject` (@ddiez, #182)
 - Fix bug in `PolyVtx` (#194)
+- Fix bug in feature-level subsetting (#200)
 
 # SeuratObject 5.0.1
 
diff --git a/R/assay5.R b/R/assay5.R
index 3f54cf6b..f5652219 100644
--- a/R/assay5.R
+++ b/R/assay5.R
@@ -2411,6 +2411,12 @@ subset.StdAssay <- function(
   for (lyr in setdiff(x = layers.all, y = layers)) {
     LayerData(object = x, layer = lyr) <- NULL
   }
+  # Subset feature-level metadata
+  mfeatures <- MatchCells(
+    new = Features(x = x, layer = NA),
+    orig = features,
+    ordered = TRUE
+  )
   # Perform the subsets
   for (l in layers) {
     lcells <- MatchCells(
@@ -2442,12 +2448,6 @@ subset.StdAssay <- function(
   for (i in c('cells', 'features')) {
     slot(object = x, name = i) <- droplevels(x = slot(object = x, name = i))
   }
-  # Subset feature-level metadata
-  mfeatures <- MatchCells(
-    new = Features(x = x, layer = NA),
-    orig = features,
-    ordered = TRUE
-  )
   slot(object = x, name = 'meta.data') <- slot(
     object = x,
     name = 'meta.data'