diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7a1a99f9..7ad35335 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 * Fixed how `mc_cv()`, `initial_split()`, and `validation_split()` use the `prop` argument to first compute the assessment indices, rather than the analysis indices. This is a minor but **breaking change** in some situations; the previous implementation could cause an inconsistency in the sizes of the generated analysis and assessment sets when compared to how `prop` is documented to function (#217, @issactoast).
 
+* Fixed problem with creation of `apparent()` samples (#223).
+
+
 # rsample 0.0.9
 
 * New `rset_reconstruct()`, a developer tool to ease creation of new rset subclasses (#210).
diff --git a/R/apparent.R b/R/apparent.R
index 192a5178..49db121e 100644
--- a/R/apparent.R
+++ b/R/apparent.R
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ apparent <- function(data, ...) {
   class(splits) <- c("rsplit", "apparent_split")
   split_objs <- tibble::tibble(splits = list(splits), id = "Apparent")
 
-  split_objs <-
-    add_class(split_objs,
-              cls = c("apparent", "rset"))
-
-  split_objs
+  new_rset(splits = split_objs$splits,
+           ids = split_objs$id,
+           attrib = NULL,
+           subclass = c("apparent", "rset"))
 }
 
 #' @export