diff --git a/wgpu/examples/capture/main.rs b/wgpu/examples/capture/main.rs
index f1942704e5..c4fabdf0a2 100644
--- a/wgpu/examples/capture/main.rs
+++ b/wgpu/examples/capture/main.rs
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ async fn run() {
         }
         png_writer.finish().unwrap();
 
+        // With the current interface, we have to make sure all mapped views are
+        // dropped before we unmap the buffer.
+        drop(padded_buffer);
+
         output_buffer.unmap();
     }
 }
diff --git a/wgpu/examples/hello-compute/main.rs b/wgpu/examples/hello-compute/main.rs
index 1166c74306..2eb5fec235 100644
--- a/wgpu/examples/hello-compute/main.rs
+++ b/wgpu/examples/hello-compute/main.rs
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@ async fn execute_gpu(numbers: Vec<u32>) -> Vec<u32> {
             .chunks_exact(4)
             .map(|b| u32::from_ne_bytes(b.try_into().unwrap()))
             .collect();
+
+        // With the current interface, we have to make sure all mapped views are
+        // dropped before we unmap the buffer.
+        drop(data);
         staging_buffer.unmap();
+
         result
     } else {
         panic!("failed to run compute on gpu!")