diff --git a/src/__test__/components/data-management/__snapshots__/DownloadDataButton.test.jsx.snap b/src/__test__/components/data-management/__snapshots__/DownloadDataButton.test.jsx.snap
index 7a6bbc51d6..b9eae2e5a7 100644
--- a/src/__test__/components/data-management/__snapshots__/DownloadDataButton.test.jsx.snap
+++ b/src/__test__/components/data-management/__snapshots__/DownloadDataButton.test.jsx.snap
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ exports[`DownloadDataButton Downloads processed matrix properly 1`] = `
   [
     "testae48e318dab9a1bd0bexperiment-0",
     {
+      "embeddingMethod": "umap",
       "name": "DownloadAnnotSeuratObject",
     },
     [Function],
diff --git a/src/utils/extraActionCreators/downloadProcessedMatrix.js b/src/utils/extraActionCreators/downloadProcessedMatrix.js
index 051c126340..98a61400e4 100644
--- a/src/utils/extraActionCreators/downloadProcessedMatrix.js
+++ b/src/utils/extraActionCreators/downloadProcessedMatrix.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const downloadProcessedMatrix = (experimentId) => async (dispatch, getState) =>
     // the embeddingETag is added by the API to this body
     const body = {
       name: taskName,
+      embeddingMethod,
     };
 
     const timeout = getTimeoutForWorkerTask(getState(), taskName);