diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4e3f0f1..3443bc9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Take `self` rather than `&mut self` for `UniqueMmioPointer::split`. The old behaviour can be
+  achieved by calling `reborrow` first.
+- Take `self` rather than `&self` for `SharedMmioPointer::split`. `SharedMmioPointer` is `Copy` so
+  this should make no difference in most cases.
+
 ### Improvements
 
 - Added `modify` and `modify_mut` methods to `UniqueMmioPointer<ReadWrite<T>>` and
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 02f7bef..e37335c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ impl<'a, T> UniqueMmioPointer<'a, [T]> {
 
 impl<'a, T, const LEN: usize> UniqueMmioPointer<'a, [T; LEN]> {
     /// Splits a `UniqueMmioPointer` to an array into an array of `UniqueMmioPointer`s.
-    pub fn split(&mut self) -> [UniqueMmioPointer<'_, T>; LEN] {
+    pub fn split(mut self) -> [UniqueMmioPointer<'a, T>; LEN] {
         array::from_fn(|i| {
             UniqueMmioPointer(SharedMmioPointer {
                 // SAFETY: self.regs is always unique and valid for MMIO access. We make sure the
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ impl<'a, T> SharedMmioPointer<'a, [T]> {
 
 impl<'a, T, const LEN: usize> SharedMmioPointer<'a, [T; LEN]> {
     /// Splits a `SharedMmioPointer` to an array into an array of `SharedMmioPointer`s.
-    pub fn split(&self) -> [SharedMmioPointer<'a, T>; LEN] {
+    pub fn split(self) -> [SharedMmioPointer<'a, T>; LEN] {
         array::from_fn(|i| SharedMmioPointer {
             // SAFETY: self.regs is always unique and valid for MMIO access. We make sure the
             // pointers we split it into don't overlap, so the same applies to each of them.
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut foo = [ReadWrite(1), ReadWrite(2), ReadWrite(3)];
         let mut owned = UniqueMmioPointer::from(&mut foo);
 
-        let mut parts = owned.split();
+        let mut parts = owned.reborrow().split();
         assert_eq!(parts[0].read(), 1);
         assert_eq!(parts[1].read(), 2);
         assert_eq!(owned.split()[2].read(), 3);