diff --git a/stdlib/2and3/array.pyi b/stdlib/2and3/array.pyi
index 5b9c1256e..1ca55c852 100644
--- a/stdlib/2and3/array.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2and3/array.pyi
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ class array(MutableSequence[_T], Generic[_T]):
         def frombytes(self, __buffer: bytes) -> None: ...
     def fromfile(self, __f: BinaryIO, __n: int) -> None: ...
     def fromlist(self, __list: List[_T]) -> None: ...
-    def fromstring(self, __buffer: bytes) -> None: ...
     def fromunicode(self, __ustr: str) -> None: ...
     def index(self, __v: _T) -> int: ...  # type: ignore  # Overrides Sequence
     def insert(self, __i: int, __v: _T) -> None: ...
@@ -54,10 +53,12 @@ class array(MutableSequence[_T], Generic[_T]):
         def tobytes(self) -> bytes: ...
     def tofile(self, __f: BinaryIO) -> None: ...
     def tolist(self) -> List[_T]: ...
-    def tostring(self) -> bytes: ...
     def tounicode(self) -> str: ...
     if sys.version_info < (3,):
         def write(self, f: BinaryIO) -> None: ...
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 9):
+        def fromstring(self, __buffer: bytes) -> None: ...
+        def tostring(self) -> bytes: ...
 
     def __len__(self) -> int: ...
 
diff --git a/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py39.txt b/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py39.txt
index 2a867afbe..7aa7cc11d 100644
--- a/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py39.txt
+++ b/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py39.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ _dummy_thread
 _thread.ExceptHookArgs
 _thread._ExceptHookArgs
 _weakref.getweakrefcount
-array.array.fromstring
-array.array.tostring
 ast.Bytes.__new__
 ast.Ellipsis.__new__
 ast.ExtSlice.__new__