System Preferences GONE from under the Apple Ventura

What happened to System Preferences? I now have System Settings... under the Apple icon. Does this replace all of System Preferences? This may have happened with the update from Monterey to Ventura.

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Posted on Nov 11, 2022 12:19 PM

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dialabrain

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Posted on Nov 11, 2022 12:21 PM

Yes. System Preferences is now System Settings.

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Nov 11, 2022 12:21 PM in response to ejbpesca

Yes. System Preferences is now System Settings.

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etresoft

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Nov 11, 2022 12:21 PM in response to ejbpesca

Yep

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