diff --git a/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.cy.js b/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.cy.js
index 8d617bc9c..703d79f41 100644
--- a/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.cy.js
+++ b/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.cy.js
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import _ from 'lodash';
 
 const GROUP_NAME = 'foobar';
 const ROOT = 'div[id="group-systems-table"]';
-const TABLE_HEADERS = ['Name', 'Tags', 'OS', 'Update methods', 'Last seen'];
+const TABLE_HEADERS = ['Name', 'Tags', 'OS', 'Update method', 'Last seen'];
 const SORTABLE_HEADERS = ['Name', 'OS', 'Last seen'];
 const DEFAULT_ROW_COUNT = 50;
 
diff --git a/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.js b/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.js
index d83d0362c..942aece8c 100644
--- a/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.js
+++ b/src/components/GroupSystems/GroupSystems.js
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ const prepareColumns = (initialColumns) => {
     // hides the "groups" column
     const columns = initialColumns.filter(({ key }) => key !== 'groups');
 
-    // additionally insert the "update methods" column
+    // additionally insert the "update method" column
     columns.splice(columns.length - 1 /* must be penultimate */, 0, {
         key: 'update_method',
-        title: 'Update methods',
+        title: 'Update method',
         sortKey: 'update_method',
         transforms: [fitContent],
         renderFunc: (value, hostId, systemData) =>
diff --git a/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.cy.js b/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.cy.js
index 9fad84116..f585a2f6c 100644
--- a/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.cy.js
+++ b/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.cy.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import {
 import { getStore } from '../../../store';
 import AddSystemsToGroupModal from './AddSystemsToGroupModal';
 
-const TABLE_HEADERS = ['Name', 'Group', 'Tags', 'Update methods', 'OS', 'Last seen'];
+const TABLE_HEADERS = ['Name', 'Group', 'Tags', 'Update method', 'OS', 'Last seen'];
 
 const ALERT = '[data-ouia-component-type="PF4/Alert"]';
 
diff --git a/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.js b/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.js
index 4a70f424e..10dbafac0 100644
--- a/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.js
+++ b/src/components/InventoryGroups/Modals/AddSystemsToGroupModal.js
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import ConfirmSystemsAddModal from './ConfirmSystemsAddModal';
 export const prepareColumns = (initialColumns) => {
     const columns = initialColumns;
 
-    // additionally insert the "update methods" column
+    // additionally insert the "update method" column
     columns.splice(columns.length - 2 /* must be the 3rd col from the end */, 0, {
         key: 'update_method',
-        title: 'Update methods',
+        title: 'Update method',
         sortKey: 'update_method',
         transforms: [fitContent],
         renderFunc: (value, hostId, systemData) =>