diff --git a/pkg/api/job/warnings.go b/pkg/api/job/warnings.go
index e04a4939be5..1c7ddc8b507 100644
--- a/pkg/api/job/warnings.go
+++ b/pkg/api/job/warnings.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/pod"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/batch"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/core"
-	"k8s.io/utils/pointer"
+	"k8s.io/utils/ptr"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ const (
 func WarningsForJobSpec(ctx context.Context, path *field.Path, spec, oldSpec *batch.JobSpec) []string {
 	var warnings []string
 	if spec.CompletionMode != nil && *spec.CompletionMode == batch.IndexedCompletion {
-		completions := pointer.Int32Deref(spec.Completions, 0)
-		parallelism := pointer.Int32Deref(spec.Parallelism, 0)
+		completions := ptr.Deref(spec.Completions, 0)
+		parallelism := ptr.Deref(spec.Parallelism, 0)
 		if completions > completionsSoftLimit && parallelism > parallelismSoftLimitForUnlimitedCompletions {
 			msg := "In Indexed Jobs with a number of completions higher than 10^5 and a parallelism higher than 10^4, Kubernetes might not be able to track completedIndexes when a big number of indexes fail"
 			warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", path, msg))
diff --git a/pkg/apis/networking/validation/validation.go b/pkg/apis/networking/validation/validation.go
index 1f7df28cee7..7df3b56328d 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/networking/validation/validation.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/networking/validation/validation.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import (
 	apivalidation "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/core/validation"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/networking"
 	netutils "k8s.io/utils/net"
-	utilpointer "k8s.io/utils/pointer"
+	"k8s.io/utils/ptr"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ func validateIngressClassParametersReference(params *networking.IngressClassPara
 		return allErrs
 	}
 
-	scope := utilpointer.StringDeref(params.Scope, "")
+	scope := ptr.Deref(params.Scope, "")
 
 	if !supportedIngressClassParametersReferenceScopes.Has(scope) {
 		allErrs = append(allErrs, field.NotSupported(fldPath.Child("scope"), scope,
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/rest/delete_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/rest/delete_test.go
index 622a1765f54..2aaf2501fe5 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/rest/delete_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/rest/delete_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
 	utilpointer "k8s.io/utils/pointer"
+	"k8s.io/utils/ptr"
 )
 
 type mockStrategy struct {
@@ -295,10 +296,10 @@ func TestBeforeDelete(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Errorf("BeforeDelete() gotGracefulPending = %v, want %v", gotGracefulPending, tt.wantGracefulPending)
 			}
 			if !utilpointer.Int64Equal(tt.args.pod.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds, tt.wantDeletionGracePeriodSeconds) {
-				t.Errorf("metadata.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds = %v, want %v", utilpointer.Int64Deref(tt.args.pod.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds, 0), utilpointer.Int64Deref(tt.wantDeletionGracePeriodSeconds, 0))
+				t.Errorf("metadata.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds = %v, want %v", ptr.Deref(tt.args.pod.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds, 0), ptr.Deref(tt.wantDeletionGracePeriodSeconds, 0))
 			}
 			if !utilpointer.Int64Equal(tt.args.options.GracePeriodSeconds, tt.wantGracePeriodSeconds) {
-				t.Errorf("options.GracePeriodSeconds = %v, want %v", utilpointer.Int64Deref(tt.args.options.GracePeriodSeconds, 0), utilpointer.Int64Deref(tt.wantGracePeriodSeconds, 0))
+				t.Errorf("options.GracePeriodSeconds = %v, want %v", ptr.Deref(tt.args.options.GracePeriodSeconds, 0), ptr.Deref(tt.wantGracePeriodSeconds, 0))
 			}
 		})
 	}