Apple is rumored to launch iOS 26, not iOS 19 at WWDC 2025

Evidently Apple is giving its operating systems a significant overhaul this year, and never simply on the visible and value fronts. It was anticipated that the subsequent main variations of iOS and iPadOS (set to be introduced at WWDC 2025 in a number of weeks) could be adopted by the quantity 19, Macs would transfer onto macOS 15 and so forth. That might proceed the numbering system Apple has used for a few years.

That might be about to vary, in response to Bloomberg. The subsequent variations of the working methods could also be earmarked by the 12 months, in response to the publication’s sources. Which means we might quickly see the debut of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26.

The numbers would align with the 12 months after every main OS launch, since Apple usually rolls out the primary public variations of these every fall. So the variations of iOS, iPadOS and so forth that arrive this September or October could also be named after 2026.

We’ll know for certain whether or not this shift is going on on June 9, when the keynote of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference takes place. It is extensively anticipated that Apple can be giving its working methods a significant person interface overhaul to ship a extra unified expertise throughout numerous gadgets.

It looks as if a sensible transfer to align the branding of the entire numerous working methods. The software program powering Apple Watch gadgets is at the moment as much as watchOS 11. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is working visionOS 2. It is a little bit messy as is. Making use of the identical numbering to the entire working methods and aligning it with the discharge 12 months ought to make issues simpler for everybody to maintain up with.