WWDC will be closed in June 2025 and is rumored to be a platform, where Apple iOS 19 can unveil its latest OS updates for iPhone, as well as with more firmware repetitions for your equipment. However, a recent report states that iOS 19 cannot come at all. While the company will actually preview the upcoming iOS firmware, it is said that it is not known as iOS 19 at all. The report states that its naming conference (or naming) for Apple iOS will change the strategy.
Apple to preview iOS 26 instead of iOS 19
It has been known for some time that Apple may make some major changes this year when it speaks of its operating system. But when it was first considered to be applied to the core design or functionality, the change could only begin with naming. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that cupertino-based tech may be veterans Get away from a repetition-based strategy When it comes to the naming of its OS update to one year-based.
This potentially means that the OS update will be allegedly known by the year that is introduced instead of version numbers, the journalist said, citing anonymous sources familiar with the schemes. Therefore, iOS 19 will be called iOS 26, iPados 19 will be iPados 26, Macos 16 MACOS can be 26, and so on further. The company is reported to use the upcoming year instead of the present year, naming its firmware versions.
The following replacement of Apple’s update is likely to preview at WWDC 2025:
platform | Required name (on the basis of previous trend) | Fantasy future name |
---|---|---|
iPhone | iOS 19 | iOS 26 |
Mac | MacoS 16 | MacoS 26 |
ipad | iPados 19 | iPados 26 |
Apple Watch | Watches 12 | Watches 26 |
Apple TV | Tvos 19 | TVOS 26 |
Apple Vision Pro | Visionos 3 | Visionos 26 |
In particular, the OS updates of Apple are accompanied by different versions as they did not launch at the same time. Thus, iOS 18 is the latest update to iPhone while MACOS 15 ship with all MAC equipment. Meanwhile, the recently introduced Apple Vision Pro Visionos 2 runs on the firmware. Thus, Apple is asked to change the “continuity for its branding” and to get rid of a naming approach that can alike customers and developers.
This change, with all characteristics, is expected to be previewed in WWDC 2025 Keenot on 9 June.
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