Apple Reportedly Says ‘Screw It’ and Jumps From iOS 19 to iOS 26

Apple iPhone fans may soon feel like their parents, who had to watch their baby grow up way too fast. The latest reports suggest the tech giant won’t stick to its old naming convention. The expected iOS 19 will instead be called iOS 26 to line up with the year following now. All your Apple products, from your iPad to your Mac to your Apple Watch, will all sport the new nomenclature and a blanket redesign. If all goes according to plan, next year’s update will be named iOS 27, and so on. This new naming convention means that instead of iPadOS 19, we’ll instead have iPadOS 26. Rather than macOS 16, get ready for macOS 26. The Apple Vision Pro will take an enormous leap from visionOS 2 to visionOS 26. The reported name change stems from Bloomberg tech journalist Mark Gurman’s usual slate of anonymous sources. Apple’s big plan is to try and unify its user interface across all platforms. We should hear Apple try to explain its reasoning at WWDC 2025 set for June 9. Gurman’s latest reports ... Read full article.