Apple might actually deliver my only ‘iOS 19’ feature request

I love Mark Gurman’s scoop that Apple plans to introduce iOS 26, not iOS 19, alongside version 26 of macOS, visionOS, watchOS, and tvOS. It’s a different flavor of the same solution I thought about a few months ago but thought might be too much of a reach to share. The problem is obvious: version numbers are not. Case in point: iOS 18 iPadOS 18 tvOS 18 watchOS… not kidding. I’d need to look this up to be certain. 11, right? Series version plus one? What a formula. macOS… same deal. Sequoia, though, right? visionOS 2 (nailed another one!) Evidently, I’m capable of remembering iOS as well as which systems use the iOS version number. Apple’s rumored system of assigning 26 to each system will work well for me. I had a similar idea but never shared it because it made more sense for next year. My thought was that Apple should switch all systems to the iOS number next year, when iOS 20 would have been the new version. Why not this year? Twenty sounds cooler and less random than nin ... Read full article.