Apple Again Rumored to Announce iOS 26 Next Month

It looks similar Apple truly volition beryllium jumping to iOS 26 this year.


Bloomberg's Mark Gurman was archetypal to study that Apple was readying to commencement tying the mentation numbers of its bundle platforms to merchandise years. For example, Gurman expects Apple to denote iOS 26 astatine WWDC adjacent month, alternatively of iOS 19.

The rumor has since been corroborated by AppleInsider's Marko Zivkovic.

"I tin independently corroborate that Apple's '26' mentation branding is real," helium said, successful a station shared connected X connected Wednesday.

Yes, iOS 26, not iOS 25. Even though iOS 26 is apt to beryllium released successful September 2025, it would beryllium the existent mentation for the bulk of 2026. Gurman said Apple volition beryllium utilizing a year-ahead naming convention, akin to car makers. For example, the 2025 Honda Civic began arriving to dealerships successful precocious 2024, adjacent though it has 2025 branding.

This naming normal is expected to widen to each of Apple's large operating systems, including macOS. Zivkovic said that interior versions of macOS tested this week were inactive labeled macOS 16 successful immoderate places, but macOS 26 successful others.

The names of Apple's adjacent operating systems, according to Gurman:

• iOS 26


• iPadOS 26


• macOS 26


• watchOS 26


• tvOS 26


• visionOS 26

The names that were expected earlier this rumor:

• iOS 19


• iPadOS 19


• macOS 16


• watchOS 12


• tvOS 19


• visionOS 3

Apple should denote each of the bundle updates during its WWDC 2025 keynote, which begins Monday, June 9 astatine 10 a.m. Pacific Time.
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