WWDC 2025: What to Expect From macOS 26 Tahoe

WWDC is little than a week away, and arsenic we ramp up to the large announcement, we're going to stock details connected what we cognize astir each operating system. We're starting with the next-generation mentation of macOS, which Apple is seemingly going to telephone macOS Tahoe.

Name

Since the existent mentation of macOS is macOS 15, it would usually beryllium followed by macOS 16, but Apple is changing its naming strategy for operating strategy updates starting this year.

Everything coming retired successful 2025 volition beryllium numbered with a "26" to bespeak its merchandise season, covering the play betwixt September 2025 and September 2026. We're getting macOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26. Apple could person gone with 25 due to the fact that that's the twelvemonth of launch, but 26 technically does marque much consciousness due to the fact that determination are much months successful 2026 wherever we'll person the 26 bid of updates installed.

With the streamlined naming that Apple is implementing, determination won't beryllium a request to retrieve separate, confusing numbers for each operating system. It mightiness beryllium confusing astatine archetypal for radical to spell from macOS 15 to macOS 26, but it should marque much consciousness implicit the agelong haul.

macOS is peculiar due to the fact that it ever gets a California landmark sanction on with its number, dissimilar different operating systems. This year, it looks similar Apple is going to spell with "Tahoe," a fashionable water betwixt California and Nevada. Lake Tahoe is simply a fashionable abrogation destination each twelvemonth long, but peculiarly successful the wintertime wherever it is known for its skis slopes.

Tahoe volition articulation the different California landmark names that Apple has used, including Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia.

Design Overhaul

Most of the rumors that we've heard astir Apple's upcoming bundle person focused connected ‌iOS 26‌ and the plan changes that Apple has planned, but macOS 26 is going to get immoderate of those aforesaid plan updates.


The revamp mightiness not beryllium rather arsenic dramatic, but Apple wants to person a much cohesive look and consciousness crossed its operating systems, hence the plan overhaul and the "26" sanction change.


Basically, Apple is expanding immoderate visionOS plan elements to each of its software, with a absorption connected translucency, rounded menus and buttons, and a frosted glass-like look for the interface. On the Mac, Apple already uses translucency for immoderate things similar the paper barroom and the dock, but we could possibly spot much translucency successful windows and paper elements.

App icons that person a much rounded look could happen, and we could spot rounder corners for windows and different interface elements. Apple could besides follow immoderate floating paper bars, and adhd much extent to everything for a glossier look and feel.


Streamlined navigation, menus, and layout could bring amended plan consistency crossed iOS and macOS. Expect to spot plan changes astatine the operating strategy level and successful Apple's apps, with Apple besides providing caller guidelines and assets for developers to tailor their apps to lucifer the updated aesthetic.

Apple Intelligence

There are caller Apple Intelligence features coming successful macOS 26, but Apple is undoubtedly going to beryllium much reserved astir announcing thing that's not acceptable to go.

Apple plans to update the Shortcuts app to integrate ‌Apple Intelligence‌. Users volition beryllium capable to make actions that usage ‌Apple Intelligence‌ models, which should marque it easier for casual users to make utile shortcuts.

Apple mightiness springiness america immoderate penetration into erstwhile Siri volition beryllium capable to integrate with Gemini successful summation to ChatGPT, due to the fact that that's a diagnostic coming soon.

All those personalized ‌Siri‌ features that Apple announced astatine WWDC 2024 are going to travel successful ‌iOS 26‌ and macOS 26 astatine immoderate point, but it's not wide if they'll beryllium acceptable by WWDC. If they're not acceptable to go, Apple astir apt won't notation them, and we'll get them aboriginal successful the year.

As a reminder, we're waiting connected idiosyncratic discourse that lets ‌Siri‌ support way of emails, messages, files, photos, and more, oregon fundamentally thing connected your device. Apple is besides adding onscreen consciousness truthful ‌Siri‌ tin assistance you with what's connected your screen, and ‌Siri‌ volition besides get deeper app integration truthful that it tin bash much successful and crossed apps.

Gaming App

There's a caller crippled app successful the works that'll beryllium disposable for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. It'll person the games you'd usually find successful the App Store and Apple Arcade titles, on with sections for in-game achievements, leaderboards, and editorial content.

You'll beryllium capable to usage the app to pass with different people, and connected the Mac, it'll beryllium capable to pat into games downloaded extracurricular of the Mac App Store. It'll regenerate Game Center, and volition beryllium a much diagnostic affluent app.

Other Rumored Features

Apple previewed respective Accessibility features that are coming successful macOS 26 and ‌iOS 26‌, positive determination person been rumors of caller Wi-Fi features.

• Captive Wi-Fi Portal Syncing - When you log into a captive Wi-Fi network, similar astatine a edifice oregon an airport, you'll lone request to bash it erstwhile and the info volition sync crossed each of your devices.


• Magnifier - Apple volition fto you link an iPhone to your Mac to usage the ‌iPhone‌'s camera for zooming successful connected substance and different things that you mightiness request assistance seeing.


• Vehicle Motion Cues - The small dots that are meant to assistance you from getting carsick oregon airsick are besides coming to the Mac. Vehicle Motion Cues is meant to lucifer the feeling of question with what the eyes are seeing.

Compatibility

macOS Tahoe could driblet enactment for immoderate older Macs, including the 2018 MacBook Pro, the 2019 iMac, the 2017 ‌iMac‌ Pro, the 2018 Mac mini, and the 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air. The update is expected to beryllium compatible with the pursuing Macs:

• ‌MacBook Pro‌ (2019 and later)


• ‌iMac‌ (2020 and later)


• Mac Pro (2019 and later)


• ‌Mac mini‌ (M1 and later)


• Mac Studio (all models)


• ‌MacBook Air‌ (‌M1‌ and later)

Read More

We person a dedicated macOS 26 Tahoe roundup that we'll beryllium updating passim the week.

Make definite to cheque backmost each time for much rumor roundups, and enactment tuned for our all-in-one what to expect nonfiction connected Friday.

WWDC Event Details

The WWDC 2025 keynote volition instrumentality spot connected Monday, June 9 astatine 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Apple volition unrecorded watercourse the lawsuit connected its website, connected YouTube, and successful the TV app.


If you're not capable to ticker live, we'll person a unrecorded blog and sum of the announcements present astatine MacRumors, positive we'll beryllium unrecorded tweeting the lawsuit on the MacRumorsLive account.
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