According to the change system for the software naming system: iOS 26, not iOS 19, is the following

apple You may be about to change a major change in the way the company calls its software updates – a method that may seem familiar to anyone familiar with Windows 95 or ’57 Chevy. I mentioned Bloomberg Wednesday that Apple renames their operating systems using the last two numbers next year. So the current iOS 18 will be replaced by iOS 26, not iOS 19, when it reaches the fall of 2025.

Apple actor did not immediately respond to the comment.

Bloomberg cited unidentified sources that say additional updates will take the names of iPados 26, MacOS 26, Watchos 26, TVOS 26 and Visionos 26. According to sources, hope is the unification of the Apple brand and the removal of confusion. Bloomberg notes that the current operating systems, including iOS 18, Watchos 12, MacOS 15 and VisionOS 2, are used as different numbers because they did not appear for the first time at the same time.

The company is expected to announce the change of the name and the facades of the most coherent users across the developer conference around the world on June 9.

It is worth noting that the Bloomberg story did not mention the renames of iPhone. The current iPhone is the iPhone 16, which was released in February. The iPhone 17 in September is expected, but there is no word to rename it to iPhone 26 instead of iPhone 17.

The new numbering system will reflect the last two numbers of next year, 2026, instead of the current year of 2025, similar to new cars. Samsung and Microsoft used general label systems.