So your OS names are going to seem to leap forward to 26 soon. Photo: Rajesh Pandey/Cult of Mac Apple might make a major change to the naming convention for all its operating systems this year, ...

The first Mac software was called System 1 and it was released on January 24, 1984, and there have been 30 major updates since. Apple rebranded to Mac OS with the release of mac OS 8 on July 26, 1997.

Shakespeare once asked his audience "what's in a name?" but somehow it's up to me to continue that line of thinking with "what's in a number?" as I try to figure out Apple's new OS naming system, just ...

As part of an overhaul to its operating systems, Apple is making one of the most significant changes ever to its OS branding, the company announced at its WWDC 25 developer's conference. Starting in ...

Apple Releasing iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and macOS 26 Soon Your email has been sent Apple aligns OS version numbers across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS ...

Apple’s macOS operating system has changed a lot over the last 25 years, with new features and designs coming and going as the decades have passed. Even the name has been adjusted, starting out as Mac ...

WWDC is less than two weeks away, and it’s shaping up to be a big show. Along with interface updates to all of its operating systems, Apple is also expected to formalize the version numbering across ...

They’re apparently going to align with years. They’re apparently going to align with years. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two ...

As Apple Intelligence gets closer to public availability, the first release candidates of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, visionOS 2.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 are now available. At the time of ...