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WWDC 2025 Preview: Apple's iOS 26 Design Overhaul, macOS Tahoe, and Much More

Apple please. Please just fix your apps. E.g.
Photos, after acquisition of Photomator, it should be able to start with better Raw support (Fuji support is lackluster), decent keyword support, a 5-star system, and some decent merging photo magic (ie making HDR and panoramas and put some of your AI to use instead of gimmicky emoji stuff), and support for fujifilm film simulations (can always dream). And for the love of god, after you made a photo album, let me make it a shareable album after the fact.
 
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Sami13496 said:
Why does macOS have a name (Tahoe, Sequoia, …) but iOS and the others don’t?

Why are some Apple products called Apple Something while others are iSomething?

Why are iPhone models numbered (16, 17, …) but iPads, Macs, and other products aren’t?

I can’t stand this inconsistency. :eek:
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OTOH, Apple has consistently named those products like that.
 
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No update for the 2019 iMac? Bit surprising but not too worried as I’m still on Big Sur - runs flawlessly

Got a new iPad A16 and that came with iOS 18– the Photos revamp is horrible. So glad I haven’t updated my phone from 17.
 
Billy_Bob said:
As for numbering/naming, is it finally time for Apple to start treating the different models of the iPhone in the same manner that it treats different models of MacBook or iPad? We don't get a MacBook Air 25 followed by a MacBook Air 26; we get a MacBook Air (13-inch, mid-2025) and then a MacBook Air (13-inch, late 2026).

It's already awkward enough, for instance, that an iPhone 15 can't run iOS 15, but was shipped with iOS 17 and can run iOS 18 and the next-released iOS. It would simplify matters immensely if Apple could train consumers to start thinking of iPhone models in the same way they think of Mac/iPad models, where a particular product line improves year-over-year but isn't renamed every time.

Although MacRumors likely has a disproportionately high percentage of iPhone users who upgrade annually, sales figures show that most consumers upgrade every 2-3 years, with older users often going 3-5 years between upgrades. So the mere presence of higher-number iPhones doesn't seem to be a major prod for most consumers to upgrade. What matters is their relationship with the cellphone carrier, or their perceived need for a particular new feature. That wouldn't change if the number dropped away, and the date became just a fact about that particular release -- as is already the case for Apple's desktop, laptop, and tablet computers.
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I remember Windows touting year numbers, such as Windows 2000, then shifted to Windows 10 , now it is Windows 11… is Apple going to follow…i.e. Mac OS 26, followed by MacOS 20? In a few years time?
 
TVreporter said:
You do know automakers have done this for decades.
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I think the difference is, auto makers Don’t send refresh updates in the year it was made and the year after, and after that. Best if the date was the date it was released, for the most intuitive and obvious option. Something Apple used to be known for sticking to.

Makes much more sense from a marketing perspective for them to date it for the year was introduced so that within 6 to 12 months, the new calendar ratchets and all of a sudden the old software seems old and makes the new software dated for that year seem more attractive and new.
 
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Tozovac said:
Ha I hope there’s zero translucency. For some of us it’s a completely unnecessary gimmick that acrually just gets in the way. My eyes constantly try to “strengthen” or “put into better focus” items that are blurred out or made to look as if it’s in the background. There’s a reason we don’t use translucent paper on our desks. I need accessibility options to undo Apple’s gimmick.
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Fair point, to each his own right?
 
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They should create an Accessibility feature that configures the phone for those who are sensitive to PWM and temporal dithering. Maybe colors are not as accurate in that mode. Maybe white balance is off. And that is OK.

Otherwise, as has become the norm, all Apple events are one big yawn for me. I'm more looking forward to when TCL will start selling NXTPAPER phones unlocked in the US.
 
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MacOS Tahoe: because it’s big, bloated, and clunky?

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I have not been watching recent WWDCs because they are pitifully boring and what is released has lacked innovation for years.

But I think this year will be different. I view it kinda like watching car races. They are boring as can be until there is a crash and burn. I am waiting for Apple's crash and burn event.
 
The Game 161 said:
no it makes sense to use the name which people will use 9 months of the year not 3
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Not just that, people seem to be forgetting that Apple doesn’t make the new operating system the upgrade path for most people until about half-way through December.
When iOS 18 came out last September, the majority of regular consumers that just let their phone auto update actually got iOS 17.7, then 17.7.1 and 17.7.2, before Apple officially made the upgrade path go to 18 during the second week of December when 18.2 dropped.
The vast, vast majority of consumers are not going to see this new upgrade until around Christmas, or even after New Year’s. 26 absolutely makes sense in that context.
Who would want to download the iOS named for 2025 during the last 15 days of 2025? It would make absolutely no sense.
 
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nt5672 said:
Don't you know, they can't. That is why they are putting lipstick and makeup on their software.
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I like the people who say this while completely avoiding the fact that Apple used to give Mac OS X a new design on average once every three years back in the day.
And now we are at a time where we are lucky for Apple to update the interface once a decade.
For reference, Apple changed the user interface in 2001, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2013/14… and outside of Big Sur and some specific tweaks to certain elements, it has pretty much been the same for the last 12 years.
 
klasma said:
What’s the problem? It'll be iOS 100.
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*iOS 101
shogunswb said:
They might as well rename all of them to the same thing.

OS Cockroach Community

The amount of bugs across Mac, iPhone & iPad are unacceptable although Apple will do its normal thing & say that everything is great & its the best OS in the world because lying makes money.
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Can’t say there are many noticeable bugs in iOS or iPadOS for me. But spotlight on the Mac has suddenly stopped showing me apps, rather just random settings and referrals to Safari to search. That’s just irritating. I use spotlight solely to open apps and it’s currently is very broken. Pointless.
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“If an English speaker with AirPods is conversing with someone who is speaking Spanish, the ‌iPhone‌ will detect the audio, translate the speech, and relay it back in English to the AirPods wearer.“

I gotta admit that’s some cool stuff right there. My SO works in an industry where they interact with EASL or total Spanish speakers on a regular basis and this will be a very useful tool.
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…if it works as advertised. Knowing Apple - it won’t be as smooth as it sounds.
 
I've barely been interested in WWDC the last couple years, but this year...well I'll read the highlights tomorrow evening. I can't be bothered to tune-in.
 
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The funny part about numbering macOS 26 is that it is the 26th release of "the NeXTstep-derived Macintosh Operating System."

The "Rhapsody Developer Releases", including ones that ran on Intel, as the first "version."
We had Mac OS X Server 1.0, the "looked like Mac OS 9" server release as the second version.
Then the Developer Previews - third
Then the Public Beta - fourth
Then 10.0 was the first "retail release." - was the fifth version, so for the 10.x, add 5.
More 10.x through 10.15 - so 10.15 was the 20th version.
Then we finally did a "big version change" to 11.0, as the 21st version, so add 10.
Sequoia (the current version) is macOS 15, which is actually the 25th version.
Thus this year's release (Tahoe) will indeed be the 26th version.

Now if only the next iPhone were to be named the "iPhone 19" to match its actual number. (The iPhone 4 was the last one to match its actual release number. The few generations of "S" got us out of sync, although skipping 9 did get us one model number closer to correct.)
 
WarmWinterHat said:
I've barely been interested in WWDC the last couple years, but this year...well I'll read the highlights tomorrow evening. I can't be bothered to tune-in.
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Agreed. I find Cook and Federighi insufferable. Craig may be a brilliant engineer as a former Next employee under Steve, but he never rose above ranks until Forstall was foolishly ousted to please Ives. The results of Federighi in charge have played out. I know it is more complex in organizational structure, but this top heavy titanic needs a toppling and fresh vision. I am actually dreading the look of macOS after tomorrow, because there is nothing that tells me that the current leadership knows how to let each device shine in its own merits, while joining hands where it makes most sense and leaving it separate where it doesn’t. Hubris, and vomit inducing marketing and woke-ness we can all be guaranteed tomorrow. A developer and customer hostile company doing its best sleight of hand.
 
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