In response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has selected the identify for macOS 26, the upcoming main revision of macOS that the corporate will reveal at WWDC25 subsequent week. Gurman reviews that the identify can be macOS Tahoe, after Lake Tahoe in northern California.
Lake Tahoe is famend for its deep blue water, which Gurman cites as an allusion to the person interface overhaul anticipated within the new macOS. Gurman additionally states that the Tahoe space is “a well-known resort space and a trip vacation spot (and second-home web site) for a lot of Apple staff.” Not said by Gurman, nonetheless, is that Tahoe’s latest tourism progress had made the native residents sad and anxious in regards to the impression on the native surroundings.
Final week, Gurman reported that Apple is unifying the variations of its working methods, utilizing a technique much like automotive producers, the place the upcoming yr identifies the most recent model. Thus, as an alternative of macOS model 16, Apple will undertake model 26.
Not like iOS, iPadOS, and so forth., Apple adopts a reputation for macOS that’s based mostly on a California location. The naming system began in 2013 with macOS Mavericks, which was model 10.9. Previous to that, Apple named the Mac working system after large cats, resembling Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard.
In its advertising of macOS, Apple doesn’t point out the model quantity. For instance, the present OS is known as macOS Sequoia, however its model (which is at present 15.5) is reserved for technical naming. So, whereas macOS 26 will make its debut at WWDC, will probably be referred to all through the keynote as macOS Tahoe, or no matter identify Apple lastly decides upon.
