Apple launches iPhone 17 with iOS 26 instead of iOS 19

Great surprise awaits us at this year’s WWDC edition where Apple was expected to show for the first time iOS 19. However, instead, apple It will show iOS 26, which should come out in the fall, along with the iPhone 17.And what the unexpected move of the company has to share in the saving lines.

Between June 9 and 13 this year, the annual WWDC edition will be held, where Apple will share with us all the most interesting related to the development of its operating systems, and not only. For the next generation of iOS, we already knew that it would introduce synchronization of public Wi-Fi data between our devices, and that it would eventually make ESIM transfer to Android more intuitive.

However, the thing we did not expect that it would not be called iOS 19. According to Mark Gurman informationApple will completely change the names of its operating systems to avoid confusion on the part of its users.

Therefore, the iOS 19 will be called iOS 26, MacOS 16 becomes MacOS 26, and the iPados 19 passes the name iPados 26. The other operating systems of the technology giant Watchos 12, TVOS 19 and Visionos 3 will also use the number 26. Thus, the entire ecosystem and branding will acquire much more homogeneous.

We will see the changes and innovations in the aforementioned software platforms in less than two weeks, and their introduction in widespread operation should happen this fall.