Apple Inc. is planning the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names, part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices.

That comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who is reporting that Apple wants to switch to year-based names. That means the iPhone software update we were expecting to be called iOS 19 would instead go by iOS 26 — as in 2026. The rest of Apple's software — iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS 26 and visionOS 26 — would follow the same pattern.

A representative for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Bloomberg story cites unnamed sources, who say that the additional updates will take the names