<ul><li>Apple is transitioning from the traditional iOS and iPadOS version numbering to a year-based naming convention.</li><li>The shift was announced at WWDC25, where Apple revealed that the upcoming releases will be identified as iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 instead of iOS 19 and iPadOS 19.</li><li>The company's decision to unify version numbers across all platforms will also affect macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, which will all adopt the same naming style for the current year.</li><li>This change comes as Apple introduces a unified 'Liquid Glass' design and marks a departure from the naming scheme that has been in place for iOS since its launch in 2007.</li></ul>

Goodbye iOS 19, hello iOS 26: Apple switches to year-based names

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