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I'm on Watch OS 11. How did we jump to 26?!
Apple is going by year now to coordinate naming across devices. Not sure why 26 in 2025.
The way I see it iOS and macOS are typically released well into the fall, so it doesn’t make sense to name them 2025 versions when they’ll get the most use and refinement in 2026. Everything else just follows that cadence as secondary systems.
Guessing it's like how car makers release 2026 models in 2025.
Apple sometimes (often? usually?) releases devices and OS updates towards the end of the year to capitalize on holiday shopping, so their logic is probably that this is what they will "start" 2026 with.
Marketing for invited to the dev meetings.
you think the devs ever had a say in what the OSes were actually named?