At WWDC24 final month, Apple revealed the brand new options to its working methods that may ship later this fall. Nevertheless, expertise is at all times about transferring ahead and as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports, Apple has “formally begun work on 2025’s main working methods,” even earlier than the OSes that the corporate simply revealed haven’t shipped but.
Gurman states that the OSes that Apple is engaged on have the next code names:
- iOS 19/iPadOS 19: Luck
- macOS 16: Cheer
- watchOS 12: Nepali
- visionOS 3: Discovery
(Notably lacking from the listing is tvOS 19, however that doesn’t imply that Apple isn’t engaged on it. It possible means Gurman didn’t discover out that code title.)
Typically code names have a hidden which means. For instance, Mac OS System 7.5 was code-named Capone (presumably referring to gangster Al Capone) in response to the code title for Home windows 95, which was Chicago. And sometimes, corporations choose a theme for his or her code names, similar to colours, historic locations, or nations. However Apple’s code names for subsequent yr’s OSes appear random.
However then once more possibly not Apple will possible develop on Apple Intelligence options, so possibly there’s an AI reference to “Luck” and “Cheer”–they’ll work so properly that you just’ll cheer every time you utilize them, and also you’ll really feel fortunate to have them! Discovery, properly, that would imply numerous issues. Perhaps Apple goes to do a giant take care of the Discovery channel to make their content material a serious a part of visionOS—or possibly it’ll have a bunch of options that’ll make you feel like you’re an astronaut!
Nepali for watchOS 12 is attention-grabbing as a result of it’s been reported that Apple makes use of the names of seashores for its watchOS code names. Lighthouse was the code title for watchOS 10 and there are Lighthouse seashores in California and Florida. watchOS 11’s code title was Moonstone, and there are a number of seashores with the same name. I haven’t been capable of finding a seaside named Napali, however there’s Napili Beach in Hawaii, although Apple could possibly be referring to Ngapali (pronounced “Napally”) Seaside in Myanmar.
In all seriousness, we simply don’t know what or even when there’s any which means behind these code names. Tying them thematically to their options looks as if a risk, however as Gurman notes, “It’s far too early to inform what the precise options might be.” We’ll simply have to attend till June 2025 to search out out.