AtWWDC24last month , Apple unwrap the new features to its operating systems that will ship later this fall . However , applied science is always about moving forward and as Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurmanreports , Apple has “ formally begun work on 2025 ’s major operating systems , ” even before the OSes that the companionship just revealed have n’t shipped yet .
Gurman state that the os that Apple is work on have the postdate code name :
( Notably missing from the list is tvOS 19 , but that does n’t mean that Apple is n’t wreak on it . It in all probability entail Gurman did n’t find out that code name . )
Sometimes codification names have a hidden import . For example , Mac OS System 7.5 wascode - named Capone(presumably referring to gangsterAl Capone ) in response to the code name for Windows 95 , which was Chicago . And often , companies foot a theme for their code public figure , such as colors , diachronic places , or land . But Apple ’s codification names for next year ’s OSes seem random .
But then again maybe not . Apple will belike elaborate on Apple Intelligence features , so maybe there ’s an AI connexion with “ Luck ” and “ Cheer”–they’ll work so well that you ’ll cheer each time you use them , and you ’ll finger lucky to have them ! Discovery , well , that could think of a plenty of things . perchance Apple is going to do a big deal with the Discovery line to make their subject matter a major part of visionOS — or maybe it ’ll have a bunch of features that ’ll make youfeel like you ’re an astronaut !
Nepali for watchOS 12 is interesting because it ’s beenreportedthat Apple use the name calling of beaches for its watchOS computer code names . Lighthouse was the computer code name for watchOS 10 and there are Lighthouse beaches inCaliforniaandFlorida . watchOS 11 ’s code name was Moonstone , and there are a few beach withthesamename . I have n’t been able-bodied to find a beach bring up Nepali , but there’sNapili Beachin Hawaii , though Apple could be referring to Ngapali ( label “ Napally ” ) Beach inMyanmar .
In all sincerity , we just do n’t know what or even if there ’s any meaning behind these computer code name . tie them thematically to their features seems like a possibility , but as Gurman notes , “ It ’s far too early to severalise what the existent lineament will be . ” We ’ll just have to wait until June 2025 to find out .
