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Are you ready for macOS Tahoe? That\u2019s supposedly the official marketing term Apple\u2019s picked for macOS 26, the next major update to the Mac operating system.<\/p>\n

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Lake Tahoe in California. Image: Gordon Mac<\/a>\/Unsplash<\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> that Apple will brand macOS 26 as \u201cmacOS Tahoe,\u201d continuing to reference California landmarks in macOS product names. Apple should also rename its operating system around year-based numbering<\/a>, so we will be getting macOS 26 this fall instead of macOS 16.<\/p>\n

macOS Tahoe should ship with one or more wallpapers that will highlight the beauty of the scenic Lake Tahoe and Apple\u2019s rumored glassy design overhaul.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s ready for macOS 26 Tahoe?<\/h2>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019re getting the third significant macOS redesign in the California naming era, and Apple is again looking for something special.\u201d Gurman wrote. \u201cI\u2019m told that the company has homed in on Lake Tahoe as its next moniker, making it macOS Tahoe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a famous resort area and a vacation destination (and second-home site) for many Apple employees,\u201d he added. \u201cThe deep blue lake is also known to show the reflection of the sky and surrounding mountains \u2014 something that flicks at the striking visuals of the new user interface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurman reported earlier that iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 will bring a Vision Pro-inspired overhaul<\/a> of the user interfaces across the iPhone, iPad and Mac, to simplify the way users navigate and control their devices. He later added that the redesign will also include the Apple TV and Apple Watch<\/a> operating systems. The project allegedly marks Apple\u2019s \u201cbiggest-ever software rebranding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s crack product marketing team<\/h2>\n

Apple entrusts software branding to a mysterious group, Apple\u2019s vice president of software engineering chief Craig Federighi joked when he first mentioned Apple\u2019s \u201ccrack product marketing team\u201d at the WWDC 2013.<\/p>\n

Federighi would go on to mention this team occasionally in future WWDCs. In 2014, for example, he joked that the group had embarked on a minibus journey through California\u2019s landmarks to find an an inspiration for the marketing name of the next macOS update, with \u201cOS X Weed\u201d among the proposals.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Apple dispatched the team in their minibus in search of a name for macOS 10.13. They eventually settled on \u201cmacOS High Sierra\u201d (another weed reference) with Federighi joking that they \u201cassured us this name is fully baked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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