Apple’s Year-Based OS Naming Is Perfect . During its WWDC 2025 keynote held on June 9, Apple switched from its old naming ...

It’s no secret that Apple’s operating system version numbering has evolved organically. The company currently maintains seven operating systems with version numbers that begin with four different ...

Google’s mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, has it ever evolved. Here’s a fast-paced tour of Android version highlights from the platform’s birth to present.

Right now, the version numbers don't match up well and can be confusing-for example, iPhones are on iOS 18, but the Apple Watch is on watchOS 12, and Vision Pro is just on visionOS 2.

Apple’s Mac operating system has undergone many sizeable changes over the years. Here’s every version in order, from the first edition in 2000 to the present.

Apple revealed iPadOS 26 instead of iPadOS 19 during WWDC 2025. The name change aligns all of Apple's operating system version numbers for simplicity.

Apple is unifying its operating system naming conventions, moving to a year-based system starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. This change, a ...

As of now, Apple's operating systems are based on version numbers, like iOS 18, MacOS 15, WatchOS 12, and VisionOS 2, with numbers varying depending on when the software initially launched.

The next major release of the iPhone operating system iOS, which is expected in the fall, could therefore not have the version number 19, but 26, which is supposed to stand for 2026. macOS ...

The 3rd-gen Echo Show 5 is running a new operating system with a very low version number of 1.1. This is distinctly different from all other Echo devices with operating system version numbers ...

Mountain Lion, the last of the “big cat” versions of the Mac operating system launched in July 2012 (latest version 10.8.5) and can run on the following Macs: MacBook (Late 2008 to 2010 ...