iOS 26 is a huge improvement – but there’s one big problem<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>One of the bigger leaks from
Bloomberg is that what we’ve all been anticipating as <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/ios-19/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iOS 19[/url] will instead be branded as
iOS 26 (aka 2026).</p>
<p>In other words, <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] is switching from sequential naming to year-based naming. I think that’s a great idea – but
not the silly car-maker business of using
next year, for a very practical reason …</p>
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iOS 26 is a huge improvement – but there’s one big problem