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The launch of iOS 26 at WWDC 25 – Image Credit: Apple
Apple is already developing its 2027 updates for iOS 28, iPadOS 28, macOS 28, and its other operating systems. This is entirely unsurprising.
As a major operating system producer and hardware manufacturer, it has to work long in advance to perfect its releases. While it has a lengthy schedule for products like the iPhone and Mac lineups, it can take just as long to get software out the door.
In Sunday’s “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman writes that Apple has already kicked off development for the 2027 operating system updates. Indeed, he is told that software engineering teams are at the stage where they develop individual features, apps, and enhancements.
However, at this stage, it has yet to start bringing all of the parts together into cohesive whole operating systems. But, since it has about a year to go before it will show off the product of its work to developers at WWDC 2027, it still has a lot of time to play with.
Gurman adds that the iOS and iPadOS 28 updates have an internal codename of “Bell,” while macOS 28 is referred to as “Poppy.” This has led to employees creating a portmanteau of the two names, referring to the 2027 releases as “Boppy.”
This is not new to the company, as it did the same for the 27 generation. The internal name of iOS and iPadOS 27 was “Rave,” while macOS 27 was known as “Fizz,” resulting in the combination “Rizz.”
Based in South Wales, Malcolm Owen has written about tech since 2012, previously for Electronista and MacNN. His interests include photography, magic tricks, game development, and annoying his cats.
It would be more appropriate to get iOS 26 working 100% since we have to live with it for another year while iOS 27 flounders like all the other software releases.
Hope about instead of firing folks, use them for in house beta testers so the bugs are squashed before the version is released?
The process of ongoing iteration of Apple Silicon and the operating systems that run on the different Apple devices is never ending and quite simply takes more time in comparison to its competition.
I have given this example before but who is responsible for the endless scroll to the right with user interface elements scrolling to the right into infinity, who is responsible for that incredible. Is it good design practice to have software elements scroll to the right seemingly endlessly off the window/screen? It just seems like a major fail in software design when did this become a acceptable solution? Notably in the Apple Music and the Apple Store programs. Wasn’t there someone at Apple, who was famous for saying what’s up with these type of things?
The codename for macOS 26 was Shit.
@malcom Owen – I’m surprised. I mean, are the same people at Apple who code iOS 26 and the future iOS 27 also somehow working on iOS 28? Those same people have time for all of that? So, they are working on iOS to replace iOS that they have not even come out with? Really?
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