Apple iOS 19 enters development with next-gen operating systems

Apple has started developing next-generation operating systems including iOS 19, which will be released next year at WWDC25. In his weekly “Power On” newsletter, Bloomberg’s Marg Gurman revealed that Apple is already making this move alongside new hardware devices.

These new products are aimed at next year and the company wants to achieve all of the production and development on time.

Gurman also shared a few alleged in-development codenames for these softwares including iOS 19 as “Luck, macOS 16 “Cheer”, watchOS 12 “Nepali”, and visionOS 3 “Discovery”. Aside from these, no details are available about new features.

At WWDC24, the Cupertino-based company released iOS 18 with increased personalizations. You can now customize the home screen, lock screen, and control center with new options.

The software lets you change the app icon color between light, dark, and tinted. You can also increase the size of the app icons to increase on-screen visibility.

iOS 19

Its redesign control center has rearranged the control groups and separated the quick access buttons to different screens. Users can add more buttons to these control center screens from the new controls gallery. Photos and iMessage also upgraded with improved conversation and media management.

However, the iPhone maker primarily focused on generative AI. It introduced “Apple Intelligence” to simplify app interactions and provide intelligent task handling. The new generative AI capabilities are reflected in Siri voice assistant. It can conduct conversations in natural language and get deeper integration for system apps.

iOS 18 widely inherits AI-generated transcripts across productivity apps. Furthermore, Apple has partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the latest iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to provide better content-writing tools.

Most of these AI features will be optional with iOS 18 and Apple is likely to advance with iOS 19 next year.