Apple ' S Maicos 26 on Apple, but the owners of the old MacBook Proos and IMACS are not able to test The next generation operating system. It will be. Mac based on Intel., in particular, we were told that preliminary versions of MacOS 26 are compatible with the following Mac configurations:
- macbook pro 2019 or later
- macBook Air M1 or later
- Mic or later
- macBook mac or later
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are especially absent on this list, this is the MacBook Pro Models 2018, Intel MacBook Air 2018, 2017, IMAC Pro 2017 and Mac Mini 2018. These are also the oldest cars, officially compatible with Sequuia Macos. Thus, they will most likely lose support in any case.
2019 MacBook Pro Models and 2020 5K IMAC will support IMAC models, however, based on what we were told.
The same sources previously provided accurate details about Sequoia and iOS -ios MacOS and provided us with exclusive details about Apple Blackpearl, Greymatter and Greyparrot projects. They were also right regarding Ajax LLM, Freeform scenes and Apple Clean Up tools, among other things.
We were informed that the first beta developer MacOS 26 will probably have a file size of a little more than 17 GB, which is about 2 GB more than Sequoia MacOS. These observations come from people who have knowledge about preliminary assemblies, although, which means that changes are always possible.
As for the name of the operating system, people familiar with this issue said Appleinsider that MacOS 26 appears as a version number in some parts of the file system. The internal assemblies since May 2025, however, were still used by the MacOS 16 name in certain areas of the operating system, possibly as a filler.
Regardless of the version number, Apple will probably show its usual name of the California place during WWDC 2025. This is MacOS Sequoia today, while MacOS Redwood, Skyline or Diablo are among many trademarks.
We can currently check the existence of the MacOS 26 branding, but it is still unknown whether Apple will make any changes. It is known that Apple is renamed the OS, shows the average development, so the transition to “MacOS 16” is not completely out of the question.
In 2024, the company reprinted the Safari 18 Web Lastik function to “manage the distraction”, possibly due to complaints from the publication of associations. In the same year, the iOS 18 accessibility function, known as the “adaptive labels of the voice”, was renamed “vocal labels” during development.
The next generation of Apple will be disclosed to the public during WWDC, which will begin with the main report on June 9, 2025.
