Apple could be about to retire the iOS name and go back to iPhone OS, according to a new rumour.
The prolific Apple leaker Jon Prosser, of Front Page Tech, reckons the company will go back to the monicker last used for iPhone OS 3 in 2009.
This may be speculative, but given iOS 13 only really applies to the iPhone following the launch of iPadOS in 2019, it wouldn’t be a surprising change.
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Apple’s other operating systems – watchOS, tvOS and macOS – are specifically descriptive so it makes sense that iPhone OS might follow suit.
iPhone OS.
— Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) June 18, 2020
It isn’t long before we’ll find out as Apple takes the virtual state at the WWDC keynote on Tuesday June 22. The company traditionally reveals its in-development operating…
