macOS Emerald to macOS Big Bear: What Will Apple Name macOS 27?

[MadeForRickey]

I'm liking "Big Bear" or "Shasta"

 

[TruthWatcher412]

MacOS Nitt Witt

 

[bluespark]

If they were to name it "Sequoia" and promise a return to the look and feel of that version, they'd hit download numbers like they've never seen before.

 

[atonaldenim]

my money is on Tiburon.

 

[Spishak]

Lake Tahoe to match the Liquid Glass concept

 

[JosephAW]

Maybe Snow Tahoe or Lake Tahoe 🤔

 

[Abydos]

what's wrong with Death Valley , or Bakersfield (although 26 would have been more appropriately named pacific palisades)

 

[gummybear2026]

Lake Lanier

 

[Abydos]

Lake Lanier

I thought lake Lanier was in georgia

 

[Kottu]

Why? I don’t even remember which macOs is installed in my MBP except it is 26.5.

 

[Silencio]

My first thought was macOS Emerald Hill Zone, but Sega beat them to it by a few decades.

 

[maruyama]

Emerald reminds me too much of The Wizard of Oz or Wicked...or the birthstone color. I don't think of the place in California (never heard of it). Is it just me?

If they go this route, I think they will call it Emerald Bay rather than just Emerald for the reasons you outline.

It’s the best candidate, though, both for relationship to Tahoe and the visual branding potential. They can play up verdant greens and blue-green waters in the wallpapers and marketing.

This could also make for an interesting contrast if they go with Redwood next, with lots of warm reds and oranges. They could even make it a trifecta with Blue Lake!

 

[MegaBlue]

The whole "Big Bear" thing doesn't really make any sense. For starters, that's a Twitter/X asset, not an Apple asset. Why would they name it after the marketing name of macOS when the hashmoji itself is for WWDC, not macOS? Why would Apple tell Twitter/X the name of macOS 27 anyways? It makes much more logical sense that "Project Big Bear" is either referring to WWDC itself, or it's the name used when making the hashmoji. Either way, it's not them accidentally leaking macOS's name.

 

[gummybear2026]

I thought lake Lanier was in georgia

The lake is in Georgia.

 

[ColoJD]

macOS Compton?

macOS Bakersfield?

 

[Glideslope]

macOS 27 Stable.

 

[WiseAJ]

Mac OS San Diego Zoo

 

[QuarterSwede]

I like Mac OS Emerald. Since I'm not from the US, I don't know anything related to California and it places so, for me is the same which name ended as the chosen one. But for now, Emerald sounds good.

Also, I would like to see more landscape wallpapers instead those digital ones.. Catalina was the last mac OS to shows a landscape wallpaper by default.

Tahoe shows Lake Tahoe as default …

 

[IvyKing]

Barstow
Tehachapi

The latter is a good place to get looped....

Maybe a better name for MacOS 26 would have been Donner Lake

 

[Adam Henry]

macOS El Cajon

 

[tywebb13]

Maybe Snow Tahoe or Lake Tahoe 🤔

or snowy tahoe

like this for desktop picture

i mean they said it is refinement of tahoe like snow leopard was refinement of leopard

so snowy tahoe makes sense

 

[red elma]

Shasta most likely or Emerald

 

[srbNYC]

OS is Operating System.

iOS is a carryover from iPod.

No, I meant names like Tahoe and such. Why don't iOS versions have names, too? Android used to have dessert names.

 

[conmee]

macOS Tamalpais

 

[Non-Euclidean]

They could call it "We're Sorry".