What to Expect From macOS 15

[HobeSoundDarryl]

While I wouldnt be shocked if it did I’m expecting 1 or 2 more years, they sold the 2019 Mac Pro through last year, so I suspect we’ll get at least 1 more year of Intel for it (and likely the other 2019 and 2020 last gen Intel machines, if they’re keeping Intel support anyway) to mollify folks who picked up a 7,1 last year

Right. I'm with you on assuming another year. However, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the bulk of new macOS features are not included for the Intel Macs... probably via some kind of spin that "only Silicon can..." In particular, I suspect any A.I. spin is going to get tied into the "machine learning" bits of Silicon. Since the same doesn't exist on Intel, A.I. features probably don't show there... or else a relatively limited subset.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Hope M1 won't be left in the dust

I can definitely see them limiting ai features to m2 nay m3

 

[Luposian]

give me a toggle for genie, that's all I'm asking for ...

as for the name: Modesto

My friend, Dennis Travis (RIP; he died on Dec. 28, 2023 @ 74 yrs. old) would've loved that name, as he lived there.

 

[Harry Haller]

Bakersfield.

 

[loby]

Likely MacOS Mammoth if it's the biggest update ever.

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My guess is macOS Sequoia

Though adding “a little” AI into the OS, my guess that if Apple is going to use Mammoth, than it would probably be 2025’s update that may include more developed AI and probably a conversion to a total iOS interface.

Not a fan of macOS becoming more like iOS, but that is what it looks like the direction of macOS for the future.

I prefer the separate OS concept for macOS where you have the ability to customize and configure etc., but like the world’s movement to “do everything for me without any effort from me” type of life, I see the trend with AI and the OS’s too.

MacOS Mammoth is probably reserved for a very “big” change. What is currently rumored about macOS seems like “minor” updates still.

 

[F23]

macOS Goodmorning! pls

 

[Hildy]

How about AI bug fixing? Sure would be nice to be able to use macOS to play songs on shuffle from a Music playlist to AirPlay speakers without it completely soiling itself. On the California theme: macOS Hell Hole

 

[loby]

Imagine in 2025 Apple announces….

We have found our own OS to be more efficient, more reliable, and way more creative than any human employee.

Tim will be replaced by this from the past….

 

[topmounter]

When in doubt, just add a little 'AI' mumbo-jumbo and make a serious face.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I like the idea of ai laying waste to the workforce and shaking the global economy upside down and restructuring society to suit the personal desires of tech CEO’s (who obviously know what’s best for everyone or they wouldn’t be rich) & all that, but I wonder if we’d really be seeing ai creep in to Mac OS if it weren’t for needing to have an answer for the biggest loudmouth in the next shareholder meeting who demands to know how apple will be keeping up in the ai race.

 

[castlema]

How about MacOS 15 Porn Valley?

 

[Shasterball]

If the stock market is one I'll be falling on my face.

Speaking of typos I find the new improved autocomplete to be less improved than the previous version. What I expect from the next iteration of the OS is more emojis and more bugs. Especially if they are going to inject DIE infested Augmented Idiocy into the system.

I sat out Ventura, I may be sitting out the next one too.

By the way, MacOS Führerbunker does have a certain ring to it, but may be more appropriate for a server.

Well crap. It autocorrected to the wrong word. Solid....lol

 

[azentropy]

MacOS 15 Compton

 

[azentropy]

macOS 15 will most likely drop Intel support

One more Intel release I think although I won’t be surprised if many of the new features (AI related) are AS only.

 

[Harvey Zoltan]

On a purely superficial level I would love to see a redesign of the App icons that finally gave them all a unified look. Currently they are all over the place style wise.

 

[lysingur]

Since Tim Cook and Craig Federighi aren't exactly known for their originality, my money is on macOS Redwood.

 

[maxoakland]

I don’t want AI features. I want refined software and an improved UI fixing all the weirdness like the System Settings mess and the awkward cramped toolbar/title bar thing

 

[eldho]

I would expect Apple to tell us when it issues the last MacOS that will support Intel in order to give people fair warning that the next one won't. That would be very basic good customer relations.

 

[coolfactor]

I just hope and pray that macOS doesn't lose its open Unix foundation.

Apple may neglect keeping open-source libraries updated, but we can easily install overriding libraries using MacPorts, or Homebrew.

 

[Populus]

The whole California name thing is getting boring now. I know it's because that's where Apple is from but they need to change it. We've had more Californian names than big cat names.

I like the code names Nvidia use for their GPU architectures based on scientists. I think macOS Lovelace / Ampere / Volta would sound cool. If Apple done this, which they won't, it'd fit in based on their focus of AI (I assume lol)

Or maybe just macOS 15. Yea it is boring, but that’s what they do with all their other operating systems.

 

[coolfactor]

macOS TimCook has a ring to it.

 

[mikul]

MacOS major releases are no different from their minor releases. Apple used to offer UI improvements and new ways to use your Mac, but now a big change is vague AI improvement from a company that hasn't been able to make Siri be anything but an annoyance. They've had bugs like being unable to add a location to non-iCloud calendars for over 4 years. This article has to spend half of it length talking about the name because there's nothing of consequence in the release.

 

[Chuckeee]

Name

Since 2013, Apple has been using California landmark names for the Mac operating system, and there's no sign that's going to change. Apple has trademarked several names over the last decade, and some of the possibilities that have yet to be used include Redwood, Grizzly, Sequoia, Mammoth, Pacific, Rincon, Farallon, Miramar, Condor, Diablo, and Shasta.

One on the other California landmark names that Apple did trademark but was not included in the MR list is: Salton Sea. This is an ongoing ecological & economic California disaster. Apple has moved away from including Salton Sea in their potential naming lists but it is embarrassing that Salton Sea was ever considered as a candidate name.

 

[kagharaht]

Just one release focused on BUG FIXES like Snow Leopard. No new features or Emoji. Just fix the bugs. lol

 

[ohthehorror]

A working MacOS with no bugs

Are you really serious. Name one sophisticated OS that’s big free. Come on, get real.