Among Apple’s slate of software platforms, macOS is an outlier in having its own brand name (e.g., macOS Golden Gate) instead of just a number. But some new signs indicate Apple may be shifting toward number versioning.
Apple is moving support documentation away from macOS version names, plus emphasizing ‘macOS 27’ for Golden Gate
Over the past day, Apple has updated a variety of its Mac-focused support pages to replace macOS version names with version numbers instead.
In several cases, switching to version numbers instead of names is the only change on each page.
Here are a few examples:
